Ted's Take

Mark Lerner was kind and invited me for a walking tour of the new Washington Nationals stadium. It is going to be a spectacular new place to see baseball come next Opening Day. The sight lines are great; the pitch of the stadium is very friendly; and the acoustics and lighting will be very much appreciated by fans.

 The seats are all perfected to be dead aimed at home plate. They are wide and of blue color. The concourses are huge as are the bathrooms. The scoreboard and screens will be world class and the new locker room is simply amazing. I have never seen anything as big and comfortable for the players in my career in sports.  The main walk-up area is going to be one of a kind too with shops, murals, statues and a good bit of nostalgia wrapped in a modern twist. The eating establishments look to be comfortable and everything is first class. All the materials seem to be worked in together to make for a very nice and unique Nationals motif. I can

Go to Mahalo.com and type in Alex Ovechkin. I am impressed at the very good, hand crafted results. The folks at Mahalo are doing very good work on key search terms. The results for Ovechkin would be very helpful to a Caps fan.

Interact with this one - very spooky and catchy.

Jack Davies and Steve Case were talking about this cool site called Pitchfork but I had never visited it. They are cooler than me because this is a very hip music site. Ironically, I stayed up late and watched Spoon on SNL. I thought they were a very good young band.

New hip and all, Mark moved on to the next round and he is using his blog and his interactive groups on Facebook to generate votes for his cause. I am friends with Mark on Facebook and what he is doing is very clever. I always said that the Internet would win a candidate an election; I just never thought it would be Mark Cuban on "Dancing with the Stars".  :-)  Go Mark, Go!