NBC4 tours the stadium, too
Prompted, I am quite sure, by the stunning photos posted on Dave’s Midlife Blog two days ago, NBC4, the local NBC owned-and-operated TV station, took a crew into the stadium site to photograph its...
View ArticleAnimated video of new Nationals Park
I’m not an official Baseball Blogger (see the navigation column at the right for some good ones), so I have to get my information from those other guys and gals. Today the Nats released a wonderful...
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Nationals Stadium Tour #2
Two weeks ago, I walked around the neighborhood of the new Nationals Park with Bob Wright of the Baseball History Podcast. I posted a few pictures back then that I took without knowing much about what...
View ArticleHey, where ya been??
Well, I’ve not been here. I notice that the last post I wrote was right after the Blacksburg shooting. Since then, my daughter has matriculated at Virginia Tech, my house has undergone a major...
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Back Home–the New Ballpark
After our arrival home from Florida on Wednesday night, Thursday was a free day for me. I decided I’d go downtown into DC and take a look at Nationals Park. Looking back at the archives of this blog, I...
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Nationals Opening Day
A week ago, March 30, it was cold and cloudy in Washington, DC. Nevertheless, Barbara and I dressed warmly and went down to Nationals Park for the official opening game of the Nationals’ 2008 season....
View ArticleA Nats fan? Really?
Yep, I’m a Washington Nationals fan, as you can tell from a lot of my past posts. As you also can tell by the date of the most recent post before this one, I almost lost interest in this blog. But...
View ArticleThe miserable night after Opening Day
The Nationals’ Opening Day loss was miserable, of course: 11-1. But worse was the “fan experience.” The team oversold blocks of OD tickets to busloads of Phillies fans–legendary as the rudest, most...
View ArticleOpening-Day storm rages
A lot of people remain quite upset about what happened at Nats opening day. With a stadium oversold with groups of the other team’s fans–who happen to be legendary as some of the worst fans in...
View ArticleUpdate: Stan Kasten’s officially clueless
Adam Kilgore prints his entire email exchange with Kasten in the Nationals Journal.
View ArticleThank you, Mark Zuckerman
The Philly-Phan disaster of the Nationals’ Opening Day still has Nats fans boiling, but there’s baseball tonight. The Nats have a second chance, this time against a pitcher who struggled at the end of...
View ArticleStrasburg’s debut: Now that was something!
So the Strasburg era has begun. Just one day shy of a year after he was drafted, Stephen Strasburg took the mound for the Nationals last night against the Pirates. Nationals Park was packed (although I...
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