Quite the sports weekend for the greater DC area. Something for everyone as they say. We’ll start out at RFK with the DC United and NY Red Bulls match, for no other reason except that I was there with the pictures to prove it. Despite considering myself to be quite the soccer fan, I’m ashamed to say that this was my first ever United game. And when the Red Bulls scored twice in the first…
Apr 22, 2005
The End of the Beginning
This DCist finally got to see a baseball game at RFK yesterday afternoon when Nationals met Atlanta for the final game of their first-ever homestand. Having lucked into six tickets — a trio of 100-level seats just above first base and a trio of 300-level seats not far away — this DCist and two co-workers knew what we had to do: scalp the 300-levels for beer money. And so we did, making it into the…
Mar 01, 2005
Armas? No Mas!
Spring may not have arrived in the mid-Atlantic region just yet, but down in Viera, Fla. — where the Nationals have been training for the past few weeks — it’s practically summer. Good thing, because the ex-Expos play their first game with an interlocking D.C. on their uniforms there tomorrow, against the New York Metropolitans (but against Tom Glavine, not Pedro). Game time is 1:05 p.m. Weather should be 62 degrees and partly cloudy. If…