A Nationals Weekend
Big Money Tony's streak of wins has come to an end. It should have come as no surprise if everyone knew how the evening started. I met BMT at his client's office as I exited metro. We happened to have a parking permit for our seats to last Friday night's game. As BMT's vehicle was being pulled from the garage, he had to run back upstairs to grab something. The parking lot attendant then had to move the vehicle over a second time. As I stepped inside I tipped the attendant. BMT then came down and jumped inside ready to go. I told him I had tipped the parking lot attendand to which he uttered damn. He had tipped the attendant, too.
We joked about going back to say there was a misunderstanding and ask for a tip back. Then it dawned on me. Wasn't this a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode? Maybe one of the lurkers on the site would be able to chime in? In any event the smug remarks forshadowed the pounding the Marlins gave the Nats on Friday and then twice over on Saturday.
As BMT said, it is all about the food. When the game goes south there's nothing like some good food. I have since tried the wings at Hard Times and it definitely receives two thumbs way up. It was a great time in our partial plan seats on Saturday as we mingled with our fellow fans. We emplored Nats fans to put on their rally caps in the 8th and yelled at fans leaving the ball park that they could be missing the greatest rally in Nationals history.
It was definetlely a lively night as I'd yell Can Not when Cantu would come up to bat our neighbor would yell Can Too! Moreover, from our vantage point a home run was hit and looked foul as it cleared the foul pole. Our neighbor circled his finger and mocked the umpires as foul ball after foul ball was hit by the Marlins. It may have been an 11-0 game but we found a way to have a great time at a fun park. As stated at the start of the season, the Nationals will be a streaky team and it appears that they're on a downward streak. Luckily it looks like their off to a great start with the makings of a win in tonight's game.
Comments
So I'm interested. If the Nationals start losing a bunch toward the end of the season, what happens? You'll have 20 or so games under your belt, so you can't give rave reviews to all of them.
Like Q and I at Redskins games with the $50 (or was it $80?) retail value "Tailgate Party". We got sick of it after a couple of games. Oh wait, I should correct that. We got sick of it after one game.. Correct, part 2. We got sick of it after 1 minute.
Posted by: Big Money Tony
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May 13, 2008 1:08 PM