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