D5 — as in the fifth page of Section D. Section D is the Sports section of the Washington Post. Page five of said section is where I found the Associated Press story about Dallas Braden’s perfect game several days ago. And what was on the front page of the Washington Post sports section? A story about a track meet in Philadelphia — which was held last month. On the website the perfect game story was listed 16th — that is, the Post considered it the sixteenth most important sport’s story of the day. Dallas Braden’s perfect game was listed lower than “NCAA lacrosse,” “Redskins Insider” . . . and the “Chat Schedule.” Way to go Post.
To put things in perspective, there have been 19 perfect games in the last 130 years of baseball. That’s one perfect game, on average, every six and a half years. Put another way, there are (on average), thousands of games between each perfect game. So a perfect game is a very rare occurrence; to say the least. You would think it would be worth it for Post sports reporters to conclude that it’s worth making a big deal about Dallas Braden’s gem.
This will always be a football town; that’s understood. But this is also supposed to be a great sports town. But you’d never know it from the Post.
