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I'd checked the Billboard list before and my song is Teddy Bear by Elvis. So I was confused when this one came up with Tammy by Debbie Reynolds. Wiki says Tammy was #1 on Cashbox, Teddy Bear on Billboard. So I'm a bit less confused now. But that won't last...

Pictures are wonderful. Love the cow! On one of our longer trips to the city, we took the ferry over to Staten Island and walked around the stadium. It's very nice. Unfortunately, the team wasn't home that week so we still haven't gone to a game there.

Because he looked like a blow-up sex doll in them? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/08/28/nationals-arent-giving-away-those-crazy-jayson-werth-walk-off-bobbleheads-after-all/ I really want one...

N A T S Nats Nats Nats Woooooooo Thus ends my Natitude for this season :-) This voucher will look fabulous on my shelf!

Damn. I was looking forward to getting that one. I'd heard it was awful... Still looking for cheapish tickets to both games on StubHub. Maybe now they'll be cheaper for Sunday.

Aim, I think the people I'm going to the game with will want the Coolidge 'head, but if one of them doesn't, I'll send it to you! Lantern7, StubHub works both ways. If you buy a ticket to the last game now and can't go, I'll bet you could at least make your money back. Also, if you wake up Saturday and want to go, you might be able to get a cheaper ticket at the last minute for the Orosco 'head. I've always had a soft spot for Jesse because there were several years near the end of his career where he was the only active player older than me :-) As for Schilling, I can't say anything nice, so I won't say anything...

Yes. Yes. And yes!! I always like to go to the last game of the season, no matter how bad the season was. I'm obsessively checking StubHub now for the last 2 bobblehead games at Nats Park - Jason Werth and Calvin Coolidge. Bonus is the Coolidge 'head is against the O's.

So, thanks O's. I won't have to spend a boatload of money on postseason tickets this fall. Sigh...

Thanks much Aim. The team doesn't seem to be doing anything to make me feel better tonight... Fun thing at the O's game Sunday - the A's had a position player come in to pitch at the end and the O's left the pitcher in to hit. That so rarely happens in the AL due to the unloved DH. That was a fun game.

I wasn't there tonight - thanks O's for not winning for me on my birthday! - but any fans would have to be better behaved than the Yankee fans at away stadiums. Even the Saux fans aren't as...intrusive... and they're not great. I tried to behave in Seattle last week. And I haven't forgotten that you asked about why the stadium was lovely. It's got wide concourses, the people are friendly, the food is good, the beer is fabulous, they even have a wine bar! And a fireplace for when it gets cold! One of the nicer stadiums. We only have 4 more to go.

All about Josh Charles. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/07/josh-charles-his-diverse-career-roles I must say, this is longer than the feature in the actual magazine. Although the picture from Sports Night isn't on the web article.

Do it! Totally worth it!! :-)

Back from Seattle. A really lovely stadium with great food and fabulous beer! And I got to see the one game the O's won. Yay...

We're off to Seattle today to see some baseball! Yes, that's why I take vacations - to see baseball :-) Tomorrow is Jamie Moyer bobblehead day, and Monday the O's come in. So it worked out nicely. We have 4 or 5 more of the "new" stadiums to hit before we've seen them all - original and new. It's helpful to have vacation goals.

Now that you say that...I think it's her tone of voice/line reading that makes me stabby... :-)

This commercial makes me want to stab both of the women who are not Rashida Jones. (apologies if this has been posted already - I looked but didn't find it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwWMlJwqUMM And one more from a competitor - a commercial from Xfinity where the man has arrived at the woman's house and she goes out for a moment, so he tunes into her TV and finds that she's been watching things about murder. This one also makes me stabby. Fortunately, I can't find a video for it.

Tonight's totally adorable 'head giveaway: Oh, and the O's won the game!

Sally Jenkins wrote a pretty good column today http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/the-nfls-basic-due-process-is-the-real-issue-in-the-deflategate-controversy/2015/07/30/ebda3b02-3666-11e5-9d0f-7865a67390ee_story.html

Yeah. HTS became CSN. Peter Angelos started MASN in 2005. Some of the O's game are also broadcast on WJZ and some of the Nats game on WUSA, mostly on weekends.

We here in the DC/Baltimore area (The Capital of the Free World ) get 2 MASN channels that show the O's and the Nats. When they aren't playing, they mostly go to ESPNews. There are various baseball talk shows during the season - I think I mentioned my favorite part of Wall to Wall Baseball (the O's show) is when they read the weekly Mars Grocery circulars on the air. It's brilliant... We also have a CSN network which shows the Caps and Les Boulez. And...other stuff.

I was truly puzzled at Colin Quinn last night...especially after reading this about what he had to say about Jerry Seinfeld http://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/colin_quinn_wont_concede_to_fox_friends_repeated_demands_he_say_political_correctness_has_ruined_society/ Especially this part “Look,” Quinn said, “people still have a sense of humor, but it depends on where you’re coming from. You can’t just [throw your hands in the air] and say, ‘it’s just jokes,’ because it’s not a free pass.” And yet it sounded like he was saying "it's just jokes" and throwing his hands up in the air. He was really, as LADreamr said, all over the map.

No such thing...

I just saw a new (to me) DirecTV ad with Tony Romo doing a Rob Lowe-like thing. He's a Great QB with DirecTV. He's a bald artsy guy with cable. I will never, ever, ever get DirecTV.

Sourdough fuckboy is a fabulous modifier! I can't stand the guy. I hope this puts a real damper on his Fox Sports career. Each team can decide which dugout to use. Per Wiki (and it is never wrong!), there are 12 teams currently using the third base dugout at home. The O's used the third base side way back in Memorial Stadium, but when they moved downtown, they went over to first.

How about Around the Horn and PTI? That's what I'd do.