A cauldron of political activity and protest, a venue for gender politics discourse and a theater for civil disobedience.

Obviously, I could only be talking about our baseball stadium.

The past few days at Nationals Park certainly featured much more than some mediocre baseball. The stadium is normally a fairly harmonious place (well, when the Phillies aren’t in town, at least) that normally doesn’t find itself the setting for protests regarding immigration legislation. But sure enough, three dozen protesters set up camp at the stadium yesterday in opposition to Arizona’s controversial immigration law. The 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to take place in Phoenix, and there seems to be a small, if determined movement to get MLB to move the location to another city.

Of course, whether disorganized attempts to unfurl illegible banners on the field of play does anything to promote that cause is debatable.

Perhaps if they were protesting in favor of running around in circles, it may have been effective.

Oh, but there was so much more!