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Metro says that just under 21,500 fans used the Navy Yard Metro station for
Sunday night's opener at Nationals Park, following the 15,141 who did so for the
Saturday exhibition. (I wonder how many used Capitol South, or got off at Union Station and took the N22.)
WJLA and others say that the station was cleared within a half-hour of the game's end, which can be verified by looking at last night's shots from the
55 M construction web cam.
* Moving on to the next huge event, the
WashTimes says that 45,000 bar-coded tickets to the April 17 mass by Pope Benedict have arrived, and should be going out to parishes next week. Scalpers will be condemned to eternal hellfire and damnation.
* On the flip side, I can't help but cackle at what was written in
an online column by the San Antonio Express-News [emphasis mine]: "If you're craving actual photos of [Nationals Park] -- including work-in-progress updates -- go to the
ballpark homepage for the
Near Southeast DC Redevelopment agency. Sure, these people have a vested interest, but they also have lots of photos, a construction webcam and a well-done Q-and-A section on the park." I'm an agency now? Usually I'm just a development company. But, a note for readers who don't realize it: I'm none of the above. (I don't work for the Nats, either.)
I'm just me.