Monday, May 5, 2008

Jeff Passan on Nats Park

Jeff Passan (one of my favorite columnists) from Yahoo Sports wrote today on Stan Kaston, Nats Park and the attendance (or lack there of). Passan points out the ill-planed presidential seats, and the fact that the stadium has yet to meet attendance expectations despite its adequacy. It’s a great column, and you should check it out here.

Some highlights:


"Nationals Park, the city’s $611 million gift to bring baseball back after a 34-year hiatus, is a perfectly acceptable new stadium. It is not transcendent like its Beltway neighbor, Camden Yards in Baltimore, and not a billion-dollar homage to gluttony like the new Yankee Stadium will be. It is a good place to take the family for $5 a ticket, grab a drink in the packed center-field bar, watch a footrace involving people wearing giant foam heads of dead presidents, ogle the HD video screen and soak in a gorgeous day like Sunday, when the sun beamed, a breeze whistled through the Southeast and the game-time temperature registered at 72."


"Perhaps so, though Kasten can’t ignore the games on television where it looks as though the Nationals are playing to a crowd of ushers. The President seats, positioned behind home plate, go for more than $300 apiece, and they’re selling like underwear at a nudist colony. Every pitch, the view is the same: hitter, catcher, umpire and about 25 of their unoccupied blue friends."

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yo YardYoder, its wed afternoon. There was a game yesterday, the Nats lost. No comment?