Musings and thoughts on the Battle of the Beltway game at RFK Stadium between the Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles:
- I had a great seat in section 422 for this game, but I made a point to look at the field from my season ticket seat in 417. We’ve got the third row. It will be great, but we may try to upgrade next year to move closer to home and (more importantly) up at least one or two rows, to take the rail out of the picture.
- The Nationals lost. At least one guy on the ballparkguys.com discussion board was very incensed about this. Most of the rest of us, though, just enjoyed being at the stadium. The Nationals are going to lose a lot this year–they have no owner yet, so they have no budget to acquire players, plus a lame-duck management staff. We’ll live.
- This was a two-game exhibition series. Friday night was in DC, Saturday late afternoon in Baltimore. It was a little disappointing to see only about 19,000 people in RFK for the Friday game–until we saw the attendance for Saturday’s game in Baltimore. It was 11,000 and something, and I’ve heard tell that many of those people were Nationals fans. Moreover, we in DC paid full price for tickets to this practice game, while the Orioles sold their tickets for $10. It’s clear to me who the real fans are.
Go Nationals! Opening day of the season is tomorrow (Monday), in New York against the NY Mets. Opening day at home is Tuesday, April 11. We have tickets for Wednesday the 12th, against the Mets. I can hardly wait!
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