Stephen Strasburg, Va.?

[JackReacher]

www.renamestrasburg.com

So apparently, my hometown is willing to change its name if The Man makes an appearance sometime between now and the end of the year.

Pretty funny.

Edit: Deadspin has also picked up on this...

http://deadspin.com/5555518/town-offers-to-rename-itself-stephen-strasburg

 

[JackReacher]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-renamingstrasburg

Apparently, if The Man visits sometime during the town's 250th anniversary in 2011, they'll rename the town for a day or a week. Not as asinine as I once thought. Might help to have come clarifying statements like that on the awful web site.

 

[Care Bear]

I am actually 10 miles away from Strasburg, VA as I type this. I'm moving there. This is awesome.

 

[JackReacher]

You're going to live in Strasburg? Not Winchester or another "way better than Strasburg" town nearby?

 

[Care Bear]

You're going to live in Strasburg? Not Winchester or another "way better than Strasburg" town nearby?

Listen, I'm about to live in a house in the middle of who-the-****-knows-where-I-am. Waldo couldn't find it. Magellan couldn't find it. I am about to be surrounded by wildlife that I can't even begin to imagine. No ****, we were driving down the street yesterday, and I turned to the BF and said, "watch out for that cat." And he said, "that's not a cat." I don't know what the **** it was, but it was brown and it had a tail, and it scurried. ****'s going down.

 

[JackReacher]

That'll happen.

 

[Mark2010]

Have had close encounters with deer in the middle of city streets and parking lots in the wee hours of the morning more than once in the last year.

 

[Moderator1]

I've been where she's going. The Nats better not let Strasburg go to them there parts. He'll become a meal for some of that wildlife.

 

[YGBFKM]

I've been where she's going. The Nats better not let Strasburg go to them there parts. He'll become a meal for some of that wildlife.

My dogs are bad, but not THAT bad.

 

[JackReacher]

The most stunning part of the story wasn't that they'd rename the town if The Man visited. It was that the population was listed as 6,200. When I lived there not that long ago, it hovered around 3,500.

 

[Moderator1]

Once you left, people felt it was OK to return.

 

[joe king]

I was compiling our baseball notes last night and was considering using this, but the wire story didn't make any sense. It said the town of Strasburg, Va., had offered to name itself after Stephen Strasburg. To which I said: Big deal. Isn't it already named after him? The story never said the name would actually change to "Stephen Strasburg, Va."

 

[JackReacher]

Once you left, people felt it was OK to return.

Ain't that the truth. (says the guy wearing not one, but TWO, Nationals hats)