Now you all know that beginning next Thursday this space will be filled by the Shorebird of the Week, but the MiLB website showed a little love to our community by featuring it as one of the three stops on a D.C. area baseball roadtrip earlier this week.
Perhaps the best line in the story concerning Delmarva is that the Shorebirds are “(t)he peninsula region’s baseball team of choice.” Considering the next closest teams are either Bowie, Wilmington, or Norfolk one has to suppose that we really don’t have a lot of choice. (It’s worth wondering if there would’ve been interest in an independent league team had the Shorebirds not relocated here in 1996. Before that, our region would’ve definitely qualified as underserved.)
And like the story says, it’s nice to consider something besides politics when discussing our nation’s capital.
