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Whew, we can all breathe a little easier now. After what seemed like weeks of incessantly meaningless bickering, D.C. Wire reports that the Mayor's office handed over 19 Nationals seats to the City Council today, in what I'm sure new City Administrator Neil O. Albert is going to remember fondly as his first official duty in said capacity. Vincent Gray & Co. will be able to use the seats in Suite 61 at Nationals Park starting on Wednesday against Pittsburgh. (Hey, just in time to watch the Nationals and Pirates battle for the title of most incompetent National League franchise!) Post scribe Nikita Stewart, who broke the story, wonders about the timing of the exchange: "[t]he tickets could be a peace offering as Fenty tries to convince the council to restore some of his original budget proposal before a final vote on the budget support act." Uh, sure, tickets are nice and all, but if the Mayor thinks that giving the Council Nats tickets which they already believed were theirs is really going to grease the wheels, he probably has not seen a lot of Nationals games this season. (Springsteen tickets probably would have been a better choice.) But hey, that's beside the point here -- at least now we won't have to hear about this nonsense again until there's something interesting happening at the Verizon Center.
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couldn't we make at least some small argument that the cubs are the most incompetent national league franchise? 100 years without reaching the goal you set every spring, that sounds like the ultimate in futility and incompetence to me...
Yeah, geez, IMGoph, I don't know. At least the Cubs have had relatively successful seasons recently. Yeah, sure, the Northsiders haven't won a World Series in a hundred years, but that's part of their charm. On the other hand, the Pirates haven't even had a winning season in seventeen years. No one cares about the Pirates; not their owners, not the people in Pittsburgh, and no one in the national media. This is certainly not the case with the Cubs.
And as for the Nats/Expos...ah, I just don't have the energy.
i just wanted a chance to rag on cubs fans, really. i kind of feel like they deserve it. it's fun to listen to them complain...
Thank you for ragging on the Cubs. I fully support that. F them.
Chicago Cubs, 1908 World Series Champions
Washington Senators, 1924 World Series Champions
I'm not very good at subtraction, but I think a World Series pennant has flown in Washington more recently than the North Side of Chicago.
Who cares about the Expos lineage (bar the people trying to build the ruined farm system we inherited)? Washington baseball records are all that matter to me - I'm happy to own that suck.
Of course, Washington won the World Series as an American League club ;-)
First off, while I come here via chicagoist, I'm a White Sox fan, so don't equate me with north side morons.
Here's a question of a philosophical nature: Can Washington lay any real claim to the success of a team which, for nearly the last 50 years, has been playing in Minnesota? I doubt New Yorkers take any pride in the 1955 Dodgers championship. Isn't citing the very brief success of a team that has long since abandoned you just kind of sad?
Another question, similar vein: Can you really use the long-ago success of the team now called the Twins as argument that the Nationals aren't bad? They're two totally unrelated organizations.
After all the shootings this weekend, this is great news.
Our Long Washingtonian Nightmare Is Over
YAAAAAY! Marion Barry moved to Guadalcanal!
(Until Wizards Season, At Least)
BOOOOO! YOU SUCK!
A smarter media strategy would have been to keep the Executive/Legislative controversy going so that there would be something in the press making it seem like these tickets are in demand. Oh well.