{"id":410,"date":"2012-10-08T20:43:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-10-08T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T00:49:43","slug":"of-pierogies-sausages-seafood-hot-dogs-and-a-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"OF PIEROGIES, SAUSAGES, SEAFOOD, HOT DOGS–AND A CHICKEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Column-inches devoted to the Washington Nationals have spilled over into the Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s \u201cOutlook\u201d section in the Sunday paper, where senior editor Marc Fisher skewered the Nationals\u2019 front office for letting Teddy win his first presidents race last week. \u201cIn doing so, the Nationals committed a colossal marketing blunder and demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between baseball and football\u2014and a tragic misreading of what it means to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, OK then.<\/p>\n

But Fisher was not finished. \u201cThe presidents now become just one more collection of mascots racing around the warning track, no different from Pittsburgh\u2019s pierogies, Milwaukee\u2019s sausages, Miami\u2019s sea creatures, or the hot dogs in Cleveland and Kansas City.\u201d \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I take issue with the characterization of the racing presidents as mascots. I was under the impression that the Nationals\u2019 mascot was an oversized avian who answered to the name of Screech.<\/p>\n

Having cheered on Teddy many times, undoubtedly part of the enjoyment derived from the double entendre of hectoring a posthumous president to \u201crun\u201d: in a presidential-election year the pleas took on\u00a0a piquant potency. Nonetheless, another part of the fun was also the foreknowledge that Teddy was not going to finish first, because Teddy never finished first.\u00a0 In that sense, I concede that something was lost when Teddy won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Column-inches devoted to the Washington Nationals have spilled over into the Washington Post\u2019s \u201cOutlook\u201d section in the Sunday paper, where senior editor Marc Fisher skewered the Nationals\u2019 front office for letting Teddy win his first presidents race last week. \u201cIn doing so, the Nationals committed a colossal marketing blunder and demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding … Continue reading OF PIEROGIES, SAUSAGES, SEAFOOD, HOT DOGS–AND A CHICKEN?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}