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“I think my whole life has been leading up to this,” said Eileen, a 31-year-old schoolteacher from Alexandria, Va. “I walked around my college campus as a crash test dummy telling people not to drink and drive; I’ve been the Chick-fil-A cow and my school’s panther mascot. As the cow, I got my tail pulled a lot but knew exactly how to deal with it. I’m so ready for this.”—"Nationals' Racing Presidents Tryout No Laughing Matter," NYT
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posted by Ed Park @ 8:09 PM
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The racing presidents are one of the great joys of baseball. I remember once marveling with friends at a race we were watching during a televised Nationals game that found the presidents staying perfectly in character: Washington was running in stately fashion, Jefferson was sprinting in unsustainable bursts, Lincoln was loping along behind . . . and TR was flat-out cheating, so focused on the goal that he cut across the diamond! (Not that TR was the sort to cheat, mind you; just that he was ultra-competitive.)
The sausage race in Milwaukee is the king of this sort of entertainment, but the presidents are a wonderful addition.
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