This Time, Your Vote Might Count

There is a tragedy in this year’s This Year In Baseball Awards, and it is that Sal Fasano’s incredible play of throwing the ball directly into the ground is not up for the award.

But we all know that Sal will win the award in spirit, and there’s a chance to turn this baseball award show into something incredible. On a game that started at 11:05 and pretty much knocked the Phillies out of the playoffs, two baseball writers — Dennis Deitch of the Delco Times and Ken Mandel of Phillies.com — got to run in the President’s Race.

The race features four presidents with giant heads who, uh, race around the baseball field. (Like the sausage race in Milwaukee, if you will.) And Ken Mandel, dressed as Thomas Jefferson, managed to fall, becoming the first person in the short history of the race to fall.

This is up for blooper of the year. I don’t usually do much activism here, but this is something you can effect: Your vote might actually count. The other bloopers suck anyway. Vote for Thomas Jefferson’s fall. Not doing so would just be un-American.

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