Out at Home
That last post barked. Mostly days out of date, except for a few links I threw in at the end when I finished it off. This post will be focused unified, less dependent on the rush of current events. About current events all I can say is that at the end of the day you ought to try to protect real money. Money that represents someone's earnings in exchange for labor, or a home they are living in. Fake money, bubble investment money, you let evaporate
Is credit crisis truly so dire, lawmakers ask | csmonitor.com. Towards this end use whatever means are provident, fiscal policy - the government's ability to affect aggregate labor and material demand, financial policy - policies affecting interest rates and the money supply. But you don't play chicken with credit doubt. Credit, inflation, and unemployment interact in powerful ways that extend beyond the ability of governments to control. If the tap gets turned off we might not be able to turn it back on for years
Economic Scene: Lesson From a Crisis: When Trust Vanishes, Worry.
Now on to my real concern: Baseball in DC. Specifically Washington DC and the Nationals. Is DC the Nats' true home? You might think so given that they are called the Washington Nationals, perhaps I should refer to them as the former Montreal Expos instead. I was always dubious but now I'm giving way to open skepticism.
Admittedly I'm biased. The O's are my preferred team. I came here during a period when they were the accepted home team. This was a long time ago. I was still in the Navy and had just transferred out of CRAW One (RVAH-7 had decommissioned) in NAS Key West to the Pentagon. I first went up to Memorial stadium to see a game in 1980. The Orioles were still sporting the cartoon version of their mascot. I miss that bird. Baltimore was a familiar American League East team
Baltimore Orioles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Easy for someone who grew up as a Red Sox fan in Massachusetts, to fall in with. The Orioles had Ripkins beyond count, Dempseys, Murrarys. They had Mussina - a 20 game winner this year; although, not with Baltimore. Hot L Baltimore indeed! Washington's papers and tv covered the O's in deep and sympathetic detail. Not anymore. They don't broadcast any O's games, heck they barely broadcast any Nat's games. Of course we're talking regular tv here which I realize no one is supposed to watch anymore. All this doesn't bother my Dad as much who grew up in St. Louis before moving to Boston, and doesn't mind people yabbering on about the National League. Plus he has cable. Although I recall it was the Sox getting into the 1967 world series that inspired him to finally buy a new tv after the old one had broken a year or two earlier.
At any rate I've had enough. People's exhibit No. 1: the Nationals home won-lost record: 34-46
Major League Baseball Standings - washingtonpost.com. A .74 completion rate. This is the worst in Major League Baseball. Compare with the Red Sox 2.24, 56 games won against 25 lost in Fenway Park. That's how a team plays at home. No team with a record as abysmal as the Nationals can really be in their true home. My advice: Keep moving. South. Richmond maybe, or Virginia Beach, even, perhaps especially, Raleigh-Durham. Roanoke I hear is nice, and a happening place. The south bank of the Potomac as a minimum. They could call themselves the Mount Vernon Vetivers. Think of it as quest. As far as the new stadium in DC is concerned, we could see if it can be used for cricket, or we could always try to get the Pope back, maybe talk him into some kind of residency. Next season I go back to being an Orioles fan.
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