{"id":3680,"date":"2008-10-27T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/10\/one-thing-the-nats-dont-need-to-fix.html"},"modified":"2008-10-27T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:28:00","slug":"one-thing-the-nats-dont-need-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/10\/one-thing-the-nats-dont-need-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"One thing the Nats don&#8217;t need to fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this monrth, I talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/10\/fixing-nats-marketing.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">poor marketing of the Nationals<\/span><\/a>. This week, I will note that the Nats market one thing very well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wfyurasko\/229594817\/\" title=\"The Presidents of the United States of America by wfyurasko, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/60\/229594817_d3d1515a98.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"The Presidents of the United States of America\" \/><\/a><br \/><center><font size=\"1\">Teddy Roosevelt and friends<\/font><\/center><br \/>Teddy!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Teddy ran in the Marine Corps Marathon and <a href=\"http:\/\/nats320.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/and-he-didnt-finish-last.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">did not even finish last<\/span><\/a>. Tonight, he is celebrating his birthday at Hudson (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.letteddywin.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">LetTeddyWin.com<\/span><\/a> has the details, but is down right now). For all of the missteps involve in marketing the Nationals, regardless of who owned them, embracing the Teddy mascot from the President&#8217;s Race has been a success.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WashingtonNationals\" rel=\"tag\">Washington Nationals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/nats\" rel=\"tag\">Nats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/TeddyRoosevelt\" rel=\"tag\">Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/presidentsrace\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this monrth, I talked about the poor marketing of the Nationals. This week, I will note that the Nats market one thing very well: Teddy Roosevelt and friendsTeddy! Yesterday, Teddy ran in the Marine Corps Marathon and did not even finish last. Tonight, he is celebrating his birthday at Hudson (LetTeddyWin.com has the details, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsmlb-2008"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One thing the Nats don&#039;t need to fix - William F. 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