Ah...The games people play. Especially in a town like Washington DC, where appearances are everything. Including, it would seem, your seating at a baseball game. This is the Washington equivalent to the Races at Ascot.
Bob Novak certainly didn't do himself any favors when he complained that his right field season tickets were "too close to Baltimore", before he called to complain and have them switched to a firrst row 200 level between home and first base.
Major League Baseball is returning to Washington after a 34-year absence, but the game of connections and status never left town. So for months, VIPs from business, politics and the media have been working to get choice tickets to Nationals games, with the best seats at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium taking on the cachet of a prime table at the Palm.
Not too surprisngly, lobbyists and large corporations often have the best season tickets, which they then dole out to members of Congress or the Senate.
If it's anything like the Camden Yards skybox I was in last night, the patrician veneer will be mildly undercut by the plebeian tastes of they who think that sort of shit is important; nothing but Bud & Bud Lite in the fridge. Mmm, rice-y.
If it's anything like the Camden Yards skybox I was in last night, the patrician veneer will be mildly undercut by the plebeian tastes of they who think that sort of shit is important; nothing but Bud & Bud Lite in the fridge. Mmm, rice-y.