strasburg replacement accidentally scorns miss iowa, then sends her flowers

oh, and the miss iowa pageant invited batista to be a judge, and connors and a different miss iowa want to throw out the first pitch at a nationals game – an idea that big league stew says can’t miss (we agree). it’s nice to see a story where someone could conceivably get offended, but instead everyone just decides to have some fun.

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miss iowa would like to see miguel batista in a swimsuit.

miss iowa to throw first pitch friday - nats insider

will miss iowa get the "batista on strasmas" treatment?

“imagine if you go to see miss universe, then you end up having miss iowa, you might get those kind of boos,” batista said. “but it’s okay. they have to understand that as an organization we have to make sure that the kid is fine. you don’t want to expose him out there and screw up his future.”

nationals enquirer has the round-up. if only batista wasn’t going to be busy pitching in the playoffs for the nats, maybe he could accept the invitation to judge the miss iowa pageant in october.

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