It is unthinkable that any team could beat the Washington Nationals, the best team in baseball. I don't have a million dollars, but if I did, I would bet, like, half of it that the Washington Nationals won't lose a single game this year. They'll be like the whatever-it-was Dolphins, except they will play 162 [...]

Adam Eidinger, long one of DC's most active activists, is also a businessman. He's had his own PR firm for several years, and now he's firing up a hemp clothing store.
The shop will open later this month in Adams Morgan, says Eidinger, who briefly achieved international fame in 2004 by disrupting the Washington Nationals introductory [...]

It's not every week that Washington, D.C., gets a new baseball stadium. I realize that. But please, local publications, get this baseball-crazy bug out of your system as soon as possible. I'm tired of seeing some new iteration of the same story, over and over again. Here we go, prime example: stories about the stadium [...]

This morning, the Washington Post flooded the proverbial zone on its Nationals Park coverage—dozens of its reporters documented every last aspect of the ballpark's first official major-league game. The Post also flooded the paper with an inaccuracy: That the stadium cost $611 million.
The $611 million figure reflects the cap that the D.C. Council imposed on [...]

The Washington Post's architecture guru Philip Kennicott writes a withering critique of Nationals Park for today's paper. The critic believes this behemoth, designed by experienced stadium architecture firm HOK, is a dud.
He dubs the parking garages as "disastrously situated" for obscuring the front entrance. And then ticks off all the lost opportunities:
"Approached from the South [...]

V-v-v-v-vuh. (WTOP)

George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch at Nationals Park on Sunday night.
Being the least popular president in history, he'll surely bring some sort of hater-repellant, such as the youngest Jonas Brother or a cutout of Martin Luther King, to the mound with him.
Will he be booed?

D.C. has to pay for security costs at the baseball stadium, and that's going to cost over $1 million, reports WTOP's Mark Segraves.

Today, the Washington Post published a front-page piece on Positive Nature and the non-profit's on-going struggle to pay off its huge property tax bill. We have a story or two on this issue as well.
This afternoon we got the chance to talk to Stephen T. Baron, Director of the Department of Mental Health, about the [...]

$2150 is the buy-it-now price for Opening Day tickets on eBay. Here's the seller's pitch:
Once in a lifetime opportunity to sit behind home plate, front row, club seating for the Washington Nationals first official MLB game EVER at the Nat! Gates open at 3:30 PM, game time listed as 8:05 PM. Access to [...]

First Wily Mo Peña tears a muscle. Then Elijah Dukes strains a hammy and is listed day-to-day. This brings new meaning to the term "rehabilitation" and means I am totally screwed for blog items for the foreseeable future. Oh, and it's the dawn of the Alex Escobar era.
UPDATE, 5:08 p.m.: Dukes says he'll be OK! [...]

Via Dan Steinberg, news that starting tomorrow at 9 a.m., you can vote on what songs you'd like to hear at Nationals Park. Nothing too surprising choice-wise—U2, Toby Keith, a convicted sex offender for victories, Blur's "Song 2" or perhaps Chuck Brown's "Busting Loose" for home runs (note: do not play that one [...]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Nats stadium's impact on the surrounding neighborhood. No one feels the sting of all that stadium-related development more than the non-profit Positive Nature. The higher property taxes may put them out of business.
It is hard to estimate the impact of a place like Positive Nature. They run [...]

Looking for a token to encourage a young baseball fan's budding love of the game, but turned off by all that baseball-related violence? The Non-Violent Toys Washington Nationals Mix Match may be just the ticket! Special bonus: No reading required!
Some of us would love to have our own stadiums, especially with the world's largest [...]

Announced today by the Nats and The George Washington University: That august institution's baseball team will have the honor of being the first hardball squad to play at Nationals Park.
A March 22 game will pit GW versus St. Joseph's in riveting Atlantic 10 action. Oh, and according to the GW press release, "The match between [...]