"Ninety percent of this game is half mental." --attributed to Yogi Berra; Sports Illustrated, May 1979.
A of couple sporting events, namely the UFC 250 and the Grand Prix 250, were on display in the nation's capital for the celebration of the US's 250th birthday. But neither was one of the big sports. So it's time 😉😉 to bring the 2026 World Series to the DC Mall. 
[For the sake of the literalistic Google web crawlers who determine what can be ranked on their search engine, I must say plainly that this is parody. I could do this through hidden meta code, which would involve figuring out a whole lot more code than I want to take time doing. Since I don't run this through another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) service because I make no money off this blog, and those services cost money, AND because I like to openly snark at the AI taking over so many things, here you have it...
This might also help gullible humans who stumble onto my blog to understand that this is not a literal post. There is no baseball diamond being built on the National Mall. Also, if you struggle with that concept, then you should probably be made aware that the National Mall is not a brick and mortar facility housing a lot of retail stores. It's a grassy area in Washington DC which fronts a lot of important sites and buildings. If my whole blog were satire, spoof, and parody, I could meta code satire once for the whole blog. But why be stuck like a record needle in a scratch, doing just one thing? Now that's introducing a whole new figure of speech completely unrelated to baseball. This aside gives me a chance to express yet again that AI doesn't really "understand" figures of speech. With enough of our linguistics fed into Generative AI, the models can follow along and reflect something back, fooling some humans into thinking the models "understand" figures of speech. But none of them do. Long live humans and our non-literalistic speech!]
Here are some overhead "photos" of a World Series baseball diamond on the DC mall. [Don't worry, hidden text accompanying these pictorial uploads explains to the web crawlers what these images are all about-- and how they came to be.]
Baseball was once called America's past time. This is the perfect sport to suggest, and we need something to pick up the 250 lull. October will be great timing for this. (I thought about suggesting football 🏈🏈🏈-- the Army 🪖-Navy ⚓ game specifically. I decided against that. Though football has surpassed baseball as our national sport in many ways, the recent findings on how much brain damage occurs in the NFL have some wondering if football has peaked and will gradually decline in importance. Maybe the dreaded soccer ⚽⚽⚽ [everyone else's "football"] will become our national sport after we hosted the World Cup.)
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