Interested In Being A Racing President? (Video)

Feb 14, 2013 By Lee Hernly in MLB, news, sports, video No Comments Tags: abraham lincoln, george washington, nationals park, Presidents Race, racing presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, thomas jefferson, washington nationals, William Howard Taft

The Washington Nationals are hosting tryouts/auditions next week for the 2013 Racing Presidents. If you go, I hope you fare better than the person in the Jefferson costume in the video above.

The Washington Nationals are looking for a few people to suit up with the team.

The Nationals don’t need players. They’re looking for people who want to portray the team’s costumed presidents who have raced against one another in the fourth inning since 2006.

Applications are due by Feb. 20. Auditions are March 2.

The team’s mascots started out as the four presidents found on Mount Rushmore: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Last season Roosevelt won the fourth-inning race for the first time. The team said in January that a William Howard Taft will join the race this season.

Potential mascots have to be able to run from center field to home plate in 40 seconds and wear a 45 pound costume for several hours.

Personally, I’m interested to see how fast William Howard Taft can run considering he was a pretty big guy like me.

Nats’ Presidents to Race to Mount Rushmore (washington.cbslocal.com)
William Howard Taft will be fifth president in races at Nationals Park (wjla.com)
CSN: Nationals add Taft to Presidents’ race (csnwashington.com)

Remembering Stan Musial (Video)

Jan 20, 2013 By Lee Hernly in MLB, sports, tv, video No Comments Tags: espn, National League, st louis cardinals, Stan Musial

Great piece from Karl Ravich on ESPN about Stan ‘The Man’ Musial, one of the great hitters in baseball history, who passed away yesterday at 92.

Stan “The Man” Musial Passes Away at Age 92 (fox2now.com)
Baseball Great Stan ‘The Man’ Musial Dead at 92 (fox4kc.com)
Baseball great Stan ‘The Man’ Musial dies at 92 (cnn.com)

R.I.P. Earl Weaver (Video)

Jan 19, 2013 By Lee Hernly in MLB, sports No Comments Tags: baltimore orioles, baseball, earl weaver, manager, umpires

Sad news that Earl Weaver, the longtime Baltimore Orioles manager, passed away last night. Earl was once of the best managers in baseball and one of the most volatile.

One of my most favorite Earl Weaver moments was when the Orioles were wronged by an umpire, Earl argued and got tossed and in the course of the argument, Earl went back into the dugout, grabbed the rule book, and walked behind the umpire he was having the argument with tearing the rule book into pieces.

One of Earl’s arguments with Bill Haller has been saved on YouTube (CAUTION: Graphic language). Here’s one of Earl’s last interviews with WNST on the 2012 Orioles.

In any case, it’s comforting to know that Earl is finally safe at home.