Why are the called the Nationals?
Washington’s original baseball team was interchangeably referred to as the Senators and Nationals, or Nats for short, for most of its time in the District before relocating to Minnesota in 1960.
Washington’s 1961 expansion franchise was known almost exclusively as the Senators until it moved to Texas after the 1971 season. When the Montreal Expos relocated to the nation’s capital in 2005, the team revived the Nationals nickname.
Why am I excited to see their city?
Washington D.C is a great city where the air smells as political as the conversations.
With the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Capitol Hill and 100’s of museums all in walking distance, it is an awesome place for a tourist to explore and see some of the coolest monuments on earth.
Check out my singlet phase!
In addition to this, Georgetown (what a name), is nearby, which has the George College campus, as well as tons of cool bars and restaurants – it feels as if they’ve transplanted a really cool college town right into the city.
Yep – very excited to get back to DC.
What is a tradition at their ballpark?
Even though they’re a relatively “new” franchise. The Nationals have gone above and beyond to create some awesome traditions in their ball park.
From Veteran salutes at every home game (hey, it’s the nations capital), through to their Centre Field Entrance, it appears the Nationals are doing what it takes to really engage their fan base and build support for the great product they’ve managed to put on the field in recent times.
However, by far the coolest tradition they do, is the PRESIDENT RACE at every home game. Here, they line up some former classic Presidents of the USA and race them… because why not?
Check it out below:
Wonder if we’ll ever get a head to head with Trump vs Obama? We can only hope
Who is a famous fan?
Being in the nations capital, you’ve politicians like Joe Biden and George Washington (probably).
But the guy I’m going with is again down the music ally and a very underrated rapper – WALE!
CUE THE GOD DAMN MUSIC! (great song)
A fun/weird fact about the Nationals?
When the Nationals moved from Montreal to Washington, is it possible they stole Walgreen’s (a MASSIVE chain pharmacy) logo?
Is something more sinister going on here with corporate greed entering the whole baseball arena?
Folks, I’ll let you be the judge here…..
Walgreens:
Nationals:
(gotta wake up pretty early in the morning to pull a fast one on me)
Thirty before 30 