The season came to an end yesterday, with everyone--players, fans, announcers, writers--forgetting the disappointment of the second half and instead focusing on what made this season so special: the return of baseball to Washington after an absence of 34 years. The Nationals lost, but it hardly mattered because the only thing on everyone's mind was the joy of baseball. At the end of the game the fans cheered like the team had made the playoffs, and the players basked in the applause and the intense emotion.
Last year this team was playing in front of a few hundred in Montreal. This year it closed the season in front of 36,000 appreciative fans and drew an amazing 2.7 million fans throughout the year. Anyone who complained that the D.C. area couldn't or wouldn't support a baseball team can now shut up because it is clear that this is one of the best venues for baseball in the major leagues. The only thing standing in the way of sustained success is Major League Baseball, and hopefully they will get out of the way in the next few weeks.
We've complained loudly about management this year, and we'll complain a lot about them in the future unless some changes are made. But none of that seemed particularly important yesterday. As the fans and players exchanged applause, the only thing that mattered was that baseball is back in D.C.
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Loved this season at RFK...excepting the nightly scandal that I failed to communicate effectively to anyone who mattered.
Why is it that every night that friggin' Screech got to stand by the singer of our national anthem and keep its hat on...backwards?
Everyone is asked to remove their caps in "honoring America". But not Screech.
Everyone complies, shows respect and honor. Not Screech.
(In fact, it adds dignity to the affair when it does a series of cart wheels after the singer is done, doesn't it?)
I know it's a mascot. I know that. I know the hat is likely sewn on. I know that there are at least two, because it appears with the hat on normally at times.
But it's the principle. The players remove their caps. The fans remove theirs. All representatives of the Nationals organization should be required to comply as any fan does.
It would appear that this mascot has a certain appeal the kids. I wonder if any of those kids told their parents that they wanted to keep wearing their hat during the anthem - backwards. Because Screech did.
I wrote newspapers and radio stations. I never could get ahold of anyone in the front office.
I failed completely.
For that, I apologize.
Screech...remove the cap...or stay off the field for the anthem.
I now return you to this otherwise sensible blog...
Jim
Great comment! Hilarious!
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