Saturday, March 24, 2007
A Tale Of Baseball Cheapness

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So I'm driving to Home Depot this afternoon and listening to the Washington
Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals spring training game.

That's right, Home Depot. ("Well, um, actually a pretty nice little
Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe
get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know,
I don't know if we'll have enough time.")

Apropos of nothing, the announcer tells us that the Washington Nationals
Radio Network and some insurance company (forget which one) will donate $100
to the Boys and Girls Club of Washington for each home run the Nationals hit
at RFK this year.

Sounds nice, right?

Hardly. Consider:

1. They are donating money only for home runs hit at RFK, a notoriously bad
home run park.

2. They are only donating $100 per home run.

3. The Nationals suck.

So let's do the math: As a team, the Nationals hit 74 home runs at home last
season - with nearly a third of those coming from Alfonso Soriano (24). In
2005, the Nationals hit 46 home runs at RFK.

Generously splitting the difference, we'll project the Nationals will hit 60
home runs at RFK in 2007 - meaning the Washington Nationals Radio Network
and this insurance company will give a grand total of $6,000 to the Boys and
Girls Clubs of Washington.

$6,000. And that gets them at least one mention on 81 (and presumably 162)
Washington Nationals regular-season broadcasts this season, not to mention
spring training games?

Between Wrigleyville and The Sarge, we here at Wrigleyville23 can basically
swing $1,000 a month over a six-month season (if I fire the nanny, but
whatever). We very well may need to sponsor something else for the
Nationals, since they are selling out area charities so cheaply (while
bragging about their generosity).

It certainly won't be the "call to the bullpen," because there will be
thousands of those.

Cheap jerks.

Posted by Wrigleyville at 7:46 PM

Labels: Washington Nationals

2 comments:

Daedalus said...

I can't decide if this ownership group is worse than having no owners...
March 24, 2007 10:06:00 PM EST
Wrigleyville said...

oh, nothing is worse than no owners (or bud owner). nothing.

plus, you can get hard times chili at rfk now!
March 24, 2007 10:14:00 PM EST

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