That was, of course, a misnomer. No one was getting castrated on this day. It was just a bunch of baseball fans, gathered on their lunch breaks or whatnot to cut the head off a rubber chicken.

The Stephen Strasburg post-game Hot Stuff revelation on Tuesday obscured at least several other weird things that happened. There was some sort of pre-game incident involving the guy who was supposed to throw out the first pitch, and there was some poor fielding in the top of the first, and there was also this, via Kilgore:

Harper got to sit cageside at Patriot Center for Tuesday night’s “UFC on Fuel” fights and get his picture taken with Playboy Playmate Brittney Palmer. It’s good to be Bryce Harper.

I couldn’t find it.

But while looking, and in between cursing, I stumbled upon a column by Bob Addie that ran in the Sports section 45 years ago this week. The Nats were 12-11 at the time, which doesn’t seem like much, but it was enough to prompt the headline “Nats Generating Enthusiasm,” and prose like this.

Kenya's minibus taxis, known as matatus — the country’s main form of public transport — are renowned for their dangerous driving, blaring out music at deafening volumes and their elaborate, graffiti-style artwork, often based on leading footballers, singers or film stars.

1) His time around the bases was clocked at 17.07 seconds, making it the second-fastest trot in the big leagues this season.

2) Bob Carpenter’s call included this line: “and several more hundred to follow, we hope.” Keeping expectations down.

Thanks to this tweet from Chris Littman, we now know that RGIII’s draft day socks are for sale for $15 through the adidas Web site. There are other colors available for $13, which apparently puts the value of an RGIII endorsement at $1 per sock.