The Season has begun winding down with less than a month left. (The regular portion of the season officially ends on September 26, 2004.)
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Poetics @ Mothers
Presidents @ Warriors
More 2004 Cosmic Games...
Richard Burton
Thomas Howie
Prozac
Alice de Forest Sedgwick
UpperLeague
Dharma Beats Alphatown Ionians Vestal Virgins Washington Presidents Wonderland Warriors
Delta Dragons Bolex Poetics Bigtopia Barnumstormers Motherland Mothers New Ceutical City Pharmers
News Plate Redesigned
CBA's News & Information plate was redesigned by a team of designers from the design firm of Dinaco Associates. Lead designer Veronica Zarman and her team spent four months working on the new design.Home Run Derby Roadblock
The Washington Presidents, who have likely secured a near bottom spot in the Upperleague (they are tied in the standings for last place at the moment) have indicated they might not make outfielder George W. Bush available for the Presidential Home Run Derby sponsored by the Cosmic Baseball
Association. The contest was to pit Bush against Senator John F. Kerry to see who could hit the most home runs.There is nothing to compel the Presidents to make a player available for the derby which takes place every four years (2000 Derby). The 2004 derby was to begin October 18 and continue through election day. Typically the derby winner wins the Presidential general election in the United States.
Amanda Blue, Assistant Executive Director of the Cosmic Baseball Association said that the CBA might approach Richard Cheney and John Edwards to see if they might be interested in a derby contest. The status of Cheney is, at the moment, problematic, according to Ms. Blue. However, Blue also said, that the Bush-Kerry derby was not completely out of the question. "We have sent negotiators into each camp to discuss the situation."
Top management people in the Presidents' front office have been whispering that Chester Arthur or James Polk might be deactivated after the 2004 season. (Both Arthur and Polk are having miserable seasons; but so is Abraham Lincoln and no one whispers about deactivating him.) Others around the club believe the team needs fresh blood at shortstop. John Tyler has fielded poorly this season and his poor batting average (it is consistently below .225) hasn't helped things out. Backup shortstop James Buchanan isn't providing much at the plate either.
Could Kerry come to the team as a shortstop? The problem is that there isn't much of an historical record indicating which position best suits the 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate. At 6'4" he should be a pitcher. While taller shortstops became the vogue with Cal Ripken, Kerry might just be too tall for the position. However, what the Presidents do not need is a no arm pitcher.
Political election prognosticators may want to balance their polls with this information. What are the chances of John Kerry getting elected if there isn't a clear place for him on the Presidents' roster? Baseball scouts, real and imagined, will tell
On the other hand, Senator Kerry's flabbergasting knowledge of reality baseball may mitigate his physical shortcomings. The Boston baseball writer Peter Gammons has floated a questionable rumor that has Kerry telling radio sports talk show host Eddie Andelman that Johnny Yost was Kerry's favorite Red Sox player. Yost, who mostly played for the defunct Washington Senators never played, (he coached) for the Red Sox. But some have speculated that Gammons, who was an adolescent sports rival of Kerry's, might be launching a personal and ad hominem attack on the Senator.
If John Kerry makes it on to the Presidents' roster, it will be because the team needs some fresh blood to help pull it out of the Upperleague's basement.
Baseball in Washington, D.C.
Not everyone in Washington, D.C. wants a new baseball stadium to be built in their front or back yards. The Southwester newspaper, published for the citizens in the greater Southwest area of the District and with a stated circulation of 10,000 is worried that a new stadium will devour the area.
But the Washington Post, in an editorial published on August 18 puts forth reasons it would be good if baseball returned to the nation's capital.
The good of baseball is Bud Selig's paramount consideration as commissioner, and if he keeps that goal foremost as he considers what's to be done with the failing Montreal Expos, the decision is simple: Move the team to Washington. None of the other contending cities is even close, in terms of population, income or interest in the game...This is a city that's been aching for baseball for a long time, and it's ready to support the game
Do the Presidents Want Kerry?
If the Washington Presidents want a pitcher, then John Kerry may not be the man for the job. This observation is based on Kerry's audition for the team prior to a game at Fenway Park on Sunday, July 25. Kerry threw a pitch to Spec. Will Pumyea, 23, a military police officer in the Massachusetts National Guard from Woburn, who had just returned from Iraq and who also had previously served in Afghanistan. But Kerry's pitch to the plate fell short. 
you, there is something called karma that comes into play when you evaluate the potential success of a rookie in a baseball league. The Presidents aren't doing well on the cosmic baseball field this year, despite having won 117 games last season and the Cosmic Universal Series. Why the dramatic downturn? Pitching woes, most pundits observe. Bill Clinton was the last rookie pitcher drafted by the team. Is it time for a new pitcher? And is John Kerry, junior senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, qualified for the position? His audition at venerable Fenway Park in July creates doubt.
