I was reading Tom Boswell's Washington Post chat this afternoon and came across this gem:
Help Please! From Ashburn: Tom, I will be celebrating a good friend's 50th birthday tomorrow at Nationals Park. So I'll be recording the Caps game at home. Is there any way to let the Nationals staff know to PLEASE not give Caps updates on the board or over the loudspeaker during the game?? It will be much less fun if I know the final score (or even the winner or loser) before I watch the game.
Tom Boswell: I'll be interested to see how they handle this.
Even if I'm taping a game (and heaven knows I tape enough of them), I still want to know the score as it happens. I figure most people do. Besides, the roar (or groan) when the score goes up is a fun part of the game.
But maybe the Nats will respect your point of view. We'l see.
First, the Caps don't even play Friday, and there was never any discussion of it. I heard Caps radio announcers get into it after the game Tuesday, when one suggested that the NHL had said that the Caps next series would start next Tuesday, and another one said that he was full of it. Nobody ever said anything about Friday, though. (I hope Mr. Ashburn set his Betamax for the wrong day.)
Second, what the hell? I know that DC is full of pompous, thoughtless a-holes, but I never thought that a guy from Ashburn would suggest that a columnist should ask the executives of a MLB team to withhold information from a crowd of, hopefully, 30,000 people just so he can enjoy his 50-year old friends' birthday party.
To quote Jeff Spicoli from the classic film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, "What a dick!"
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