“But it’s not his cell phone number, but rather his home phone,” he explained at the time. “I call him often. But Putin is never at home. So far I haven’t managed to talk to him yet!”

Ernie Grunfeld, of course, also had some jewelry on hand during that 2010 win.

“It’s something I got from my father when I was about six years old,” he told Comcast SportsNet’s Chris Miller then. “It’s actually just a basketball [charm], or a ball in general.”

Most notably, the famed Oriole is giving the edge to the Nats this season in the Nationals vs. Orioles debate.

“FYI #Broncos, the 12th Man belongs to Texas A&M,” the school’s vice president for marketing and communications wrote in January, when the Broncos had the nerve to deploy a “12th Man” flag before a playoff game. “We saw the flag today and will defend our trademark.”

“I live in an apartment building with two of my buddies. The one, like me, loves Harper. The other is an O's fan and cannot stand him. Well his birthday is coming up and we decided to give him a present. We aren't supposed to paint our walls living in an apartment but that's exactly what we decided to do. So Friday while he was at work we came up with the Harper mural attached in the email and painted it while he was at work. Let's just say he was pretty surprised when he came home.  He didn't even get too upset because it was priceless.”

Even though Payne made every attempt to woo potential dunkers by appearing shirtless, former D.C. United forward Jaime Moreno raised the most amount of money of all dunkees. Payne came in second and DC101’s Greg Roche came in third, despite some obvious trolling in a Sounders FC jersey.

Neither is it a secret that Mike Shanahan is a Republican supporter; he has a long history with the Bush family, for example.

“This is the greatest day of my life,” one fan wrote then. “When I first typed that I meant it as hyperbole, but now I’m not so sure.”

State law allows the MVA to deny tags that have a scatological or sexual meaning; use curse words, epithets or obscenities; carry a “fraudulent or deceptive purpose” (FBI and CIA are banned); refer to illegal acts (sorry, no HEROIN or KILLALL) or convey messages about a group’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

Because there’s a stat for everything, there’s a stat for home-run trot time, and Harper is dominating. His 16.35-second round trip on Saturday afternoon is the fastest time in baseball this season. In fact, it was the fastest non-inside-the-park home run trot in MLB since July 4 of 2010.