is the number of souls who saw the Washington Nationals home opener--yours truly included. Livan Hernandez pitched a great game until running out of gas in the ninth, and they won 5-3. (BTW, check out Livan's real first name...)
I also went to today's game, where RFK Stadium was rocking when the Nats rallied for 6 in the bottom of the seventh to win 7-3. Literally rocking--apparently dating back to the days when the Ethnic Slurs played there, the fans will jump up and down and set a wave in motion in the structure. Makes me glad to have those upper deck seats...
RFK looks like it might play as a bigtime triples park. It's 410 ft. to center and 380 to the power alleys, so it's tough to get one out but there's a lot of room for the ball to roll. In small sample size, I've seen none-too-fleet-of-foot Vinny Castilla and Nick Johnson smack triples. This will be good; triples are fun.
Castilla, incidentally, is becoming a local hero, despite being one of my least favorite players of the last ten years. (I just think he's overrated by virtue of playing at Planet Coors a lot and hardly ever walking.) But on Opening Night he was a single short of the cycle (he got plunked the fourth time up), had a key double Saturday and scored the tying run today. My first Nats T-shirt has Brad Wilkerson's name and number on the back, but he ain't done jack at home yet.
Today they unveiled the mascot--someone contain my unbridled joy--and it's a bald eagle that really looks like a chicken. I mean, its beak is not ripping appart prey, I tell you that. Sam from the Muppets looked more realistic. Oh, and its name: Screech. I mean, I knew Dustin Diamond needed work, but geez...
It's kind of a pain in the butt to upload individual pictures, so I'm making a zip file (which includes a text file describing the photos) of pictures from opening night and a few from my seat today, which is my season-long location. Warning: it's just shy of 5MB, so it's Not Safe For Dial-Up. But you want documentation, it takes space, baby.
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So who wins in a fight, Screech or the San Diego Chicken?
--shane
Have you looked into Flikr to host photos? Apparently all the cool kids are doing it. I haven't yet, because, well, I'm not cool.
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