Politics, Our National Pasttime

When I was eleven, the Washington Senators and their owner Bob Short generously left the nation's capital and moved their operation into the old Turnpike Stadium on Interstate 30 in Arlington, Texas. By that point I had already gone a number of times to see the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs play Texas League games in the same ballpark.

Now, decades later, I have given up my loyalty to the Texas Rangers in favor of the Oakland A's (although I maintain my National League allegiance to the Houston Astro's) and major league baseball is returning to Washington D.C.

The Christian Science Monitor has a nice think piece about how Washington has changed in the last 32 years and how the power brokers of today are jockeying for prime seats at Washington Nationals games.

Now we can only pray that some foul balls will clunk the Bill Kristols and George Will's of the world and put us all out of our misery.