"People will come Ray"...(just not for the home team)

The picture is of me and my friend Bryan Allen at a Washington Nationals game in DC. (Bryan came out for a weekend of adventure, it was district-y and columbia-y).

I have to mention a quick story. During this game I had to use the facilities, oh heck I'll just say it, I had to pee, and it was the most entertaining visit to the men's room I've ever experienced. When I got in there, there were about 10 urinals and there was a line of about 6 or 7 people in front of each one, not too unusual for a sporting event and the line tends to move pretty quickly for men...anyways. While in line, some guys started saying something about the Cubs (the teams the Nationals were playing that day) and the guy who said it had on a Boston Red Sox hat, well, someone else started talking smack about his team and then someone else got into it about another team. So there were about 5 people in all, in a room full of people that were yelling back and forth at each other about their teams, all in good fun, but still competitive fun. I actually heard some good arguments for all sides. Some of the guys were hilarious and it kept going all up until they made it to the urinal, and then it was over, just like that.

So, that just goes to show you, just because you have to take a break from a game, it doesn't mean you have to stop being entertained.

Anyways, there's a baseball team out here, they were the Montreal Expos and nobody would go to their games, so they moved to DC. And still no one goes to their games, well, that's not entirely true.

Washington used to have a baseball team back in the day called the Senators, but they moved to Texas, so for the last 30-40 years there was no baseball team here and many of the locals switched their allegiance to the Baltimore Orioles, the next closest thing.

The Expos were a terrible team and the Nationals still are, seriously, last in the entire league. What's interesting though is to see that they can still pack a stadium.

It's not every game, but when they play other big city teams that have a widespread fan base, those fans will come and watch them play. There are so many people working in DC who aren't from DC or there are those that are visiting as tourists and such, that they can come to a great stadium for a decent price and watch their team usually clobber the Nat's.

I just thought that it was kind of funny. I root for the Nat's because I'm here and I like the underdogs but I think that if the Nationals ever became a good team, the fan base would be huge. There's a lot of would-be fans out here that are just waiting for an opportunity to cheer.