Tales from Limbo

The game ended in one of those losses that make you say: "wow, that team lost."  After this, I took it over to the PR Workroom, my head draped a giveaway tee-shirt, and took a nap. When a fellow intern came in and saw this, he yelled "fire" moments into my nap and thus, I was awake.

Got dinner, not bad.

Then we watched videos on the internet of the Preakness Porta-Potty races, like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKI28jjrCz4&feature=related

And now the game. Daniel "Denial Cabrera" Cabrera gave up two walks and a hit, but somehow the Nats made it through the first; on top of that, we scored in the first! Ayyy.

Since the Nats game against the Phils on April 15th, Jackie Robinson Day got the usual rainout treatment, they made today the double-header. So the second game, this one, is Jackie Robinson Day. They played a video and gave out buttons with "42" on them, and that's about it. Also, every player on the field wears a jersey that has #42 on the back. This will come in handy later.

So I get to thinking about Jerseys, when my boss Bill points out to me that someone sitting below the Pressbox is wearing a Stephen Strasburg Nats Jersey, with no. 5 on the back. Strasburg is probably the best pitching prospect of the last twenty years, and none other than the Washington Nationals have the first pick of the MLB draft. It's just a little piece of awesome, because he's a symbol of a brighter future for this ball club, which needs all the help it can get.

I sat back and smiled, and then someone in the crowd shouted, "let's go, 42!" Only a few people got it and laughed, me one of them.

Denial gets out of another inning without giving up a run.  What the hell is going on?