Late edit: Bob Ehrlich will also be at the local GOP Victory Center (the old Hollywood Video) from 3 to 4 today.
It seems like baseball and campaigning go hand in hand. Last night at the Shorebirds game State’s Attorney candidate W. Seth Mitchell went the sack race route to get in front of the crowd (yes, Kim got video and I will upload it for the next FNV) and today it’s Bob Ehrlich’s turn as he will throw out the first pitch for this evening’s 5:05 contest and hang around with supporters for awhile afterward.
Meanwhile, fellow Republican challenger Brian Murphy continues his “Refuse to Settle” tour on the Eastern Shore today with appearances in Easton, Eden (at the Bordeleau Winery at 3:30), and the Ocean City boardwalk this evening. Tomorrow he’ll be in Cambridge meeting with local homeschoolers, attend the final Shorebirds game (2:05 tomorrow afternoon) and wrap up in Ocean City again by jamming with Johnny Bling at M.R. Ducks. (See, it pays to have a nicely detailed events calendar.)
For his part, Martin O’Malley will be walking in Labor Day parades in Greenbelt and Gaithersburg tomorrow. Nothing like shoring up the base when you don’t have significant opposition in your primary.
These visits should make for an interesting subplot for the conclusion of an otherwise mediocre Shorebirds season. Right now the Shorebirds are playing only to avoid losing 80 games for the first time since 1999 (that team was 58-80 and currently we are 59-79.) Of course, longtime Shorebirds fans know the very next year we went from worst to first by winning the 2000 SAL pennant. Perhaps Maryland Republicans will go from bitter losses in 2006 and 2008 to success this time around.
