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Sunday, April 15, 2007
BABY EAGLE MASCOT IN THE COAL MINE You can't tell from here, but apparently interest was sufficient for me to go ahead and upload the video of Screech, the Nationals' baby eagle mascot, dancing atop the dugout. I really did hear from one individual who was curious to see it, but the real reason I bothered was just to experiment with the Brightcove player: But if you're a YouTube purist, fear not: I have uploaded it to Skynet-upon-the-Columbia, where you can view it at any time until Google becomes self-aware and launches missiles on our targets in Russia (aren't they our friends now?). P.S. This post brought to you almost entirely by Google software. Labels: Columbia River, Google, Screech, Skynet, Washington Nationals, YouTube Saturday, April 07, 2007
THE NATS, ABE & ME On Thursday night I made my first pilgrimage to RFK Stadium to catch the Washington Nationals' 328th game overall, the fourth outing of their second season. It was also the coldest baseball game I have ever seen. It was 75°+ earlier in the week, but the Washington area has been just supra-freezing for a couple days now (in fact, there is snow on the ground as I type this). And beer does not, as I tried to convince myself, warm you up. The game itself wasn't all that bad, even if we did give up at the end of the eighth inning — it was a school night after all, and we were correct to assume the Nats would go on to lose by a single run. But before then we took in a decent (if incomplete) comeback, and most important of all, I got my picture taken with Honest Abe:  Alas, he did not win the evening's costume race (this night's honor went to Tom Jefferson), but he did win the race to be featured in a short video of him lumbering up the steps between sections 220 and 221: I also have footage of Screech, the Nationals' baby eagle mascot, dancing on the dugout roof like... well, like Dancin' Homer. If interest proves sufficient, I can upload that, too. Labels: Abraham Lincoln, Screech, Washington Nationals |
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