Just when you think it can't get any more ridiculous...

DC Fire Chief unilaterally cancels post-game fireworks? Come on, I've had those little specks of paper fall on my plenty of times--it's not like they're ON FIRE!

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No more "Bang Zoom"? WTH? (and yes the "H" stands for Heck)

Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."

by Patrick Reddington on Jun 8, 2009 4:23 PM EDT reply actions

i think this refers to the pre-game and home run fireworks on top of the stadium...

and not the Firday night fireworks.

frankly, this does not shock me in the slightest. paper and debris from the pre-game and home run fireworks fall into the crowd and onto the field routinely, and, as small as the possibility might be, there could be dangerous remnants in that debris.

what surprises me is that no one had complained until now.

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by Dave at District Sports Page on Jun 8, 2009 4:23 PM EDT reply actions

Debris fell at RFK, too...

…it never mattered then, and hasn’t for a whole season at Nats Park. The DC fire chief is overruling his own inspector on this, who had approved it previously.

We are all jinxed in NatsTown™.

by Doghouse on Jun 8, 2009 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought getting fireworks paper on you was good luck.

by RoscoeNats on Jun 9, 2009 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions

Good Luck returns to Nats Park!!!! Ban lifted...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060801808.html

“By yesterday afternoon, the ban was lifted. After meeting with fire officials, the team agreed to change the direction in which the fireworks are set off and the content of the explosives and make other adjustments, fire spokesman Alan Etter said. "

Oh wait, no more good luck paper from the sky for the Nats crowd…….

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by cat daddy3000 on Jun 9, 2009 1:32 AM EDT up reply actions