For the final game of the Nationals’ “Patriotic Series” Wednesday at Nationals Park, the racing presidents wore their patriotic blue jerseys and stopped along the first base line to pass out flags to the crowd. Abe Lincoln, who had been trailing the pack, snuck by his fellow presidents and stole his third straight win. With … Continue reading Video: Presidents pass out flags, Abe sneaks by FTW
Apparently, Abe Lincoln will do just about anything to keep Teddy Roosevelt from clinching his first presidents race championship. With just eight home games to go, “Honest” Abe couldn’t afford to let Teddy win more than one more race. Yet as the fourth inning contest began Tuesday night, Lincoln sat on a chair and let … Continue reading Video: George Washington conspires to help Abe Lincoln steal victory from Teddy Roosevelt
In a race that Washington Nationals color commentator F.P. Santangelo called a “three in the morning job,” the Nats’ racing presidents tripped and pushed each other through an epic shoving match in which everyone participated. On Monday night, not even the sponsor GEICO Gecko escaped the dirt. Despite face planting twice, it was Abe Lincoln … Continue reading GIF: Presidents race melee keeps Lincoln’s hopes alive
It was not Teddy’s finest hour. In the first presidents race after the All Star break, Teddy Roosevelt came out swinging Friday night at Nationals Park, turning on his fellow presidents before they even finished coming out of the centerfield gate. The Rough Rider shoved George Washington to the ground, but failed to down his … Continue reading Video: Teddy goes after George Washington, who returns the favor
For the first time since August, 2012, the Washington Nationals took a home game to the 13th inning Monday night, triggering a rare treat for presidents race fans: a bonus presidents race. Earlier in the evening, Teddy Roosevelt had clobbered Abe Lincoln to gain a spot in the season standings. In race #2, Teddy’s compatriots … Continue reading Video: Teddy wins historic 2nd presidents race in one night
The Nationals presidents race season is turning into an unlikely battle between perennial contender Abraham Lincoln and longtime loser Teddy Roosevelt. During the current homestand, Abe had extended his lead over the hero of San Juan Hill to four games, but when “Honest” Abe got too cocky Monday night at Nationals Park, the Bull Moose … Continue reading Video: Teddy Roosevelt Clobbers Showboating Abe Lincoln
Running the wrong way seemed to help the team on Friday night, so on Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park, the racing presidents took off toward the third base side again, but as was the case in the game vs. the Cardinals, things got ugly quickly. Teddy Roosevelt had an early lead, but as the presidents … Continue reading GIF: George slams Teddy into the visitor’s bullpen fence
Nationals racing president Abraham Lincoln has been on a tear recently, riding a four game winning streak into Friday night’s presidents race at Nationals Park. But Teddy Roosevelt brought a new character onto the field to disrupt Abe’s rhythm. As the fourth inning race began, Roosevelt was in front of the bullpen with a new … Continue reading Teddy’s sicks his pet moose “Bullee” on the competition, punches Mr. Met
Blame the team. Blame Twitter. But the seven year conspiracy against Teddy Roosevelt seems to have been resurrected. The Washington Nationals’ struggles have prompted hundreds of Tweets tallying the team’s total record since letting Teddy win at the end of last season, with some even calling it “the curse of Let Teddy Win.” After suffering … Continue reading Video: Nats get superstitious, reverse presidents race direction and put a stop to Teddy victories
The recent Washington Nationals homestand was characterized both by an offensive explosion on the field and a cheating explosion in the Nats’ fourth inning presidents race. During the fourth inning Sunday at Nationals Park, the week of presidential cheating reached a crescendo, with everybody getting into the act as presidents fell like dominoes. George Washington … Continue reading Chain reaction of presidents race cheating leaves George Washington Standing
A week of non-stop presidents race cheating continued this weekend at Nationals Park, with William Howard Taft taking a few lessons from long-time cheater Abe Lincoln. On Friday night, “Honest” Abe returned to old form, emerging from the bullpen to plow into Teddy Roosevelt mid-race. As Teddy tried to recover, Taft and Jefferson each piled … Continue reading Videos: Abe Lincoln returns to his cheating ways, and Taft takes notes
The cheating is getting out of hand in the Nationals presidents race, and if that sounds like nothing new, the difference vs. previous years is that now even Teddy isn’t getting disqualified. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Nationals Park, Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft escalated their 100 year-old war, taking each other out … Continue reading Videos: Taft competes with Teddy for Twitter followers, Abe slams him with a folding chair, and more
After dominating the first month of the season, Nats racing presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have watched rivals Abe, Bill, and Teddy pick up some recent late-May momentum. But on a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park, they decided they’d had enough. Jefferson set up a diversion at the starting gate, sending Abe, Bill, … Continue reading Video: Jefferson diverts the other presidents as Washington waltzes to victory
The recent spate of violence and cheating in the Nationals’ presidents race escalated Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park as Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and George Washington all got into the act. Thomas Jefferson took an early lead, but Abe Lincoln put a quick end to that by head butting the Sage of Monticello on the … Continue reading Video: Taft notches his first-ever presidents race victory, beating Teddy at the wire
“Honest” Abe Lincoln returned to familiar territory Friday night at Nationals Park, disrupting and otherwise clean race with dirty tricks directed at the winless Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Lincoln sat out the race, but emerged from the bullpen to put a body slam on Teddy and Bill to knock them out of contention. … Continue reading Video: Abe Lincoln brings back the dirty tricks, George wins photo finish
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