A Summer of Nationals Games

The Washington Nationals are D.C.'s MLB team out here and they get to play in a brand new stadium that was built about two years ago with the coolest humongous HD MEGA-tron screen. It has been really fun to attend the games while I've been here, each time with lots of different people. John Haddow, the lobbyist at our firm, gave me four tickets to the game, so the first time I attended with my friends Sally Shen, Daisy Yan, and Beibei Zhu (all co-workers). We had 2nd row tickets and it was way fun to be so close. My favorite part of the game is the GEICO Presidents Race where the 4 Presidential Mascots race to a finish line put up on field. They do it every game and for some reason I get such a kick out of it. See footage below:


According to Wikipedia, Abe Lincoln is in the leader for the 2008 season, but who knows..... competition can be fierce. I have never been one for baseball, maybe cause the Salt Lake team seems to change their name or the name of the stadium every other year. Is it Franklin Quest or Franklin Covey Stadium? The Bees, the Buzz? Who knows? But the MLB is a lot more fun with a lot more fans as well. The offices of a lot of the other interns have season tickets as well, so hopefully I will be able to go more often. Meagan Kline got us tickets from the Caring Institute and Marko and I bought sweet matching "Swirly W" hats of the street. Check out some of my favorite Nationals Games pics below:

I have already been to 4 games, one of which was completely rained out. Elyse had gotten tickets to the game from work and when we tried to go it started POURING cats and dogs..... we did see three pitches, but then they covered up the field and we were sopping wet, it was actually quite fun regardless. Check out the footage: