by Mac G, Mac G's World
If you have ever purchased tickets from MLB’s website, the “reward” is being automatically signed up for the individual team’s and MLB’s email list. The constant spam is your typical promotional type of information that immediately finds my trash folder without even opening it.
However, this subject heading email from Nationals.com immediately piqued my curiosity.
Meet Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives) and Gabrielle Union at Ladies Night! 
Further investigation into the details of this event was required. I love how it included the Desperate Housewives in parenthesis.
Ladies Night
Nationals vs. Cardinals
WAS vs STL
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Nationals Park, Garage B Rooftop
Events begin at 5 p.m. • First Pitch at 7:10 p.m.
Don't miss out, buy your ticket now to Ladies' Night 2008, with The Savvy Girls of Summer.
For only $30, you receive entry to the pregame party,
a Scoreboard Pavilion seat and a full evening of fun!
A bunch of women tailgating on a parking ramp while they gawk at a bunch of B rate TV celebs just tickles my funny bone.
It gets better as the night will include:
Nationals Player Appearances (Rob Mackowiak and Jesus Flores autographs always bring in the ladies. For possible baby mama repercussions, I hope Nats management keeps Elijah Dukes away from this event.)
"Dan the Man" - Diamond Club upgrades (Anyone with the nickname “The Man” sounds awesome)
Live DJ and entertainment (My guess would be Chip n Dale dancers but Nats ownership is too cheap)
Light food and drinks (Spritzers and Soggy Fries for sho)
Giveaways (Give that woman another white Nats TShirt with Bank Logo graffiti on it!)
Demos and sampling just for ladies (Free schwag is cool)
Book signing and presentation by The Savvy Girls of Summer ( Savvy sounds sophisticated)
Last year's sold-out event included (Sold Out? I did not know RFK and sold out ever were in the same sentence after the first game of 2005)
Manicures • Wine • Massage • Samples • Giveaways • and much more! (Wine, Manicure and Massage would get most women I know anywhere)
I kid because I care but I will pass on creeping around ladies night, snooping for blogger material because I already have tickets to the game. I am pumped because it is Ryan Zimmerman bobble head night.
Of course he just went on the DL, it is the Nationals Way!
Ladies Night at Nats Park
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
LADIES NIGHT AT NEW NATS PARK
Thursday, May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON DOES NOT DESERVE THE NATIONALS
by Brian P. Foley, The College Baseball Blog
One of the worst decisions of the last few years in MLB was the move of the Montreal Expos to Washington DC. The DC metro area has failed twice over the last 40 years in having a major league team and they have the Baltimore Orioles playing about 45 minutes away which provides a direct competitor to the Nationals.
Bud Selig sells the team to Ted Lerner to move them to Washington starting with the 2005 season where the team played at RFK stadium until the new facility opened up at the beginning of April. The new stadium has had ONE sell out this season which was the first game in the facility. They have not been able to get a sell out since opening night. Is this the best thing to be happening to a team which is only in their fourth season in the city? The ballpark should be packed night in and night out but they are struggling to have 50 percent capacity on most nights.
There are many reasons that the Nationals will fail in Washington DC with attendance being the major issue. Do you think the Nationals will succeed in Washington?
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
THE HOTEL MEANT FOR AN EMPEROR OR THE 2008 FLORIDA MARLINS
by Mac G, Mac G's World
The Florida Marlins are currently playing a three game series in Washington, DC at the Nationals new baseball stadium.
The most intriguing "news" angle is not about the games or the team's thoughts on the new park but where the Marlins players are resting their heads at night: The Mayflower Hotel.
The historic DC hotel is the location of the infamous February 13th paid tryst between then New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Emperor's Club call girl "Kristen." The hotel has turned into a tourist attraction.Hanley Ramirez, the Marlins' star shortstop, stepped outside the team hotel on his way to lunch when a tour bus screeched to a sudden stop on Connecticut Avenue.
Pressed against the windows, dozens of passengers aimed their cameras and snapped away. But they weren't photographing Ramirez. They were shooting the hotel's stately entrance with its famous sign - The Mayflower.
Few players were amused.
"I can't believe a tour bus would stop because that's where the governor did his thing,'' pitcher Scott Olsen said. "You have the White House and the monuments and the Capitol, and they stop at the Mayflower? That's ridiculous."
Olsen is avoiding Room 871 like his cheap ass owner's aversion to adding payroll."I'm not going anywhere near that room,'' Olsen said. "I'm not even going to venture to that floor. There's bad karma or something going on in that room."
Not all were scared of the sex romp locale which brought down the hypocritical Governor.Catcher Matt Treanor joked that he was staying in the room where Spitzer's alleged $4,300 tryst took place. Treanor actually was staying one floor below. Room 871 is temporarily off-limits, according to a desk clerk who did not want to be named, because visitors were knocking on the door and disturbing guests.
Most visiting sports teams stay at the Mayflower when playing against the Nationals, Capitals or Wizards. I eagerly await more articles like this in the upcoming future and it sure was more entertaining than sitting through a frigid evening of Nats/Fins sloppy baseball on Monday night.
Two weeks ago, the "871" placard on the door disappeared. "We're keeping an eye on eBay,'' said Joseph Cardone, the hotel's resident manager. A new placard has been installed, and the hotel will rent the room when the fervor dies down.
Marlins, Spitzer enjoy D.C.'s infamous Mayflower Staying at the Mayflower
Monday, March 10, 2008
2008 MLB PREVIEW: LETTER FROM THE NATIONALS' ELIJAH DUKES
by Simon, SimonOnSports
Yo Dawgs,
You all ready for some excitment in this piece? We be bringing some brand new flavor to Washington starting with me, Elijah Dukes. The Devil Rays couldn't handle my ferocity so they sent me to the great crime free city of Washington DC to reign supreme. So let me get you boys fired up about my new team of soldiers, my blood brothers.
Our rotation is going to be is going to be top notch. We got Shawn Hill. Pimp won 4 games last year. That's 4 more games than I won and we all know the skill level Elijah holds. Johnnie Patterson scored a touchdown in each game he pitched with his 7.47 ERA. Bergmann was even nastier than Hill, he dominated in 6 games. John Lannan is tough as nails, dude broke Chase Utley's wrist during a game. Matt Chico makes a mean taco salad. And you want depth shit we got depth son. Tim Redding and Tyler Clippard are former Yanks that's how ballin we are. We stole Yankee pitchers.
But enough about our rotation. Our team is gonna be straight Gangsta. You got me, DaMeat Hook, Ronnie Belliard, Christian Guzman, and of course my two out field boys Wily Mo and Lastings Milledge. We be the #1 rapping outfield in the nation. Check that Universe. And you know if we get in any bench clearing brawls we'll be pounding some skulls into the ground and painting home plate with the fools blood. We ain't messin around this season.
We even got new stomping grounds in DC. No more of that mile long football field crap they used to play. Na sir Elijah ain't gonna taint himself by playing in anything but a brand new stadium. We brought the fences in and na my boy Felipe Lopez can start hittin some homers again when he patrols the middle. And Zimmerman can show that he's than that Metro Sexual Met that's from his home town.
Better yet, you want some HGH? We got a Paul Lo Duca sponsored HGH tent in the centerfield bleachers. Just gotta place your order with Paulie 24 hours prior to the game and it's a simple pick up. Plus in June we got free syringe night, and free voice me from me. You ain't gonna pass up on that shit. Are you? You want me to bust your face in? Ya I didn't think so. No one fucks with Elijah.
Yo, and don't worry when you come to the field there will always be a fence between me and your womens so that's one less thing to worry about. I mean during the game of course. After the game I'm knocking them up and then bangin em in the ear.
Buy some fuckin tickets. I'm out.
DUKES
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
PNC BANK BUYS THE RIGHTS TO THE NATS' NEW ... SEATS?
by DCScrap, Editor
Not happy with merely owning the naming rights to one of the most beautiful stadiums owned by one of the worst baseball teams in baseball, PNC Bank has set it's sights even higher by purchasing the rights to the new Nationals stadium... uh... seats. Wow, this is a bank that knows how to raise the bar. I need to open an IRA there pronto.
The deal, whose financial value team marketer Tod Rosensweig would not disclose, gives the Pittsburgh-based bank naming rights for about 1,300 Diamond Seats behind home plate and the indoor/outdoor club on the first suite level above those seats. The bank also has all the ballpark's ATMs.
I bet those ATM's charge a fee* if you don't bank with PNC too, which in turn pisses every single person off that is forced to pay an extra $2 or whatever so they have some walking around money to pay for their overpriced beer and hot dogs. Ballparks are like airports in that way. No connection to the reality in the rest of the world as far as pricing, but I digress.
These particular seats are already the highest priced seats in the stadium so it makes sense that the people plunking down $150 a game (with a minimum three-year committment) should have to have a corporate logo staring them in the face all season. Oh well, at least they have access to a gourmet buffet inside a separate restaurant. That'll make up for it.
The marketing folk at PNC must be super-geniuses. First they sponsor the Pirates, now the Nats, what's next on the horizon, the Dolphins? Sorry. That was just low.
*correct me if I am wrong.
Baltimore Business Journal
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