It was just over two weeks ago that the Washington Nationals, to great fanfare, took the field at RFK Stadium for the first Major League Baseball game in Washington in over three decades. Years of political bickering, backroom negotiating, and hoping were finally put to rest as the team defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks in front of a capacity crowd.

It’s not uncommon to see commuters sporting “W” hats, and for those residents living near RFK, weeknights now see the constant flow of fans to and from the stadium. Washingtonians no longer have to settle with driving up I-95 to see the Baltimore Orioles (or having to provide revenue to their much-hated owner, Peter Angelos), and a new stadium in Southeast has promised to revatilize an area best known for not being known at all.

But now that baseball is here, how are Washington area residents taking to the new team? Was the excitement of baseball limited to its anticipation, only to be quickly forgotten once the suspense ended? Or has the Washington area finally found a team they can call their own, to root for, to boast about, to stick to through good and bad?

Is baseball in Washington the ultimate NIMBY-ism? Are residents of Maryland and Virginia crazy for a team whose new stadium whose cost they will not fund and whose toll on city infrastructure they will not suffer from, and conversely, are District residents generally unconcerned with a team whose very name and mascot seems to evoke everything but city spirit and identity?

What do DCist readers think? Is our hometeam simply the Expos-in-residence or something that represents and speaks to the region? Do we share the sentiments of the young child pictured above?

The image was taken from Reuters, via Yahoo! News.