What comes to mind when you think about the Washington Nationals

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- I have a number for a good doctor, just give him a call, and talk…

I don’t think there has ever and I mean EVER been a stadium, ball park, arena that didn’t have some growing pains in its first season.

I recommend giving the Nats at least one more chance in Nats ballpark. Hell…81 home games? They’re not all going to be instant classics.

It was part of my half-season plan up in the cheap seats, but a buddy had an extra ticket in the lower bowl about ten rows back on the RF line. The section was half empty (and roasting in the sun), and my wife snuck down around the 6th inning and sat with us the rest of the game. I think it really depends on the particular usher. I remember a guy who made me show my ticket stub every damn game, way out in CF in RFK—and we had season tickets! I was there every other game!

…I had a nice seat in the lower bowl, right above the first base side of third…the kind of seats that make Doghouse scold you for having nice seats, and the usher in this section, for the first time at an MLB game, was actually stopping people from walking down until play stopped…for once it wasn’t a constants stream of people shuffling down the row every other minute, and I actually got to “see” every at bat…a novel approach to the live experience…

The usher you describe might have been under observation…asked to remove people for some reason, just an angry usher looking to use what little power they have, (“No offense, Ushers! What? I said, ‘No offense?’”)

Give it another try Tozer…though the MASN folks probably like your TV plans better…you’d be viewer #9,003!!!

I need to make it happen.

…but all those 1-run wins were fantastic.