Where's The Over-Sized Baseball, Nats?

The Nationals' new stadium is beautiful and has received great reviews. But FederalBaseball asks "where's the huge twirly baseball?"

Take a look at this 3D rendering of Nationals Park below. First of all, what's with the red sky? Are they expecting a plague this summer? They're rendering plagues for 3D baseball stadium blueprints now? Those are questionable flying skies for that blimp up there. But the important thing to notice in this picture, once you've gotten over the imminent death of D.C.'s first born, is that slightly over-sized baseball out in left-center field.

Here's a reverse angle 3D shot (I love video games):


Now here's a real life picture. NO BIG BASEBALL.

There's no official word from the Nationals as to why the baseball was not included. My guess though? It looked retarded. You can't just start traditions like that. The big apple at Shea stadium is cool because it has been there as long as most Mets fans can remember. Somebody should notify the Astros. Having a flag pole and a hill in center field is something that should happen by accident... you know, if it was there before they built the stadium and they had no way to level it... ? No. There's just simply no excuse for it. A career is going to be ended (see: torn ACL/MCL) on that hill one of these days.