Nationals Stadium

Major League stadium number 22.

There's a long history of baseball in Washington, DC. A long and painful history. The lasting memory from the earlier incarnation of baseball in DC, the Washington Senators, was "Washington -- first in war, first in peace, last in the American League." Clever guys, those sportswriters.

Two features of the stadium. First, I've seen "Kiss Cam" and "Wave Your Hands Cam" and such on the scoreboard. Washington has "Do You Have a Clue?" They put some unsuspecting fan on the scoreboard, and start a timer to see how long it takes for the person to realize they're on camera. This night, they finished by showing a guy sitting alone with a Mr. Met doll. At first it looked like they'd nailed him, but then it became clear that he was in on the joke, and started feeding the doll licorice and such, all without looking at the camera. Good job.

Second, every stadium has some kind of strange race, usually on the video screen -- dots, construction equipment, whatever. In DC, they have four guys in cartoon costumes of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt run half a lap around the stadium. Teddy Roosevelt has never won the race. I believe this is revenge for Teddy being on Mount Rushmore when he really has no business being there.

Now we're even.