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WaPo: First Games, Seating Set for Stadium (RR)

Baseball will be played for the first time at Washington’s new stadium March 29, when the Nationals host the Baltimore Orioles in an exhibition game. Nationals’ executives announced the game yesterday and said that opening day could be as early as March 30, when the club hopes to host a nationally televised Sunday night game that would kick off the Major League Baseball season.
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“We’re not only on time, we’re on budget,” said Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D).
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ESPN and Major League Baseball are in discussions about the March 30 opener. “The Nationals are a strong possibility for this,” said a source with direct knowledge of the talks, who requested anonymity because the schedule hadn’t been finalized.

The March 29 Orioles exhibition game, which Nationals President Stan Kasten called a “dress rehearsal” for opening day, will be free for season ticket holders, but single tickets will not be available. Kasten said the team also would work with city officials to provide tickets for District youth groups and the stadium’s construction workers.

NTNgod Posted: November 13, 2007 at 08:21 PM | 10 comment(s)
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1. Jolly Old St. Nick (now, with Screen Name history) Posted: November 13, 2007 at 09:29 PM (#2613981)

Great, so we'll kick off the new stadium with a Sunday night game that'll likely end after midnight.

Sort of picking up where we left off in the World Series. Good show!

2. Gamingboy Posted: November 13, 2007 at 09:34 PM (#2613986)

I expect that many of the seats for the opening game will not be available for the average Joe, and instead be given to lobbyists, presidential candidates, senators, representatives and general ass-kissers.

3. jwb Posted: November 13, 2007 at 11:04 PM (#2614068)

That photo of the stadium under construction shows almost as many people in the stands as at that Marlins' game last summer.

4. Sean McNally Posted: November 13, 2007 at 11:23 PM (#2614084)

As a season ticket holder - I am not happy about this Sunday night development... I had wanted to take my son - who will be about 8 months old in April to the game, since he went to the last game at RFK.

Also, I haven't gotten my seating assignment yet - I hope they didn't screw me there too.

5. Chris Needham Posted: November 14, 2007 at 12:02 AM (#2614134)

Seating assignments aren't mailed 'til Friday, so you didn't miss anything. If you picked upper deck behind the plate, you got your choice, it seems.

I expect that many of the seats for the opening game will not be available for the average Joe, and instead be given to lobbyists, presidential candidates, senators, representatives and general ass-kissers.

Lobbying regulations are a lot stricter now than they were even 3 years ago, so you don't see as much of that now... or at least it's driven to where it belongs: the shadows!

What cheeses me off is that jerkwad Tim Russert. He's got the seats right behind the home dugout and NEVER goes to the games, occasionally gracing the seats for about 3 innings on the occasional Sunday.

6. Chris Needham Posted: November 14, 2007 at 12:05 AM (#2614140)

If any of you are interested, this site (an amazing one if you're interested at all in the development of the entire stadium area) has plenty of photos from today's ceremony.

The more I see of the place, the less I like. It certainly has a particularly pedestrian view -- nothing beautiful like Pittsburgh or even Baltimore.

7. Belfry Bob Posted: November 14, 2007 at 01:11 AM (#2614191)

At last, a chance for the Nats to sell out a few more games. Heaven knows it was going to take something other than just having a baseball team to do it.

8. Sean McNally Posted: November 14, 2007 at 01:35 AM (#2614204)

If you picked upper deck behind the plate, you got your choice, it seems.

Hoo-ray! And kudos for remembering where my seats are ;-)

Now the question is, should i buy the parking...

9. Halofan Posted: November 14, 2007 at 04:25 AM (#2614237)

Ending at midnight? Only if you are on the @ss end of the country.

10. Belfry Bob Posted: November 14, 2007 at 11:47 AM (#2614424)

Isn't the scoreboard actually too big? It looks like it's sort of stuck on, and it with it not integrated more into the stadium itself, it looks like it might be really distracting.

Still, I look forward to checking the place out, if not to the parking and traffic nightmares. It's no closer to me in Mt. Airy than Camden, so I won't be venturing down there much.

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