The headline at FanIQ says it all: "The Marlins Beat The Natinals Last Night. No, That's Not A Spelling Error."

You would think that a town as adept at adding 0s to dollar figures as Washington is, the town that is after all the Capital of the United States, wouldn't leave the O out of the word "National."

But there it is. Given today's media culture, it won't surprise me to see O Magazine take up the cause to bring back the O in national. Sniggering news anchors (over the age of 30) will be intoning: "Next up from our White House Bureau, the story of O. And we don't mean Obama."

This typo could start a trend that might inject some fun back into the Natinal Passtime.

Instead of the Kansas City Royals, some sheik from Dubai might buy the team and call it the Ryals. The Detroit Tigers, always near the bottom, could become the Detroit Tiers. The Florida Marlins will move to Northern California and become the Marins. Seattle's team will enlist and become the Marines.

The Phillies are already kind of obnoxious, so let's typo them down to Pillies. Across the Keystone State, the Pittsburgh team will only complain about becoming the Prates, though they won't have anything on the Texas Ragers. San Diego will trim down its roster to the Pares.

The NL's pennant hungry New York Team - the Ets, of course. Baltimore gets an extra base on a spelling error with its Orioes. And speaking of compound errors, Atlanta's Bras are looking for a little support.

As for the rest of MLB, I'll leave it up to you to mangle baseball metaphors and typos. For now, I'm taking my ball and going home.