Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders

Welcome to Bland Ballpark where the team has a case of the Mondays

"It looks like an office park," says a very confused Dabbo while looking up at the cinderblock fortress that is Nationals Park, home of the craptastic Washington Nationals. Yeah, it's pretty bland, like dry white toast bland.

I'm surprised there weren't cubicles built into the bleachers. As one of the newest ballparks in the Majors, the blandness of the design is disappointing, particularly having just visited The Jake and PNC with Camden next on the itinerary.

To Baltimore Ravens  ... The long way
The distance between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore isn't terribly long. Unfortunately, Washington, D.C. city planners designed the road system on an Etch-A-Sketch during an earthquake, so it took 45 minutes to get out of the city.

Mercifully, the notorious traffic between the two metropolitan areas was light, even for a Saturday night, so we only missed the first inning of the Orioles -Mets tilt. On the way into the stadium I managed to snag a photo with the Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders (all of life is timing). Side note to Dabbo's fiancé: Only I had my photo taken, Colin looked at his shoes the whole time. I swear.

I'm not sure what I can say about Camden Yards that hasn't been said a million times before. Combine my assessment of The Jake with PNC and that about nails it.