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Posted By: john/z28jd
I took the 3 1/2 trip yesterday to the first major league game at the Nationals new ballpark to see the Orioles vs Nationals,and basically to check out the new stadium before it debuts on tv tonight. Got there 3 hours early so I could walk around the whole place and since it was for season tickets holders only(thank you ebay) I figured yesterdays game would be alot cheaper and better to check out the place. I figured I'd share some pics including the cherry blossom trees they made a big deal over,and a nice shot of the Capitol building from the stairs in left field. |
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Posted By: Ray
I drive past the stadium pretty much every day/night since I work about 1/2 mile away. I had to work last night and headed home around 5:30pm. Traffic was pretty miserable...as if it was a regular M-F day...except instead of cars taking up the road it was fans. Not a huge deal to me because it was kind of neat to get the feel of it and it was a good reminder that baseball is back for the season. But I'd hate to see the traffic on game nights during the work week. I've gotten the oppurtunity to watch it being built from scratch since I drive past it to/from work all the time. It's a tiny, cozy park...at least it looks like it from the outside...just like Citizen's Bank. |
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Posted By: Anthony S.
John, |
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Posted By: Cashews
How much are Nationals tickets? That looks like a pretty good seat and I'm just wondering what the difference is between Nationals games and Yankees games. That is like a 75 dollar ticket at Yankee Stadium. |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
They said that there is a wind tunnel created by parking garages in left field and that anything in the air will get caught in it. There was 2 balls hit to the warning track all game,one was a line drive to left,probably low enough the wind didnt affect it,and one to center which looked like a homer off the bat but died. From just one game its obviously hard to tell for sure but my brother and I both said it looks like a pitchers park. If they had a gap hitter with speed the park would be good for triples because of some awkward angles in the outfield for the most part the Nats are a slow team, between Dukes,LoDuca,Dmitri,Belliard and Guzman they look more like linebackers than baseball players anyway. Kearns might do decent there,Zimmerman should be very good and improve slightly on last year,and Milledge will be good if he ever learns how to hit a curveball. That guy is toast with 2 strikes vs a guy with a decent curve. I wouldnt take Nick Johnson just based on his health issues.They have no pitching worth looking at except Cordero for the bullpen |
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Posted By: Cashews
I've read in some magazines that the Nationals are in the top 10 in revenue every year because of the huge interest in baseball there again. Do you know if thats true? There are some people who think now that the Nats have their new stadium they're going to start using that extra surplus money to slowly build a great team and thats what keeps a lot of fans coming back even if the team is terrible, the promise of the future. I'd like to see that happen. If the Nats were a strong team the NL East would become just as exciting and contested as the AL East. |
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Posted By: dennis
thanks for posting the great pics,nice to have a team in D.C. again!!!!(even if it is in the wrong league) |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
I dont know if thats true or not. I would think they made good money the first year they were in Washington from fan interest being so high and merchandise sales being high but by last year the thrill of them being back sort of wore off and people werent happy about seeing a bad team in a bad stadium. They drew 2.7 mil their first year in Washington in 2005 but dropped to 2.1 the next year then under 2 mil by 2007 and they also had a ton of cheap seats there in the upper deck that sold pretty good so even with a decent attendance they still werent bringing in alot. This year they will probably draw close to 3 million which will bring in a lot of cash but they have that problem of not making money off parking and still having a weak team so that will probably keep them from maximizing their potential. |
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Posted By: Dustan Hedlin
The stadium looks nice from the pictures. I'll be on the east coast from Aug. 22nd - Sept. 1 and will be going to 1 game in DC. Some old college friends and I made a pact that we'd get to all 30 major league stadiums, and we're catching the last 5 this year. We were rained out at Shea when we went out east 2 years ago, so we're going there, along with a Yanks-Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium since it's the last year for that stadium. Should be a great trip, and I'm looking forward to the new park in DC. |
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