We make jokes about a brother in our house being spacey. Like there's a map of the U.S. in the house, and everyone has a flag to signify their hometown; we added a picture of Mars and moved his flag there. When Time Magazine ran a piece about sending a manned mission to the Red Planet, we jokingly congratulated him for making the cover in his space suit.
And then today, he sent the following link. He's from Northern Virginia (It's more Northern than the rest of Virginia, he's been known to tell people.), which makes this even funnier.
"McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Whether life exists on Mars is an endless source of speculation. But if there is life, and if those life forms can hit a curveball, then northern Virginia has dibs on their Little Leaguers.
That's because Little League Baseball this year granted its northern Virginia district jurisdiction over the planet.
District Administrator Michael Pobat wanted a theme this year as northern Virginia prepares to host the annual state tournament, whose champion competes for the right to represent the United States in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.
He thought a Martian theme might be a way to get kids excited about science and technology, so he petitioned Little League to annex the planet into the northern Virginia district, which serves about 5,000 boys and girls on teams in the Washington suburbs of Arlington, Alexandria and northern Fairfax County."
( an excerpt from http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/baseball/mlb/04/25/bc.bbo.littleleague.mar.ap/index.html?cnn=yes)
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