Bill Simmons’s latest podcast from Indianapolis featured the NFL Network’s Michael Lombardi and longtime D.C. sports fan Joe House. It also featured this dialog:

Lombardi: If you’re the Redskins, do you wait for Peyton Manning or hope Peyton Manning comes around, or do you do what they’re planning on doing, which is to sign Kyle Orton and let him be the starting quarterback?

House: You didn’t just say that.

Lombardi: Yes I did. I worked that in there.

House: You just took a knife out of your pocket and jammed it into my kidneys.

Lombardi: I’m sorry, but that was the Senior Bowl chatter.

Hey, here’s a nice little Groundhog Day story on A1 of The Washington Post. Don’t say we don’t cover the important stuff any more.

Wait, what’s that little image on that little hat worn by the man in the second picture? A man elected by D.C. voters, posing in front of a camera owned by the biggest paper in town? Surely not? Couldn’t be?

“Can someone explain the Steelers hat worn by a DC official on the front page of the Post this morning???” someone wrote to me on Twitter early Friday morning.

Well, it’s Mike Silverstein, who appears to be a longtime Pittsburgh resident and Steelers fan of some fame, who actually writes about the team for sports blogs and stuff. And his role in D.C. as an ANC commissioner possibly doesn’t require allegiance to every Washington sports team. I guess.

(Tracy A. Woodward) Just another day in wicked pixels. First Metro’s J. Freedom du Lac penned a 1,500-word piece on the market for Wizards tickets. Then Ted Leonsis responded with 700 words of his own, combining praise and thanks for Wizards ticket holders with a defense of the team’s rebuilding process and a few choice words about the media.

(John McDonnell - The Washington Post) Visits from the Phillies in recent years have meant quotes from the home clubhouse about getting booed at home — “You wish they were cheering for you,” Michael Morse said last August. They’ve meant disgusted asides from media members — “It’s a good thing (for me) that I’m not 18 again and going to ballgames with three of my old D.C. street-ball buddies,” Thomas Boswell once wrote — and unsightly photographs of row after row filled with Philadelphia t-shirts and jerseys.

The visits have brought e-mails and phone calls from D.C. fans who say they now avoid going to Nats games when the Phillies are in town, and self-congratulatory gloating from Philadelphia fans about Citizens Bank Park South. And above all, they’re brought laments about Stan Kasten’s long-ago radio homage to Washington’s rivals, in which he invited those fans to fill up Nationals Park.

I hated it. You hated it. Boswell hated it. Jayson Werth hated it. And now, the people who run the Nationals are trying to make a change.

“Frankly, I was tired of seeing it,” Nats COO Andy Feffer told me this week. “Forget you, Philly. This is our park, this is our town, these are our fans, and it’s our time right now.”

Which is why, starting Friday morning at 8 a.m., the club will begin selling single-game tickets for just a single weekend series: May 4-6, against the Phillies. These tickets will remain on sale for a full month before the rest of single-game tickets go on sale. And they’ll be available only to buyers with a credit card tied to an address in Maryland, the District or Virginia.

(Haraz Ghanbari - AP) I haven’t been to a Georgetown game in at least a year, so maybe I missed the time when students started bringing the giant cut-out head of Bill Clinton.