Are the Nationals cursed?

[El Supremo]

Could the location of the team's new stadium explain its mediocrity?
September 13, 2010|By Mark Greenbaum and David O'Leary

...Formerly the Montreal Expos, the Nationals were attracted to Washington largely on the promise of a gleaming new District-funded stadium that would allow the franchise to concentrate its resources on the field. So far, the team hasn't flourished as planned. The Nats have averaged 93 losses a year, finishing out of the divisional cellar just once. This year, they are on similar pace and, not surprisingly, have had one of the worst home attendance records in the league.

While the Nationals' woes can be traced to a legacy of administrative incompetence and player failures, the team's location at the Washington Navy Yard should also be considered as a source of their ineptitude. Nationals Park sits directly on an infamous stretch of the Anacostia River where authorities conducted the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth on the ironclad U.S.S. Montauk anchored at the Navy Yard. Next door at Fort McNair, Booth's co-conspirators were held and tried at the country's first federal penitentiary, and four of them were hanged there in July 1865. Booth himself was buried there until his remains were later moved.



http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-09-13/news/bs-ed-nationals-curse-20100913_1_national-pastime-stephen-strasburg-baseball-curse

[flvegan]

1. Nah, they just suck.

:hi: TZ

[TZ]

3. I read this idiotic article

If there were a curse, it would actually apply to Camden Yards. AFAIK, Peter Angelos is the biggest curse in baseball...

[CatholicEdHead]

2. I am just thankful to have the renamed Washington Senators leading the AL Central

as the Minnesota Twins. :p

[KamaAina]

4. The same was once said of the Superdome

which was built on the site of the old Girod Street Cemetery.

That's right, the Superdome, home of the...