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AP Source: MLB's Manfred Plans to Give DC '18 All-Star Game
AP via The New York Times ^
| APRIL 5, 2015, 1:06 P.M. E.D.T.
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 04/05/2015 4:00:56 PM PDT by TBP
Just a link, but the article says that Major League Baseball has decided to award the 2018 All-Star Game to Washington, DC.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: 2018; allstargame; dc; washington
This will be DC's fifth (the last was in 1969) and the first for "the franchise" since the Montreal Expos hosted it in 1982. it will also be the fourth National League park in a row, following Cincinnati this year, San Diego in 2016, and Miami in 2017.
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posted on
04/05/2015 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: TBP
President Cruz tossing out the first pitch would be a nice picture.
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posted on
04/05/2015 4:07:14 PM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: bleach
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posted on
04/05/2015 4:07:31 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: TBP
I haven’t watched Baseball since one of the Strikes in the late 80’s or early 90’s ,LOL
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posted on
04/05/2015 4:14:46 PM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: molson209
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posted on
04/05/2015 4:25:14 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(Article V. If not now, when?)
To: bleach
And Vice President Sarah Palin behind the dish catching the throw? Works for me!!
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:08:55 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: bobby.223
I’d like to be that umpire. :)
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: bleach
Same here! Heck, I’d be happy just being anywhere in the same Baseball stadium as Sarah!!
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:37:48 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: TBP
The Baltimore Orioles have themselves to blame for not solving their issues with MASN, which resulted in MLB NOT awarding the All-Star Game to Baltimore's Camden Yards.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:27:27 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: RayChuang88
Nationals Park opened in 2008. It’s well past time that the Nationals got the game.
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posted on
04/07/2015 8:38:36 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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