Is it a done deal? Am I jinxing the whole thing by even writing a blog entry on it?
The Associated Press reports that the DC City Council approved a revised lease deal for a new baseball stadium in Washington. We’re waiting to see what Major League Baseball has to say about the revisions. In the Washington Post, Thomas Boswell has weighed in with a column. The local report is by David Nakamura.
It looks like there might actually be a deal for a new stadium, and then soon that there might be a sale of the team from Major League Baseball to a real ownership group.
I am not a huge sports fan, but I’ve always been a baseball fan. When my children were small and we all lived in Nashville, one of our favorite summertime outings was to see the Nashville Sounds play at Greer Stadium.
Before my wife and I lived in Nashville, we were in New York City, and I got to sit in the cheap seats of Yankee Stadium watching the Yanks in the legendary late-1970s/early-1980s phase of the team. I’d take the subway from the west 70s in Manhattan up to the South Bronx and be in baseball heaven for a few hours.
The inaugural season of the Washington Nationals last summer was a lot of fun; and the month of June, when the Nats were in first place for several weeks, was baseball nirvana. They’ll not be as good this summer, probably, but I’ll still attend 10-12 games and love every minute of it.
Can it be that we really do get to keep this team permanently? Can we allow ourselves to truly cherish our very own Nats?
Categories: baseball, washington-dc
Oh I hope this is real. Like you, I’m not a sports fan, but I’m a baseball fan, and going through those critical Junior High School/Senior High School years outside Boston didn’t help.
Opening day is two months away. We should be starting to make game reservations soon. . .
Julie H.