A Day At Nationals Park

On Sunday we trekked down to Southeast DC to the new home of the newest MLB baseball team, The Washington Nationals. The Nationals play in brand new Nationals Park. Eventually I can assure everyone that it will be renamed with a large sponsor paying for that right but until that time comes around it remains free of a sponsored moniker.
The stadium is located on the corner of N Street and 1/2 Street putting it right up against the Anacostia River. For those of you that know DC and where that is it must elicit strong responses as it is not the place where the un-addicted ever wanted to be. There is a lot of construction going on around the new park and it looks like there will be a great new neighborhood in a few short years.
The entrance to the park is only about a block from the Navy Yard Metro station which made it convenient to park elsewhere and ride the train to the game. There is only limited parking for high end season ticket owners so unless you're interested in the old fashioned Southeast DC way of protecting your vehicle (paying off a homeless guy to make sure you had a car when you came back) it is better to take the Metro.
The park itself is nothing spectacular. I think that Camden Yards (Baltimore), ATT Park (San Fran) and Comerica Park (Detroit) all have far more charm and parts of the new stadium even seem thrown together as an afterthought (the press box for example. Anyway, I enjoyed the day with the group and look forward to visiting again. I would like to get back and maybe go up to Baltimore for an Oriole's game. Also I'm toying with the idea of a weekend run to Milwaukee for a Brewers game and a trip to Chicago to see the Cubs in Wrigley Field.
Enjoy the pictures of the new park!