Granted the Orioles are not yet a “good” team, but there is some hope on the horizon, in the form of some refreshing young talent. There is also the shining example of exactly how bad it can really get, and it is very conveniently located just down the road from us in a town which has always been smug about its supposed superiority to Baltimore. It is therapy and schadenfreude all in one package, and its name is the Washington Nationals.
Exactly how bad it really is in the city where I now work, as opposed to my “home” city of Baltimore, was brought home in no uncertain terms today. The Examiner, a franchised daily, flogged the Nationals on the very front page of its local edition today in a full page ad. Ryan Zimmerman, the Nats’ talented (and quite lonely in that respect) 3rd baseman, was in the ad. The other two figures shown, and I am absolutely not kidding when I say this, were the Nats’ eagle-headed costumed mascot, and…the guy who cruises around in a Segway between innings, firing t-shirts into the crowd with a compressed air cannon.
That was it. Literally. Those were the selling points for professional baseball in the nation’s capital. Oh, and the mascot was in the middle, and was portrayed the largest of the three – the obvious main draw. I hope I didn’t drool from my mouth gaping like that when I saw it and realized they were trying to sell tickets for the team.
Whew. Thank God I’m a country boy, indeed.
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