Go Skins Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 [url="http://blog.letteddywin.com/2012/06/16/video-teddys-two-attempts-to-win-aboard-a-motorcycle/"]http://blog.letteddywin.com/2012/06/16/video-teddys-two-attempts-to-win-aboard-a-motorcycle/[/url] Read the blog for more info, but the reason this was run twice is because the Nats game went 14 innings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 http://blog.letteddywin.com/2012/06/17/thomas-jefferson-cheats-presidents-race/ The Nationals’ conspiracy against Teddy Roosevelt was on full display Sunday at Nationals Park, as Thomas Jefferson flaunted the rules to steal a race from our favorite president, yet avoided disqualification. Over the years, it’s been president #16 Abe Lincoln who has built up a reputation for cheating, but something got into Jefferson Sunday, as the Sage of Monticello went on a rampage, first slamming George Washington into the outfield wall, then pushing aside Abe Lincoln in the corner. That left only Roosevelt to beat, and the crowd roared with anticipation as Teddy surged ahead in the home stretch, but just before the finish line, Jefferson reached out and shoved Teddy to the ground. There was nothing subtle about it, yet Screech declared Jefferson the winner. The double standard was not lost on MASN play-by-play announcer Bob Carpenter. “I think we should find out why Screech did not disqualify Tom Jefferson,” he said on the broadcast, “because Teddy, in my opinion, won that race. Inquiry!” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted August 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/seriously-nats-its-time-for-teddy-to-win/2012/08/03/935239f4-da5b-11e1-a3f5-b4e7667a8298_story.html In the long history of organized sports, no team or individual at the collegiate or professional level has ever lost 500 times in a row. Not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who lost 26 consecutive games from 1976 to 1977, a National Football League record. Not the Long Island University women’s basketball team, which dropped 58 straight to set an NCAA Division I record in the 1980s. Not the Sydney University rugby league team (42 successive losses from 1934 to 1936), the City College of New York lacrosse team (92 in a row, ending in 1988), tennis pro Vincent Spadea (a record 21 straight losing matches in 1999-2000) or pitcher Anthony Young (an all-time worst 27 straight starts without a win for the 1992-93 New York Mets). In fact, the only contender to come remotely close was the Caltech men’s basketball team (possible slogan: “not recruited for our height”), which lost 310 consecutive NCAA Division III conference games over 26 years, before rallying to beat Occidental College 46-45 in February 2011. But if one current streak continues, history of the wrong kind will be made midway through the fourth inning at Nationals Park on Aug. 18, when the world will witness perhaps the first competitor in a professional sports arena to lose for the 500th consecutive time. It’s not exactly how you want to get on [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/those-guys-have-all-the-fun-on-espn-by-james-andrew-miller-and-tom-shales/2011/05/26/AGzTPLIH_story.html"]“SportsCenter”[/url] — but that’s the fate that awaits “Racing President” Teddy Roosevelt if nothing is done to propel him to victory when [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals"]the Nationals[/url] return home from a 10-gameroad trip. As a season-ticket holder since the day the team moved from Montreal to Washington in 2005, I can’t for the life of me understand why the first-place Nationals still want their most popular on-field attraction — beyond the team, of course — to personify losing. Maybe the streak fit when the Nats were losing 100 games a season, as they did in 2008 and 2009. But for a winning team with the best young talent in baseball, the streak feels as outdated as the Orioles fans who still shout “O!” during the national anthem at Nats games. At Nationals Park, they call it “the main event.” Halfway through the fourth inning of every home game, four giant-headed mascots — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt — are shown “racing” through the District on the video scoreboard. A door in center field opens, and the contest turns live, with the Racing Presidents usually dashing along the right field wall, turning at the corner and sprinting to a finish line behind first base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted August 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 500th straight loss: [url="http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/capital-games/Teddys-500th-Presidents-Race-Loss--166684266.html"]http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/capital-games/Teddys-500th-Presidents-Race-Loss--166684266.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted September 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 And now it is a national story: [url="http://blog.letteddywin.com/2012/09/14/espns-e60-teddy-roosevelt-presidents-race/"]http://blog.letteddywin.com/2012/09/14/espns-e60-teddy-roosevelt-presidents-race/[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Teddy Wins!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted October 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 The video of how it happened is here. [url="http://www.masnsports.com/index_medialounge.php?show_id=1192160&p"]http://www.masnsport...ow_id=1192160[/url]= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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