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According to the reports coming in from Twitter, many of you are very excited that today is opening day. Happy holiday, baseball fans! However, some of you appear to be confused about what this means or how you should celebrate it. Perhaps you have not rescued your Nationals jersey (or your White Sox jersey, or your Angels jersey, etc.) from the depths of the closet yet. It’s really no reason to wear a football jerz to a baseball game.

And wearing a Redskins McNabb jersey like the one spotted by @cnichols14 especially confuses the issue. First, wrong sport. Second, everyone at the Nats-Phillies game is going to think, for one split second, “wrong team.” Third, it really is the wrong team. Donovan McNabb is a player whom this Cowboys fan truly respects, but the Redskins won’t play half their the season before the total lack of offensive line results in some crushing injury. Whomever Washington drafts for McNabb to groom won’t fare much better, since it will be years before the Redskins have the draft picks to bulk up the offensive line. McNabb has missed 17 games, or more than an entire football season, over the last 5 years. The only people in Washington who believe that McNabb has another 5 seasons left in him are the people wearing Phillies jerseys at the ballpark today. Put McNabb and Washington’s aging backs together and you’ve got quorum for a D.C. meeting of AARP.

The rush to embrace this deal . . . oh, wait. It’s baseball’s opening day. I understand President Obama’s going to throw out the first pitch?