A Stadium, and With It a Season, Opens With Fanfare in Washington

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A Stadium, and With It a Season, Opens With Fanfare in Washington
It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets ... found this 3/31/2008 on www.nytimes.com [flag]
The Washington Nationals started their new season in a new ballpark, a $611 million home for a team that spent its first three years in a multipurpose stadium. [link]

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Burning Questions for 2008
Published 3/31/2008 by Itsmetsforme at It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations
... Stadium this opening day led me to pose this question. We have the technology. So why just cover the infield and then sit there for a couple of hours and watch the outfield turn into a swamp? And don't tell me the outfields always drain properly. The rats at Shea are out there practicing their swimming, doing laps from warning track to foul pole, but our Brazillian-dollar outfielders can just fend for themselves? Will the Br*ves ever win a game? Har. What did Billy Goat ...

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