#nationals-park — Public Fediverse posts

Washington Nationals vs Arizona Diamondbacks Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/718482/ #Baseball #BlakeButera #CorbinCarroll #CurtisMead #dc #Diamondbacks #DrewMillas #DylanCrews #FosterGriffin #GeraldoPerdomo #IldemaroVargas #JacobYoung #JorbitVivas #KeibertRuiz #KetelMarte #MaxMuncy #MerrillKelly #MiamiMarlins #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #NolanArenado #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

DJ Herz is closing in on a return to the Washington Nationals https://www.rawchili.com/5014726/ #Arsenal #BradLord #bummer #DjHerz #JarlinSusana #MaxScherzer #MitchellParker #MLB #Nationals #NationalsPark #nats #NewYorkMets #WashingtonNationals

Washington Nationals vs Miami Marlins Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/716381/ #AndrewAlvarez #Baseball #BradLord #bummer #ChristopherMorel #ConnorNorby #DaylenLile #dc #DylanCrews #EsteuryRuiz #JacobYoung #JavierSanoja #KyleStowers #LuisGarciaJr #Marlins #MaxMeyer #Miami #MiamiMarlins #MiamiMarlins #MLB #NationalsPark #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals

Washington Nationals vs Miami Marlins Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/715735/ #Baseball #ConnorNorby #DaylenLile #dc #DrewMillas #DylanCrews #HeribertoHernandez #JorbitVivas #LakeBachar #LiamHicks #MiamiMarlins #MilesMikolas #MLB #NasimNuñez #nationals #NationalsPark #nats #RichardLovelady #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

The battery of Keibert Ruiz and Zack Littell shines as the Nationals finish May two games over .500 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/713993/ #Baseball #CJAbrams #ClaytonBeeter #JamesWood #JorbitVivas #KeibertRuiz #MiguelAndujar #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #OrlandoRibalta #SanDiegoPadres #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #XanderBogaerts #ZackLittell

Washington Nationals vs San Diego Padres Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/713902/ #Baseball #CurtisMead #DaylenLile #DrewMillas #DylanCrews #FernandoTatisJr #FreddyFermin #GavinSheets #GettyImages #GriffinCanning #JacobYoung #JorbitVivas #KeibertRuiz #MLB #NationalsPark #NickCastellanos #Padres #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #WashingtonNationals #ZackLittell

Why not the Nats? Why 2026 feels different for the Washington Nationals https://www.rawchili.com/5011733/ #CadeCavalli #CJAbrams #CurtisMead #DylanCrews #FosterGriffin #JamesWood #JoeyWiemer #KeibertRuiz #MiamiMarlins #MLB #Nationals #NationalsPark #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #TheNats #WashingtonNationals

Free meals for kids returns to Nationals Park https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/713626/ #Baseball #fans #FreeMeals #kids #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #summer #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

Washington Nationals vs San Diego Padres Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/713027/ #Baseball #BlakeButera #CJAbrams #CurtisMead #DrewMillas #DylanCrews #FosterGriffin #FreddyFermin #JacksonMerrill #JamesWood #JorbitVivas #MichaelKing #MLB #NationalsPark #Padres #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #TheNats #WashingtonNationals

Protest songs at Nationals Park

It’s been less than 14 years since I last saw Bruce Springsteen play a concert at Nationals Park, but it feels like decades have passed since those innocent days of 2012. The nation and the world have changed in unpleasant and unsettling ways, those years have left their wear on me… and somehow the Boss barely seems to have aged.

Springsteen’s music, however, resonated in new ways Wednesday night against the backdrop of the second Trump administration’s cruelty, corruption and crime–and Springsteen’s up-to-the-minute denunciations of it, including commentary on this week’s abuses of power at ICE’s Delaney Hall prison outside Newark.

So “No Surrender,” released in 1984 on an album I got on tape, sounded very much of 2026’s moment in this setting. As Springsteen said towards the end of the night: “No one is coming to save us. So we have to do it ourselves.”

Likewise, the angry words in “The Promised Land” about being lied to (about what exactly is left to the listener’s imagination) hit in a way they hadn’t before when Springsteen and the E Street Band lit into that 1978 release right after “Streets of Minneapolis”–the song he wrote in January after government agents shot and killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti on those frozen streets.

That reminder of the crimes committed by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security then made “American Skin (41 Shots)” more arresting than before. People in the Twin Cities probably have some words about how in Trump 2.0’s thuggish version of the United States, you can get killed just for living in your American skin.

A cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown” on which Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello took turns on vocals itself picked up a little new relevance when heard in a neighborhood that has picked up a reputation, maybe undeserved, as a Republican hangout. As Mick Jones and Joe Strummer wrote in the late 1970s: “No man born with a living soul / can be working for the clampdown.”

Hearing “Youngstown” later in the set, I had to think the protagonist would have voted for Trump three times in a row. Would that embittered man be rethinking those choices now that Trump’s promises to renew industrial America have proved as empty as his pledges to most people besides January 6 insurrectionists? Or would he still be looking for somebody to blame?

When many other boldface names in American society keep pretending that this administration is just another presidency, Springsteen is calling out Trump’s regime with the vocabulary it deserves. That is called honesty, and it’s only one of the reasons why his work keeps speaking to me more than four decades after I started listening to it.

Protest songs at Nationals Park

It’s been less than 14 years since I last saw Bruce Springsteen play a concert at Nationals Park, but it feels like decades have passed since those innocent days of 2012. The nation and the world have changed in unpleasant and unsettling ways, those years have left their wear on me… and somehow the Boss barely seems to have aged.

Springsteen’s music, however, resonated in new ways Wednesday night against the backdrop of the second Trump administration’s cruelty, corruption and crime–and Springsteen’s up-to-the-minute denunciations of it, including commentary on this week’s abuses of power at ICE’s Delaney Hall prison outside Newark.

So “No Surrender,” released in 1984 on an album I got on tape, sounded very much of 2026’s moment in this setting. As Springsteen said towards the end of the night: “No one is coming to save us. So we have to do it ourselves.”

Likewise, the angry words in “The Promised Land” about being lied to (about what exactly is left to the listener’s imagination) hit in a way they hadn’t before when Springsteen and the E Street Band lit into that 1978 release right after “Streets of Minneapolis”–the song he wrote in January after government agents shot and killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti on those frozen streets.

That reminder of the crimes committed by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security then made “American Skin (41 Shots)” more arresting than before. People in the Twin Cities probably have some words about how in Trump 2.0’s thuggish version of the United States, you can get killed just for living in your American skin.

A cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown” on which Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello took turns on vocals itself picked up a little new relevance when heard in a neighborhood that has picked up a reputation, maybe undeserved, as a Republican hangout. As Mick Jones and Joe Strummer wrote in the late 1970s: “No man born with a living soul / can be working for the clampdown.”

Hearing “Youngstown” later in the set, I had to think the protagonist would have voted for Trump three times in a row. Would that embittered man be rethinking those choices now that Trump’s promises to renew industrial America have proved as empty as his pledges to most people besides January 6 insurrectionists? Or would he still be looking for somebody to blame?

When many other boldface names in American society keep pretending that this administration is just another presidency, Springsteen is calling out Trump’s regime with the vocabulary it deserves. That is called honesty, and it’s only one of the reasons why his work keeps speaking to me more than four decades after I started listening to it.

Nationals executive fired after controversial statements surfaced https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/712319/ #Baseball #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #Sports #washington #WashingtonDc #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

Baseball remains America’s pastime as nation celebrates 250th birthday https://www.rawchili.com/5007821/ #A250 #America250 #America'sNationalPastime #ArmandoMirandaIII #AtticusRichardson #Baseball #BaseballFans #DC #DennisKemp #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #NationalPastime #NationalsPark #Washington #WashingtonNationals

Baseball remains America’s pastime as nation celebrates 250th birthday https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/708397/ #A250 #America250 #America'sNationalPastime #ArmandoMirandaIII #AtticusRichardson #Baseball #BaseballFans #dc #DennisKemp #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #NationalPastime #NationalsPark #washington #WashingtonNationals

Mets at Marlins, 5/24/26: Scott vs Phillips https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/707672/ #Baseball #BoBichette #BrettBaty #CarsonBenge #ChristianScott #ChristopherMorel #ConnorNorby #GettyImages #HaydenSenger #JakobMarsee #JavierSanoja #KyleStowers #LiamHicks #MarcusSemien #MarkVientos #MJMelendez #MLB #NationalsPark #NewYorkMets #OttoLopez #OwenCaissie #TylerPhillips #TyroneTaylor #WashingtonNationals #XavierEdwards

Nationals Issue Lifetime Ban Following Display of Extremist Banner

Washington Nationals banned a fan permanently after they displayed a white nationalist banner on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at Nationals Park.

#NationalsPark, #WhiteNationalism, #HateSpeech, #SportsBan, #DCNews

https://newsletter.tf/nationals-ban-fan-white-nationalist-banner-may-17/

A fan has been banned for life from Nationals Park after displaying a banner with white nationalist slogans. This is a permanent ban for violating park rules.

#NationalsPark, #WhiteNationalism, #HateSpeech, #SportsBan, #DCNews
https://newsletter.tf/nationals-ban-fan-white-nationalist-banner-may-17/

Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/704324/ #AndresChaparro #Baseball #CurtisMead #dc #DylanCrews #HaydenSenger #JacobYoung #JamesWood #JorbitVivas #JuanSoto #KeibertRuiz #MJMelendez #MLB #NasimNuñez #nationals #NationalsPark #NewYorkMets #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #ZackLittell

Orioles’ win over Nats briefly interrupted by racists’ flail for attention https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/?p=702494 #AttentionSeeking #BaltimoreOrioles #banning #Baseball #FlagStunt #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #racism #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #WhiteNationalism #WhiteReplacementTheory #WhiteSupremacy

White Genocide Conspiracy Freaks Flee Nationals Game After Banner Stunt

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/white-genocide-conspiracy-freaks-flee-nationals-game-after-banner-stunt

Washington Nationals vs Baltimore Orioles Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/701608/ #AdleyRutschman #BaltimoreOrioles #Baseball #BradyHouse #BrandonYoung #ColtonCowser #GettyImages #JamesWood #KeibertRuiz #MilesMikolas #MLB #NasimNuñez #nationals #NationalsPark #RichardLovelady #SamuelBasallo #TaylorWard #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

Washington Nationals vs Baltimore Orioles Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/699979/ #AdleyRutschman #AndrewAlvarez #Baltimore #BaltimoreOrioles #BaltimoreOrioles #Baseball #CincinnatiReds #CurtisMead #DrewMillas #GunnarHenderson #JacobYoung #JorbitVivas #LuisGarciaJr #MLB #NasimNuñez #NationalsPark #Orioles #PeteAlonso #PjPoulin #SamuelBasallo #ShaneBaz #TheNats #WashingtonNationals #ZackLittell

The young and hungry Washington Nationals are playing with emotion https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/698780/ #Baseball #Cincinnati #CJAbrams #DaylenLile #dc #EllyDeLaCruz #JJBleday #KyleSchwarber #Mets #MilwaukeeBrewers #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #RichardLovelady #SalStewart #SpencerSteer #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #YoungTeam

Washington Nationals vs Miami Marlins Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/694004/ #Baseball #CurtisMead #FosterGriffin #GettyImages #JoeyWiemer #KeibertRuiz #Marlins #MiamiMarlins #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #nats #OttoLopez #RoadWarriors #TheMarlins #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #XavierEdwards

FOX 5, Nationals team up for Weather Day at Nats Park! https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/692718/ #Baseball #CaitlinRoth #ChadRicardo #fox #FOX5Weather #JenniferDelgado #Minnesota #MinnesotaTwins #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #TuckerBarnes #Twins #WashingtonNationals #WeatherPresentations

Nationals need more from poor-hitting catching duo, Keibert Ruiz, Drew Millas https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/691632/ #AtlantaBraves #Baseball #ChallengeSystem #CurtisMead #DrewMillas #JamesWood #JoseTena #KeibertRuiz #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #RileyAdams #TheNationals #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

Washington Nationals vs Minnesota Twins Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/691408/ #Baseball #BradyHouse #ByronBuxton #CadeCavalli #CurtisMead #DaylenLile #dc #Dodgers #JorbitVivas #JoshBell #KeibertRuiz #LuisGarciaJr #MilwaukeeBrewers #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #NatsPark #RichardLovelady #RyanJeffers #TajBradley #TheNats #TheTwins #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

Washington Nationals Face Minnesota Twins to Improve Home Record https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/691335/ #Baseball #CadeCavalli #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #Mlb2026 #nationals #NationalsPark #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

Cionel Perez Declares Free Agency, Departs Washington Nationals https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/690327/ #Baltimore #Baseball #CionelPérez #FreeAgency #MilwaukeeBrewers #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #OrlandoRibalta #TheNationals #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #ZakKent

Washington Nationals fall to 3-12 at home in a flat showing against the Brewers https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/688826/ #Baseball #BradyHouse #BrandonLockridge #Brewers #bummer #dc #FosterGriffin #Mets #Milwaukee #MilwaukeeBrewers #MilwaukeeBrewers #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #TheNats #washington #WashingtonNationals #ZackLittell

Washington Nationals vs Milwaukee Brewers Game Thread https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/688759/ #Baseball #BrandonLockridge #CurtisMead #DaylenLile #FosterGriffin #GarySanchez #JacobMisiorowski #JacobYoung #JakeIrvin #JamesWood #JoeyOrtiz #JoeyWiemer #KeibertRuiz #KyleHarrison #MilwaukeeBrewers #MLB #nationals #NationalsPark #TylerBlack #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals #WilliamContreras

Weekly output: wireless-service satisfaction, ransomware survey, Dashlane report, Verizon fee increases, drone policy

I had one work event on my calendar this week that I don’t think rates as an appearance worth listing here, since I got roped into it at the last minute. I’d put the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s tech-law trivia contest on my schedule Wednesday thinking it would be fun to watch, but then one of the contestants asked if I’d like to join their team–and we finished in third place. This was one of the first public trivia contests I’d joined since 1987, when I was a member of the high school team that won a New Jersey state championship, and it’s nice to see that I still have it or at least some of it.

This coming week has me traveling for work for the first time since the middle of June and to an event that first landed on my travel calendar in 2018: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the Black Hat information-security conference. The trip doesn’t include the DEF CON infosec conference that follows Black Hat, and on Patreon I explained why I opted out of that and feel a little guilty about it.

7/31/2025: People Like Wireless Service Best When It Doesn’t Involve the Big 3 Carriers, PCMag

The gap betweeen J.D. Power’s customer-satisfaction stats for the big three wireless carriers and that firm’s metrics for companies reselling the networks of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon caught my eye.

8/1/2025: Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once, PCMag

This survey published by the security firm Semperis got an unfortunate news peg when the Trump administration rescinded the West Point department-chair appointment of one of the report’s expert contributors, former Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration head Jen Easterly.

8/1/2025: This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product, PCMag

Dashlane’s PR folks offered me this story ahead of time. Since I have always found the fallible-human element of information security to be fascinating, I accepted the offer, and then my editors concurred.

8/1/2025: Months After Freezing Wireless Rates But Not Fees, Verizon Slips in a Fee Increase, PCMag

One of my colleagues brought this to my attention, and I was happy to set aside some time Friday morning to cover it.

8/2/2025: The Drone Industry Can’t Wait for This One Federal Regulation to Take Off, PCMag

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nationals Park to cover a drone-policy conference hosted there by the trade group AUVSI, but I didn’t get around to writing it until Thursday night.

#AUVSI #BlackHat #ConsumerCellular #Dashlane #droneDelivery #drones #finePrint #JDPower #junkFees #NationalsPark #NatsPark #passwordManager #ransomware #Semperis #verizon #Vz #wirelessServices

This rite of a Washington spring is now 20 years old

Thursday was not like any other day this week–but it did fit into a pattern that set in starting in 2005. Meaning, I once again had no other choice but to take off work to go to the Washington Nationals’ home opener.

My first 15 years of life in and around the District did not include that rite of spring, because major-league baseball (as opposed to intern softball on the Mall) was an other-cities proposition. But I cleared my afternoon for the Nats’ home opener at RFK that April, and the experience was epically worth the work avoidance.

My wife and I have stayed in the same 20-game partial-season-ticket group ever since, so almost every March or April has treated us to this seasonal event.

Parts of it have changed immensely–especially with the team’s move from RFK and the peeling paint inside that concrete donut to Nats Park in 2008.

Where RFK had no neighborhood bars and restaurants for pregame and postgame enjoyment, the blocks north of Nats Park have filled in with residential, office and hotel buildings. To the south, D.C. has replaced the ugly metal hulk of the former Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge with the soaring arches of its successor over the Anacostia. And to the west, Audi Field hosts the other beautiful game as played by D.C. United and the Washington Spirit.

The neighborhood has overall improved so much since I was reviewing the occasional concert at the Capital Ballroom almost 30 years ago, and I love that.

Inside and just outside Nats Park, some traditions have held while others have flown in the breeze like the World Series championship flag that has graced our ballpark since 2019.

On one hand, hearing the aptly-named D.C. Washington sing the national anthem every year is a treat that fans of no other MLB franchise get. And no other team gets flyovers of F-16s from Joint Base Andrews.

On the other hand, I thought in 2005 that presidents throwing out a ceremonial first pitch would be a regular feature for Nats home openers. But after George W. Bush’s high strike in 2005 and Barack Obama’s comparable throw in 2010, other people have done the honors.

(Thursday featured Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell, who has more than earned that recognition on his way to Cooperstown.)

I get that Joe Biden and Donald Trump don’t have the arms to keep the ball out of the dirt–and that Trump’s fragile ego couldn’t stand being booed by Nats fans who rightly disapprove of his authoritarian garbage–but we do need to bring that tradition back.

And, yes, the Nats have been wildly uneven in their home openers. Thursday was no exception, even between innings: MacKenzie Gore struck out 13 and allowed only one hit and zero walks in six innings, but then the Nats squandered that standout start to lose 7-3 to the Phillies.

That’s not a great beginning of the season. But I will, of course, be in the stands on Sunday.

#ballpark #baseball #firstPitch #flyover #homeOpener #MLB #Nationals #NationalsPark #Nats #NatsPark #openingDay #RFK #stadium #WashingtonNationals