After West Virginia, we went to see friends in Columbia, MD and then the next night we went to the new Nationals Stadium in Washington, DC. It was the 17th MLB ballpark I've been to. The Stadium is nice, it looks a lot like most of the other newer stadiums being built. It has a beautiful jumbotron TV in the outfield and a nice little play area that Jessica ran around in for an hour. However, there were a lot of things that I didn't like and they all revolve around money. We parked two and a half blocks away and paid $25. That's a ripoff. To park in the lot directly across the street from the stadium, you had to buy passes when you bought tickets and it cost $40 to park there. More ridiculous! Ticket prices were as expected, but the food was overpriced. I know it always is but $8 for a square slice of pizza is insane. Sodas were like $4.50, beers were $8 and so on and so on. I'm sure when the Mets and Yankees open their new ballparks next year, the prices will be just as insane. Baseball teams are going to make it near impossible to allow families to attend games due to the high costs of everything.
The most embarrasing thing of all at the stadium is all the empty seats behind the backstop. The Nationals completely overpriced those seats. They go for like $300-$800 or something like that for the ones directly behind home plate. If you ever watch Sportscenter, you'll probably notice how empty those seats are for most games. Take a look next tiime.
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the nationals suck! they remind me of the mudducks in our fantasy football league.
From what I heard those seats behind home plate, yes for those prices, are reserved for government personnel such as Congress(wo)men and Senators.
Yes folks, the same people who get overpaid, have drivers (paid by us), housing (paid by us), get fed (by us), etc have their own section at the new National Stadium.
My question is: If people, normal people, do not want to see the Nationals play what makes them think that the government will?
This is the scenario I see:
The Senator from New Mexico has a bet with the Senator from North Dakota as to who will land the best looking prostitute with our tax dollars. The loser pays for the tickets to a Nationals game. Well someone loses.(Ready for the most exciting part)... THEY STILL DON'T ATTEND THE GAME.
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