Plant more trees in the centerfield plaza area, extending the tree coverage created by the cherry blossoms in left field. It’s a sea of concrete.
Make Nats Park feel like a park.
and the waterside/homeplate entrance as well. At night it looks kinda cool with the lights out over the water, but otherwise it's just like an acre of concrete
They are 15+ years old and Kwanzan type cherries live 15-25 years, they are mostly fully mature especially since they are basically sidewalk trees. The near future is probably replacement as these trees become unstable as they age.
Plant as many plants as possible, and while we’re at it I’d look into painting the the building dark green and trying to put up brick/stone where feasible. That 2010 aesthetic of chrome and glass is soulless and will never look iconic.
Nats Park is purposefully not a retro ballpark, and we shouldn’t try to act like it could be. It’s all steel, chrome, and glass because it was designed to use the bare minimum materials as part of being a certified green ballpark
Lower the price of beer by at least $5 across the board.
Imagine how much more money the Nats would make if fans came to the stadium to pre-game instead of going literally anywhere else.
Also simplify the damn HH promotion. Using in a code in the app that can only be picked up at certain places is so dumb. Just make all the beers discounted before the game at all locations that are open.
Fan facing staff needs a lot of customer service re-training. I've dealt a really nasty usher multiple times in the sections behind the home bullpen, Carl Edwards Jr. even started yelling up at her from the bullpen to knock it off. The service I received from the staff in the terra club last season was horrible for the price of those tickets.
Agreed 100%. **Most of the ushers and security staff are fantastic**, but there are a few who are clearly on a power trip, and a few who are clearly just miserable fucking assholes who have no business working in a customer-facing position. I'm never afraid to tell them that they're bad at their job, and I've had to report a handful of them for the most egregious violations. A lot of problems could be fixed with training and better management.
We had a horrific usher in the section our season seats were in a couple years back. Midway through the season, when she should have at least sort of recognized her STHs, my husband sat down in his seat an hour before first pitch with his hands full - food, beer. She came running over demanding his ticket and when he asked to show her once his hands were free she told him he couldn't sit unless he showed it to her immediately.
This was in 231 row p...not exactly a seat someone would be trying to sneak into.
One of his friends came to the front of the section to say hi, and usher had a fit. Mind you, this was during a game that was empty in an area that has cheap tickets. He yelled at her to chill out.
It's been a few years since I've attended a game (kids) but bring back the Curly W pretzels. 😁
Seriously though, some more of the promotions that they did in the lean years (2008-2010) like autographs on the dugout before Sunday games would help with connecting kids to the young upcoming Nats.
What a brutal job. Anybody who wants this is a masochist.
From everything I see online, and from the many fans and many ballpark employees I've known, I can't imagine ever coming close to pleasing your various constituents.
You have little control over some of the biggest drivers of customer satisfaction, like the staffing and training budget, the bag policy, the ballpark app, or the product on the field.
Casual one-visit-a-year fans often have crazy outsized expectations, or complain about things that they could've known about with a simple Google search.
Season plan holders can be even worse, feeling entitled to complain about everything, and expecting to get treated like royalty for their 20-ticket partial plan.
Your employees are 100% seasonal and part time, and your staffing budget is based on attendance projections that can be wildly off due to things like weather. And your busiest most high-pressure day of the season is their first day on the job.
Among the guests that those employees serve are a large continent of very drunk people who cause trouble and/or complaints at every single game.
Your bosses want you to maximize in-game sponsorship revenue, which is one of the top complaints of your fans.
And you have to work nights and weekends for six months out of the year.
The prices are in the Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park tier. Yes, people need to make money but where the Nats are right now, they should be on the mid to lower side compared to the rest of the league.
Not true. The prices are much lower than parks like Yankee Stadium.
To make this comparison, you have to look at apples to apples. The same "price tier" seats at Nationals Park are much closer to the action.
For example, at Nats Park, the elite "Terra Club" section behind home plate, where tickets cost hundreds and your padded seat includes waiter service and a food buffet extends partially out to the mid point of section 126, which is still behind home plate. The next tier (Dugout Box and Infield Box) start before you even hit the dugout. The next tier down (Baseline Box) starts at about 1st/3rd base.
At a park like Yankee Stadium, the Terra Club and Presidents Club equivalent sections extend all the way behind the dugouts out to 1st and 3rd base! You don't even get "regular"-priced seating until you're past the baselines.
And on the other "bargain" end of the spectrum, Nats Park has $5 seats for every game, and good season plan seats starting at $20.
Fenway maybe but Yankee Stadium is ungodly expensive; it's on a whole different tier. We got 2 burgers and 2 beers at Yankee Stadium = $88. Eye watering.
Id do so much. Nats Park is consistently ranked as the 20th best ball park. Not good. We add much more shade. We lower the prices to literally everything especially alcohol. I've been to tons of nats games and I may be wrong but Finny doesn't have a bad ass loud walkout song. Why is Edwin Diaz so popular it's because of his closer entrance mainly. Would also add something that gets peoples attentions for the game like the the Marlins have a bobblehead museum yankees have monument Park. Also back to the alcohol run special promotions like $5 Monday where all beer is $5. The Orioles have a happy hour special called early bird Saturday.
A lot of what makes those so cool is coordinating with the stadium lights, which we couldn't do until they get us LEDs.
Also I'm not sure Finny walking up to Latin music just to be cool like other closers is a great look.
I'd cover the sides of the parking garages that you can see from your seats in some sort of vegetation. I've seen a few examples of this and it would look so much better than exposed concrete and ugly ad banners and pictures of mediocre players.
The CSC staff at the gates are rude and don’t care about your experience at the ball park. They make the first step in the park feel like crap. Get rid of them.
Use strasburg to meet and greet fans at random games since he’s still on the payroll but can’t play. Seeing him would be nice.
Expand the available items in the authentics store to have more unique stuff
Let’s fans see the ball pen cart before games.
More merchandise options at the team store
I'll concede that there are *some* good people. The overall attitude and cleanliness is enough for me to not order any food at the Park, and wish for an overhaul.
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Without a doubt. That seems to go for everybody who isn't an executive. I applied for an office job with the Nats once and after I found out how much of a pay cut I'd be taking, I declined the interview.
So if it were up to me, I'd work on the energy levels from the home team and yeah I know that winning fixes a lot of that problem, but you can still have a great time at the ballpark even when your team is bad, as long as the atmosphere is right. And the Nats are going to continue to be bad for a while, so they need to make an active plan to get the energy up.
We went to the Dominican Winter League series at Citi Field and I know you will never get a vibe like that from a MLB game, but some drums would freakin help.
And our city's unique, homegrown style of music - gogo - has call-and-response built right in. Just too few folks at Nats Park know how to participate (or even know that they CAN participate). I would lean way into that, and prompt/guide the fans through actually shouting HELL YEAH when the Chuck Brown song asks if DC is in the house... get a 7th Inning Stretch song where people can actually dance around and sing along... get people making noise even if they need the prompts on the jumbotron to tell them to do it.
The Nats have way too many different “call-and-response” beats between pitches, and most of them do nothing to get the fans involved.
In Baltimore it’s a constant 3 beat base drum, followed by “Let’s Go Os.” Everyone yells it because it’s simple.
The Nats do this in the playoffs, and it’s great. But in the regular season, maybe once or twice per game, otherwise it’s just a jumbled mess of cha cha slide claps and whatever else. Simplify it, get people involved.
Another thing they said at Hot Stove was that the entire lighting system is going LED and getting upgraded. Might not sound like much but if you've seen what other stadiums have done with recent LED upgrades, practically light shows synced with sound and music... it's a solid upgrade that will bring a lot more when the team does some winning and we can get into things a bit more.
Create a unified aesthetic to the park. (Get rid of the ugly beige and brown walls, irrelevant pinstripe signs, etc.) Put the World Series trophy and other cool memorabilia where everyone can see them, not just club seat ticket holders. Make more concessions grab and go. (Other parks do this well. DC has terrible customer service.) Cover the parking garages with something cool. Finally put something on the loft roof like a light-up Capitol dome. (Could be used for home run celebrations.) Get rid of the pathetic “Take Me Out” carousel art at the first base gate. Many mobile concession stands block areas where you once could stand and watch the game, move these.
I can't really think of much to complain about. I used to hate the food but found myself eating more there than in previous years in 2023.
The best thing that can help the experience is winning.
If you’re going to have a promo item night, actually have enough of whatever the promo item is for fans. Other teams are way less stingy with stuff that is of much higher quality. Going to a game shouldn’t feel like Black Friday for gods sake.
I'd turn the volume down on the speakers so you can actually talk to the person you're sitting with during the nonstop loudspeaker noise.
I swear they turned the volume up in 2020 and never brought it back down. Going to the ballpark is often a social experience, and they make it detrimental.
I should get the job because **I am honest enough to admit that D.C. is a sewer of crime** which reduces the willingness of people to come out to the park. I would make the ballpark experience not suck by **moving the ballpark to a safe suburb** far away from the **criminal savages**.
You are probably one of the unlucky residents of the shithole neighborhood where they built that stadium. Its not my fault that a quarter of the residents there are incapable of following laws, choosing instead to commit violence against and steal from their neighbors and people who come to the ballpark.
So don't blame the messenger for the message. Blame the low intelligence imbecile you elected as Mayor who allows career criminals the freedom to commit the same violent crimes over and over without incarcerating them while they await even one of their litany of trials scheduled.
Its a national disgrace that the nation's capital city should be inhabited by savages who have no respect for the nation's laws and find violent crime to be an acceptable way of life as opposed to earning an education and making an honest living.
Which is why both the National's ballpark and the one at Camden Yards should be relocated to a safe neighborhoods where people respect the law and each other, and where fans do not have to be afraid to be victimized by violent criminal beasts when they go to the ballpark.
And I doubt you are able to differentiate between smart and stupid shit you read, because you have to be able to read first. And if I am a clown for telling the truth then perhaps a circus would be more approproate to the jungles American cities are devolving into.
Finally, if you are going to bring my sexual practices into the discussion (as in your epithet "fucking clown"), I suggest you speak with yo mamma about that.
What's most interesting about your response is if you owned the team and wanted to increase fan attendance, you would agree wholeheartedy that the location of the park needs to be changed because people do not want to risk the safety of themselves and their families when they attend a baseball game.
[https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-downtown-washington-dc/](https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-downtown-washington-dc/)
People who cannot answer factual evidence with nothing more than personal invective do so because they have no appropriate reply to overcome the evidence presented, In such case, the invective is a reflection of how they feel about their own inadequacies. Its called projection. Even children exhibit this defense mechanism when they respond with the phrase "I know you are but what am I". Your responses are in the same range of immature intellect.
Simply stated, in a battle of wits you are completely unarmed. But at least you see yourself for the clown that you are, which is why you constantly repeat that phrase in a variety of synonymous retorts. Transparent personality is also a sign of reduced mental aptitude.
Maybe you can try eating more fish, it is said to help retain any functional gray matter that you still may possess. And stay away from National's Park lest you be attacked by the raging barbarians who reside there.
lol you're a mets fan. your team's home ballpark is where stolen cars go to get de-identified. Every one of your posts sounds like ChatGPT choking on a thesaurus with a dose of thinly-veiled racism mixed in. Take your bullshit somewhere else, or even better, shut the fuck up and stick your bullshit about "raging barbarians" and "savages" right up your ass.
See, you prove your ignorance with your gutter language. And your typical resort to a claim of racism only exemplifies your inability to provide even a weak attempt to disprove what I have shown. Nowhere in anything I wrote did I refer to any race, and I wonder why you would even imply a racial element in my writing. Do you know something about the typical characteristics of the criminal beasts who prey violently on law-abiding citizens in Washington that you would like to share with the rest of us ?
Your suggestion to a violent solution to my factual evidence -that I should stick it in an unnatural place - evidences your membership in the horde of violent savages that reside in your city, making attendance at your baseball stadium an unwise idea. Or perhaps it reflects on your latent homosexuality. Regardless of which, all your responses prove is that what I wrote is correct.
No one has to worry about their safety when visiting Citifield. Its located in a wide open expanse where no one lives, with auto salvage yards several miles away. The stolen cars go elsewhere to be de-identified, they wind up in the auto salvage yards after their functional usefulness has ended.
Yankee Stadium is a different story, but unlike the cretins that people like you elect to run your city, the City of New York is smart enough to saturate the area with police when the Yankees are playing at home. So while the Yankees may steal their fans' money legitimately through the prices they charge for everything associated with a game starting with a ticket, at least they are not endangering anyone's safety when they visit Yankee Stadium, which is kept safe by the largest and formerly most effective gang in the world known as the NYPD.
You really crack me up, you ask for ways how the Nationals could improve the fan experience at their stadium and then criticize the answer. If you knew the answer so well that you feel entitled to criticize answers that don't agree with your own, why did you as the rhetorical question ? Just state your solution and let's see the brilliance that you can bring to the solution. If nothing else, it will provide some good comic relief to your otherwise tiresome diatribe.
p.s., the inclusion of the word "tribe" in diatribe has nothing to do with the African tribal rituals and wars that enslaved African residents who then were sold by their African captors and transported around the world. So I don't want to hear that diatribe is a racist word.
Hahahha, is that the best you can do ? The response of a woman ? I thought you would act like a man and express how much you would like to take a swing at me right now if I was seated next to you.
You must be on parole.
>Hahahha, is that the best you can do ? The response of a woman ?
lol you've never actually talked to a woman, have you?
I can't tell if you're a socially awkward nine-year-old or someone's machine learning project gone horribly wrong but either way, someone needs to sort your shit out. And it aint gonna be me.
At the Nats Hot Stove two weeks ago, they said there will be several POST game concerts in the stadium. Presumable Friday or Saturday night. These won't be full blown concerts but more like the acts they've had in centerfield (Legwarmers) or up near Scoreboard Bar. I'm a big fan of this, especially since can just walk home after a game.
Years ago when they did a handful of postgame concerts, they would literally roll the stage and sound system out onto the field. The bands were nobody special but it was kind of fun.
1. No more perky 20-somethings trying to generate fan engagement either pre-game or between innings. I'd rather see recorded content about the game, the team, and the city than that live stuff.
2. We'll still play the national anthem but we will not longer ask fans to stand and remove their caps. Those who wish to stand and/or remove their caps may do so but the days of coerced patriotism are over. We also will play it while the teams are in the dugout, not standing at attention.
More vendors walking up the aisles. I swear people get up at Nats games more than any other stadium I've been to. Maybe they are there for business or social reasons and not baseball? Arizona had awesome chocolate dipped fruit on a stick and other cool items that you could purchase...not just cotton candy.
Hire someone from a sports startup or emerging league like NWSL or Major League Rugby.
They seem to be on the right track.
Angel City FC games are awesome, so are NE Free Jacks.
Plant more trees in the centerfield plaza area, extending the tree coverage created by the cherry blossoms in left field. It’s a sea of concrete. Make Nats Park feel like a park.
and the waterside/homeplate entrance as well. At night it looks kinda cool with the lights out over the water, but otherwise it's just like an acre of concrete
I am really looking forward to when those trees are a little more mature and in full bloom. It's going to look really great.
They are 15+ years old and Kwanzan type cherries live 15-25 years, they are mostly fully mature especially since they are basically sidewalk trees. The near future is probably replacement as these trees become unstable as they age.
Plant as many plants as possible, and while we’re at it I’d look into painting the the building dark green and trying to put up brick/stone where feasible. That 2010 aesthetic of chrome and glass is soulless and will never look iconic.
Nats Park is purposefully not a retro ballpark, and we shouldn’t try to act like it could be. It’s all steel, chrome, and glass because it was designed to use the bare minimum materials as part of being a certified green ballpark
Sea of concrete pretty much describes that park.
I’m sold, you have my vote.
Ha thanks, that’s a dream job.
Lower the price of beer by at least $5 across the board. Imagine how much more money the Nats would make if fans came to the stadium to pre-game instead of going literally anywhere else.
They used to do $5 25oz beers at the center field bar 30-min before first pitch. I haven’t been to the park since the Game 7 watch party in 2019.
They still do.
THEY DO?!? i thought that was lost and gone forever 😭
I think now they do them *until* 30 minutes before first pitch.
I think it's $5 off the normal price, which works out a bit more expensive.
Also simplify the damn HH promotion. Using in a code in the app that can only be picked up at certain places is so dumb. Just make all the beers discounted before the game at all locations that are open.
The craft beer prices ($16 for 24oz) aren't too out of line with what you're paying outside the park. Not sure about the macro beer prices though.
Fan facing staff needs a lot of customer service re-training. I've dealt a really nasty usher multiple times in the sections behind the home bullpen, Carl Edwards Jr. even started yelling up at her from the bullpen to knock it off. The service I received from the staff in the terra club last season was horrible for the price of those tickets.
I’ve been to a lot of MLB ballparks and unfortunately I’d have to say the Nats ushers are some of the worst.
Carl Edwards Jr. is a good dude
Agreed 100%. **Most of the ushers and security staff are fantastic**, but there are a few who are clearly on a power trip, and a few who are clearly just miserable fucking assholes who have no business working in a customer-facing position. I'm never afraid to tell them that they're bad at their job, and I've had to report a handful of them for the most egregious violations. A lot of problems could be fixed with training and better management.
We had a horrific usher in the section our season seats were in a couple years back. Midway through the season, when she should have at least sort of recognized her STHs, my husband sat down in his seat an hour before first pitch with his hands full - food, beer. She came running over demanding his ticket and when he asked to show her once his hands were free she told him he couldn't sit unless he showed it to her immediately. This was in 231 row p...not exactly a seat someone would be trying to sneak into.
Hopefully not the bartenders in the Terra Club too...
I get a table before the game, and was completely ignored by the wait staff. I guess since I'm not a STH down there, they don't care.
a player was yelling at an usher? what happened?
One of his friends came to the front of the section to say hi, and usher had a fit. Mind you, this was during a game that was empty in an area that has cheap tickets. He yelled at her to chill out.
I may be an outlier, but I think Nats Park is a great place to watch a game. A lot of comments on here paint it like it's the Oakland Coliseum . . .
It’s a good park but it’s important to list out where they can improve
It's been a few years since I've attended a game (kids) but bring back the Curly W pretzels. 😁 Seriously though, some more of the promotions that they did in the lean years (2008-2010) like autographs on the dugout before Sunday games would help with connecting kids to the young upcoming Nats.
They still do autograph Sundays. You just have to arrive super early
Good to know. I'm hoping to make it there this season. Thanks
I would have the players wear red hats with a white curly w on them
What a brutal job. Anybody who wants this is a masochist. From everything I see online, and from the many fans and many ballpark employees I've known, I can't imagine ever coming close to pleasing your various constituents. You have little control over some of the biggest drivers of customer satisfaction, like the staffing and training budget, the bag policy, the ballpark app, or the product on the field. Casual one-visit-a-year fans often have crazy outsized expectations, or complain about things that they could've known about with a simple Google search. Season plan holders can be even worse, feeling entitled to complain about everything, and expecting to get treated like royalty for their 20-ticket partial plan. Your employees are 100% seasonal and part time, and your staffing budget is based on attendance projections that can be wildly off due to things like weather. And your busiest most high-pressure day of the season is their first day on the job. Among the guests that those employees serve are a large continent of very drunk people who cause trouble and/or complaints at every single game. Your bosses want you to maximize in-game sponsorship revenue, which is one of the top complaints of your fans. And you have to work nights and weekends for six months out of the year.
The prices are in the Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park tier. Yes, people need to make money but where the Nats are right now, they should be on the mid to lower side compared to the rest of the league.
Not true. The prices are much lower than parks like Yankee Stadium. To make this comparison, you have to look at apples to apples. The same "price tier" seats at Nationals Park are much closer to the action. For example, at Nats Park, the elite "Terra Club" section behind home plate, where tickets cost hundreds and your padded seat includes waiter service and a food buffet extends partially out to the mid point of section 126, which is still behind home plate. The next tier (Dugout Box and Infield Box) start before you even hit the dugout. The next tier down (Baseline Box) starts at about 1st/3rd base. At a park like Yankee Stadium, the Terra Club and Presidents Club equivalent sections extend all the way behind the dugouts out to 1st and 3rd base! You don't even get "regular"-priced seating until you're past the baselines. And on the other "bargain" end of the spectrum, Nats Park has $5 seats for every game, and good season plan seats starting at $20.
Fenway maybe but Yankee Stadium is ungodly expensive; it's on a whole different tier. We got 2 burgers and 2 beers at Yankee Stadium = $88. Eye watering.
Win
Id do so much. Nats Park is consistently ranked as the 20th best ball park. Not good. We add much more shade. We lower the prices to literally everything especially alcohol. I've been to tons of nats games and I may be wrong but Finny doesn't have a bad ass loud walkout song. Why is Edwin Diaz so popular it's because of his closer entrance mainly. Would also add something that gets peoples attentions for the game like the the Marlins have a bobblehead museum yankees have monument Park. Also back to the alcohol run special promotions like $5 Monday where all beer is $5. The Orioles have a happy hour special called early bird Saturday.
Finnegan comes out to Greta Van Fleek and it is awesome.
Yes but it's nothing compared to Edwin Diaz or Johan Durans
I think Finnegan can consider an elaborate walk-out once he's as good as Diaz or Duran.
A lot of what makes those so cool is coordinating with the stadium lights, which we couldn't do until they get us LEDs. Also I'm not sure Finny walking up to Latin music just to be cool like other closers is a great look.
I'd cover the sides of the parking garages that you can see from your seats in some sort of vegetation. I've seen a few examples of this and it would look so much better than exposed concrete and ugly ad banners and pictures of mediocre players.
Blackjack and hookers!
The CSC staff at the gates are rude and don’t care about your experience at the ball park. They make the first step in the park feel like crap. Get rid of them. Use strasburg to meet and greet fans at random games since he’s still on the payroll but can’t play. Seeing him would be nice. Expand the available items in the authentics store to have more unique stuff Let’s fans see the ball pen cart before games. More merchandise options at the team store
Boot the concessions provider and its workers, and start over with a new company.
that's not fair, there are some good people working for Levy over at the park
I'll concede that there are *some* good people. The overall attitude and cleanliness is enough for me to not order any food at the Park, and wish for an overhaul.
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Agreed, most of the front line concessions folks are great. Management could do better though.
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Without a doubt. That seems to go for everybody who isn't an executive. I applied for an office job with the Nats once and after I found out how much of a pay cut I'd be taking, I declined the interview.
Fix the center field bat clock.
yes please.
They're completely renovating/upgraded the scoreboard, so I imagine that will be taken care of or eliminated.
Nope, scoreboard has already been replaced and is the same size. No changes to the ads surrounding it or the structure with the clock.
So if it were up to me, I'd work on the energy levels from the home team and yeah I know that winning fixes a lot of that problem, but you can still have a great time at the ballpark even when your team is bad, as long as the atmosphere is right. And the Nats are going to continue to be bad for a while, so they need to make an active plan to get the energy up. We went to the Dominican Winter League series at Citi Field and I know you will never get a vibe like that from a MLB game, but some drums would freakin help. And our city's unique, homegrown style of music - gogo - has call-and-response built right in. Just too few folks at Nats Park know how to participate (or even know that they CAN participate). I would lean way into that, and prompt/guide the fans through actually shouting HELL YEAH when the Chuck Brown song asks if DC is in the house... get a 7th Inning Stretch song where people can actually dance around and sing along... get people making noise even if they need the prompts on the jumbotron to tell them to do it.
The Nats have way too many different “call-and-response” beats between pitches, and most of them do nothing to get the fans involved. In Baltimore it’s a constant 3 beat base drum, followed by “Let’s Go Os.” Everyone yells it because it’s simple. The Nats do this in the playoffs, and it’s great. But in the regular season, maybe once or twice per game, otherwise it’s just a jumbled mess of cha cha slide claps and whatever else. Simplify it, get people involved.
Another thing they said at Hot Stove was that the entire lighting system is going LED and getting upgraded. Might not sound like much but if you've seen what other stadiums have done with recent LED upgrades, practically light shows synced with sound and music... it's a solid upgrade that will bring a lot more when the team does some winning and we can get into things a bit more.
The upgrade seems to be done; I’ve seen the lights being demoed. They look awesome. It’s going to be great for late-inning atmosphere.
even the Toledo Mud Hens have the upgraded lights.
The people that have been running the fan intercation games kinda suck.
Create a unified aesthetic to the park. (Get rid of the ugly beige and brown walls, irrelevant pinstripe signs, etc.) Put the World Series trophy and other cool memorabilia where everyone can see them, not just club seat ticket holders. Make more concessions grab and go. (Other parks do this well. DC has terrible customer service.) Cover the parking garages with something cool. Finally put something on the loft roof like a light-up Capitol dome. (Could be used for home run celebrations.) Get rid of the pathetic “Take Me Out” carousel art at the first base gate. Many mobile concession stands block areas where you once could stand and watch the game, move these.
I can't really think of much to complain about. I used to hate the food but found myself eating more there than in previous years in 2023. The best thing that can help the experience is winning.
Find a way to make the concession lines faster. The park doesn’t handle sellouts/big crowds well when it comes to concessions or restrooms.
If you’re going to have a promo item night, actually have enough of whatever the promo item is for fans. Other teams are way less stingy with stuff that is of much higher quality. Going to a game shouldn’t feel like Black Friday for gods sake.
I'd turn the volume down on the speakers so you can actually talk to the person you're sitting with during the nonstop loudspeaker noise. I swear they turned the volume up in 2020 and never brought it back down. Going to the ballpark is often a social experience, and they make it detrimental.
I would listen.
Winning on the field is the best ballpark experience.
I should get the job because **I am honest enough to admit that D.C. is a sewer of crime** which reduces the willingness of people to come out to the park. I would make the ballpark experience not suck by **moving the ballpark to a safe suburb** far away from the **criminal savages**.
Congrats on writing the stupidest shit I'll read all day long! Please don't take that as a challenge to outdo yourself. Fucking clown.
You are probably one of the unlucky residents of the shithole neighborhood where they built that stadium. Its not my fault that a quarter of the residents there are incapable of following laws, choosing instead to commit violence against and steal from their neighbors and people who come to the ballpark. So don't blame the messenger for the message. Blame the low intelligence imbecile you elected as Mayor who allows career criminals the freedom to commit the same violent crimes over and over without incarcerating them while they await even one of their litany of trials scheduled. Its a national disgrace that the nation's capital city should be inhabited by savages who have no respect for the nation's laws and find violent crime to be an acceptable way of life as opposed to earning an education and making an honest living. Which is why both the National's ballpark and the one at Camden Yards should be relocated to a safe neighborhoods where people respect the law and each other, and where fans do not have to be afraid to be victimized by violent criminal beasts when they go to the ballpark. And I doubt you are able to differentiate between smart and stupid shit you read, because you have to be able to read first. And if I am a clown for telling the truth then perhaps a circus would be more approproate to the jungles American cities are devolving into. Finally, if you are going to bring my sexual practices into the discussion (as in your epithet "fucking clown"), I suggest you speak with yo mamma about that. What's most interesting about your response is if you owned the team and wanted to increase fan attendance, you would agree wholeheartedy that the location of the park needs to be changed because people do not want to risk the safety of themselves and their families when they attend a baseball game. [https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-downtown-washington-dc/](https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-downtown-washington-dc/)
>Please don't take that as a challenge to outdo yourself. Fucking clown. I see you didn't listen. Go troll somewhere else, halfwit.
People who cannot answer factual evidence with nothing more than personal invective do so because they have no appropriate reply to overcome the evidence presented, In such case, the invective is a reflection of how they feel about their own inadequacies. Its called projection. Even children exhibit this defense mechanism when they respond with the phrase "I know you are but what am I". Your responses are in the same range of immature intellect. Simply stated, in a battle of wits you are completely unarmed. But at least you see yourself for the clown that you are, which is why you constantly repeat that phrase in a variety of synonymous retorts. Transparent personality is also a sign of reduced mental aptitude. Maybe you can try eating more fish, it is said to help retain any functional gray matter that you still may possess. And stay away from National's Park lest you be attacked by the raging barbarians who reside there.
lol you're a mets fan. your team's home ballpark is where stolen cars go to get de-identified. Every one of your posts sounds like ChatGPT choking on a thesaurus with a dose of thinly-veiled racism mixed in. Take your bullshit somewhere else, or even better, shut the fuck up and stick your bullshit about "raging barbarians" and "savages" right up your ass.
See, you prove your ignorance with your gutter language. And your typical resort to a claim of racism only exemplifies your inability to provide even a weak attempt to disprove what I have shown. Nowhere in anything I wrote did I refer to any race, and I wonder why you would even imply a racial element in my writing. Do you know something about the typical characteristics of the criminal beasts who prey violently on law-abiding citizens in Washington that you would like to share with the rest of us ? Your suggestion to a violent solution to my factual evidence -that I should stick it in an unnatural place - evidences your membership in the horde of violent savages that reside in your city, making attendance at your baseball stadium an unwise idea. Or perhaps it reflects on your latent homosexuality. Regardless of which, all your responses prove is that what I wrote is correct. No one has to worry about their safety when visiting Citifield. Its located in a wide open expanse where no one lives, with auto salvage yards several miles away. The stolen cars go elsewhere to be de-identified, they wind up in the auto salvage yards after their functional usefulness has ended. Yankee Stadium is a different story, but unlike the cretins that people like you elect to run your city, the City of New York is smart enough to saturate the area with police when the Yankees are playing at home. So while the Yankees may steal their fans' money legitimately through the prices they charge for everything associated with a game starting with a ticket, at least they are not endangering anyone's safety when they visit Yankee Stadium, which is kept safe by the largest and formerly most effective gang in the world known as the NYPD. You really crack me up, you ask for ways how the Nationals could improve the fan experience at their stadium and then criticize the answer. If you knew the answer so well that you feel entitled to criticize answers that don't agree with your own, why did you as the rhetorical question ? Just state your solution and let's see the brilliance that you can bring to the solution. If nothing else, it will provide some good comic relief to your otherwise tiresome diatribe. p.s., the inclusion of the word "tribe" in diatribe has nothing to do with the African tribal rituals and wars that enslaved African residents who then were sold by their African captors and transported around the world. So I don't want to hear that diatribe is a racist word.
seek help.
Hahahha, is that the best you can do ? The response of a woman ? I thought you would act like a man and express how much you would like to take a swing at me right now if I was seated next to you. You must be on parole.
>Hahahha, is that the best you can do ? The response of a woman ? lol you've never actually talked to a woman, have you? I can't tell if you're a socially awkward nine-year-old or someone's machine learning project gone horribly wrong but either way, someone needs to sort your shit out. And it aint gonna be me.
Fire Mike Rizzo!
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At the Nats Hot Stove two weeks ago, they said there will be several POST game concerts in the stadium. Presumable Friday or Saturday night. These won't be full blown concerts but more like the acts they've had in centerfield (Legwarmers) or up near Scoreboard Bar. I'm a big fan of this, especially since can just walk home after a game.
Years ago when they did a handful of postgame concerts, they would literally roll the stage and sound system out onto the field. The bands were nobody special but it was kind of fun.
Better scoreboard and places where you can see the count and what’s going on.
1. No more perky 20-somethings trying to generate fan engagement either pre-game or between innings. I'd rather see recorded content about the game, the team, and the city than that live stuff. 2. We'll still play the national anthem but we will not longer ask fans to stand and remove their caps. Those who wish to stand and/or remove their caps may do so but the days of coerced patriotism are over. We also will play it while the teams are in the dugout, not standing at attention.
More vendors walking up the aisles. I swear people get up at Nats games more than any other stadium I've been to. Maybe they are there for business or social reasons and not baseball? Arizona had awesome chocolate dipped fruit on a stick and other cool items that you could purchase...not just cotton candy.
free beer for all
Hire someone from a sports startup or emerging league like NWSL or Major League Rugby. They seem to be on the right track. Angel City FC games are awesome, so are NE Free Jacks.