Marc Fisher gives driving to the ballpark the Dr. Gridlock treatment. I drove to the ballpark during rush hour this morning, using the following route from the mid-city area: 9th Street NW/SW to Maine Avenue SW to M Street SW to First Street SW. Parked on the unit block of Q Street SW; crossed South [...]
Fan IQ, which despite its URL, is not pronounced "faneek," ranks the Nats' own Elijah Dukes as fifth-best athlete in modern history when it comes to producing out-of-wedlock children (I'm not down with the term "illegitimate," sorry). It's even somewhat scientific: Author "100%InjuryRate" determined the average number of o-o-w kids produced by pro athletes by [...]
While writing my story this week on the influence of Nationals Park on the surrounding neighborhood, I focused a lot of time on a non-profit called Positive Nature. The non-profit runs an after-school program that includes tutoring, sports, art and movement therapy, and a lot of one-on-one stuff for at-risk kids. I spent several days [...]
While working on this story on the Nationals stadium, I had the pleasure of finding and interviewing Kenneth Wyban. For a time, Wyban was the media's go-to-guy when they needed a stadium victim. He was one of the people whose homes had to be demolished to make way for the ballpark. He was in the [...]
WTOP's Mark Segraves reports that the District's won an arbitration ruling that will save the city more than $4 million in ancillary stadium costs. Just how ancillary? Some juicy parts:
Since last summer, the team and the District have been in arbitration over who is required to pay for ancillary items at the new stadium, such [...]
Marc Fisher's got the scoop on the local specialties to be sold at the Nationals ballpark come March:
Ben's Chili Bowl
Boardwalk Fries
Gifford's Ice Cream
Hard Times Cafe
Red, Hot and Blue
Noah's Pretzels
Mayorga Coffee
La Piccola Gelateria
Cantina Marina
Elijah Dukes does not live in a cage. As Dave Sheinin reports in today's Post, the outfielder said "It might seem I live in a cage," in a press conference where he was attended by three members of the Nats' brass plus two flacks. "But I don't. I get out and meet people all the [...]
While we wait for news on the Elijah Dukes–related press conference (Yo, Sheinin! Fewer Drive-By Truckers shoutouts, more live-bloggin'!), let's catch up with the Nats bloggers.
Hard not to lead with Capitol Punishment's grab from the Washington Times' blog of Jim Bowden tooling (was ever a verb so apt?) around on a customized Nats Segway. "What's [...]
Kudos to the Washington Times, home to strong-willed Eagles fans, for flooding the zone on the Pope's visit to D.C. in April–for about a month now the paper's had a dedicated blog on the subject. Today it brings word that parishioners at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in New York City, where Benedict XVI will lead [...]
If you drive by the new Nationals Stadium you will do several things: a) you will marvel at the enormity of the project; b) you will dwell on the beauty of the new South Cap. bridge; c) you will think about the cars–you will wonder where will all the cars go? Traffic is one thing. [...]
New Nats minor league signing Katsuhiko Maekawa gives the team another good left-handed option. If he makes the cut in spring training, he'll also continue the recent trend of transforming Nationals Stadium into the most dangerous place in D.C. besides maybe the City Paper's upstairs parking deck. Barry Svrluga mentions Maekawa's troubles back home; here's [...]
I drove by the new baseball stadium, Nationals Park, again today. I hate almost everything and I'm rarely right about anything, but, based solely on my brief field trip, here's a few observations and a prediction:
1)Someday, Nationals Park is going to be an amazing place to watch a ballgame. The plant looks large and important [...]
Via Capitol Punishment: If you bet $1 on the the Washington Nationals to win the World Series, and they do, you'll make $199. If you bet $1,000,000, you could buy the Redskins and hire back Vince Lombardi from the dead! Not that I'm trolling for comments, but those were Ron Paul's odds, and look at [...]
Welcome to Washington, Paul Lo Duca! I was very sorry to hear about the injury you sustained while working out. Rest assured that any decline in your performance this year, should such occur, will be blamed on yesterday's surgery, and your advancing age, rather than the possibility that your body chemistry will be slightly different [...]
Wow, it's just over two months till baseball season begins again. A new stadium, a Plan that is arguably working, some hellos, some goodbyes. Fare-thee-well, Robert Fick. I shall miss the easy pun. Welcome home, Ray King! You wouldn't have enjoyed the off-season here anyway.
But the player I'm most looking forward to seeing in red [...]
