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My wonderful wife showed me this story this morning: Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090415/lf_nm_life/us_usa_civilrights_baseball;_ylt=Aqd_qRmbM1UvuqQJA8qu4y4LMxIF) reported that a man was ejected from Yankee stadium during the August 26th (Yankees vs. Red Sox) game’s God Bless America song. He attempted to go to the bathroom, but stadium police did not allow this. The police did say that he was being unruly, smelled of alcohol, and they ejected him so others wouldn’t have to be subject to his behavior, however, as per Yahoo, an officer also said “if the [ejected fan] didn’t like this country, he should get out of ‘it’”. If true, this statment alone makes this story horrendous and absolutely despicable, and I don’t think I’ve ever actually written the word despicable down to explain anything.

I hope nothing like this ever happens again. It is unconstitutional – in state, in basketball, in school, and in baseball.

On a related (religious) and very funny note: I think it was last year on April 16th, a 14 or 15 inning game against the Washington Nationals- I’ve never seen so much religion in one AT-BAT. Jesus Colome of the Washington Nationals was pithing to Jesus Flores. Angel Pagan of the New York Mets was on 2nd base. Ryan Church was up at bat. Who won the game? It was a walk-off Base on Balls by none other than SHAWN GREEN – just kidding – it was Brian Schneider…Sounds Jewish though. haha.

Even though the Nationals are filled with talented outfielders, Manager Manny Acta already made up his mind and appointed Lastings Milledge as the regular center fielder.

Last season was a good year for Milledge; playing everyday in the big league, hitting .268 along with 14 home runs and 61 RBIs.
“We have a center fielder. Lastings played the whole season there last year,” Acta said.

Acta and the rest of his coaching staff must now decide on who will be designated as left and right fielders: Adam Dunn, Elijah Dukes, Austin Kearns and Josh Willingham are potential candidates to play the said positions.

Adam Dunn earlier this week inked a two-year $20 million contract, will now be playing each and every day, although he could find himself playing first base. That is if Nick Johnson is not in good shape, or is traded elsewhere.

Constantly healing due to serious injuries, Dukes, Kearns and Willingham are expected to be in their best shape when exhibition season starts.
“We are going to have six weeks of Spring Training,” general manager Jim Bowden said.

“We are going to look at the health of all our players. I don’t think you can determine that in early March. I think it’s going to be late March before you can determine how healthy they are.

No. 2, you have to look at the performance of players beyond the health. Third is a trade option. Do we have an opportunity to make a deal and make our team better? Certainly, we have depth.”