Barb’s Burblings

Ever wonder what it would be like to dress up as one of those mascots who run races during baseball games? In Pittsburgh they have pierogi races and in Milwaukee it’s sausages (which once involved a cruel attack by a Pirates first baseman); at RFK for Nats games, Tom Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt careen around the field. And a Baltimore Sun report got to be Lincoln one day. It…didn’t go well: “…I do feel bad for the Nationals’ bosses, who had no idea I’d be a worse performer than the ballplayers on their payroll.”