Fenty Goes Tea Party: Good thing for former Mayor Adrian Fenty no one watches Morning Joe—otherwise, most of the goodwill he still had among liberal D.C. voters who backed him last year would have evaporated, when he went on MSNBC to declare he agrees with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's drive to end collective bargaining for government workers. Fenty's new gig as a paid speaker on education reform will surely benefit from the press—"He's a Democrat and he's anti-union!"—but the appearance wasn't generally a highlight of his career. He also weighed in on whether Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich should run for the GOP's presidential nomination, because, you know, he's an expert political strategist. -1

Free Parking: Sure, city officials are riding around in government-paid luxury cars, but at least they've got to pay for their own parking or get a ticket, just like the rest of us. Wait, what? Never mind. Turns out top bureaucrats have racked up more than $2,500 in tickets and moving violation fines, and just left them unpaid. The good news: Cutting the budget deficit may just involve taking the keys away. The bad news: There are a lot of keys to take away. -2

Direct to Cuba: Flying out of Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport instead of Reagan National Airport is sometimes a hassle—getting halfway to Baltimore isn't quite as easy as hopping on the Metro from downtown. But soon, the reward for a haul up the BW Parkway (or the Metro bus from Greenbelt) could be some authentic Havana Club. Federal officials say BWI will be allowed to operate charter flights to Cuba. Bonus: You won't have to fly Southwest to get there. +2

Can't Spell "Final" Without "Quarterfinal": RFK Stadium was considered so outmoded that the committee trying to get the 2022 World Cup to the United States didn't include it in its bid. But the crumbling palace on East Capitol Street will host international soccer this summer nonetheless; the schedule released today by organizers of the Gold Cup, the North and Central American soccer championship, has the path to the final coming through D.C. If the U.S. finishes first or second in its group, the Yanks will play here. And since the group also includes powerhouses like Canada, Panama, and Guadeloupe, if the U.S. doesn't play here, there's trouble. +2

Yesterday's Needle rating: 41 Today's score: +1 Today's Needle rating: 42

Don't throw your rabbit ears away just yet, soccer fans. At least not until the CONCACAF Gold Cup is over.

I watched last night's USA/Honduras match in glorious analog, complete with an old-school non-digital antenna hooked up and pointing skyward.

The match was broadcast live from RFK on WMDO-47, an over-the-air Spanish station that is part of the Miami-based Telefutura network, itself a subsidiary of everybody's favorite telenovela source, Univision.

If you've got the lowest tier cable TV, you wouldn't have been able to watch the game, since WMDO (like the Anglo Fox Soccer Channel, which is also showing some Gold Cup games) isn't in every package.

But if you've got no cable, like those of us now forced to live on a budget, you could cheer our boys on.

The supposed drop-dead date for analog TV in the U.S. was June 12, when the federally mandated switch to digital kicked in. Apparently something got lost in translation, because not only is WMDO still clogging up the airwaves with analog signals, but the station doesn't even offer viewers a digital option.

"There shouldn't be any analog stations out there anymore, except for maybe a high school or college station," says "Joanne" of the FCC's Digital TV Hotline out of Niagara Falls. "Everybody's supposed to be transitioned to digital by now. Our map of DC isn't showing any more analogs."

Well, then, City Desk readers, please promise not to spill the beans on WMDO to the Feds! Not for a few more weeks! Because I plan on adjusting the rabbit ears and trying not to poke myself in the eye all over again tomorrow night for the El Salvador/Jamaica game, and again July 23 when my Gold Cup TV schedule tells me WMDO will be broadcasting both Gold Cup semifinal matches.

It'll be just between us!

Turns out Manuel Zelaya WILL be in DC tomorrow. That's when the Honduras national team, which Zelaya used to control before his military gave him a red card and booted him out of the country, will face the US squad in a CONCACAF Gold Cup game at RFK.

Zelaya flew out of here on Sunday, headed for the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. But the folks who deposed him blocked the runways at the airport there. So Zelaya had to reroute to neighboring Nicaragua.

Now, AP is reporting that Zelaya is coming back to DC to meet with Hillary Clinton, to try to get the U.S. to put more pressure on his deposers to let him back in his home country.

I'm no Condoleezza Rice, but, as proposed in this very space last week, I'd advise Hillary to advise Zelaya to get his butt into a good seat opposite the TV cameras at RFK tomorrow night, to show the folks down south that El Presidente is backing the boys on enemy turf as they face Los Yanquies. (Sure, I learned whatever Spanish I know from listening to Los Lobos, so I have no idea if anybody down there calls Zelaya "El Presidente" or us "Los Yanquies." But tell me it doesn't sound right!)

Then after the game, Zelaya can board the team plane and head back to Honduras. Nobody's gonna block that runway!

Brilliant! I mean, um, fantastico!