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The Post has an article on how today's Nationals game against the Brewers is the second of only two weekday afternoon games at
Nationals Park this season. " 'We love afternoon weekday games but had to hold off this year due to the uncertainty about daytime parking availability,' Nationals President Stan Kasten said. 'We'd certainly like to have more next season, but no decisions have been made about '09.' " The article also talks to hookey-playing grownups who miss these games. Given that it's a holiday, and the gorgeous weather, and Sunday's second-highest-of-the-season attendance (35,567), this final weekday game might see a pretty big pile of people.
And, catching up on a recent few links that I've been slow to post:
* Columnist George Solomon
Saturday's Post has a brief preview of the upcoming
Congressional Bank Baseball Classic, which will showcase the the first-ever, city-wide high school baseball championship game, at Nationals Park on May 31. Games begin at 9:30 a.m., with private schools St. Albans and Maret meeting, followed by the DCIAA's Wilson High facing McKinley. Tickets are $5, and kids get in free--
read more here.
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Dr. Gridlock hears that using the Capitol South station on the Orange and Blue lines and then walking down New Jersey Avenue to go to games is a great idea. Yes, it certainly is, even if it isn't exactly a news flash. (But use the
JDLand Recommended Route instead!)
In non-ballpark news:
* For those of you counting the moments until the armed encampment at
First and M departs,
here's a May 14 story from the Mount Vernon Gazette on the progressing construction at Ft. Belvoir of the new home for the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. It's expected to be completed by August 2011, with NGA employees from Reston, Bethesda, and the windowless white box on the old Southeast Federal Center
footprint starting to move in early in 2011. Eventually that First-and-M site will be redeveloped as office space as part of
The Yards.