I’ve attended several Nationals games in this, their inaugural season, and have enjoyed the obvious enthusiasm this city has for this brand new team, as well as the apparent enjoyment the players are getting out of having an actual home crowd come to cheer for them. I’m also smug, as I look around at the 25,000 to 40,000 people in attendance and remember Peter Angelos’ assertion that there are no real baseball fans in DC.
That being the case, I’m a little confused about a practice that DC fans seemed to have imported from Baltimore. During the singing of the National Anthem, at the line “O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave…” the fans in attendance are still yelling “O” along with the vocalist.
People. This was already inappropriate and disrespectful at an O’s game, but it could at least be understood as an expression of enthusiasm for the home team. At a Nats game, not only is it inappropriate and disrespectful to the singing of the anthem, it’s also ridiculous and out of context.
So cut it out, because it makes you look dumb. And rude. And, um, stuff.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
Tiffany Baxendell Bridge is an Internet enthusiast and an incurable smartass. When not heckling the neighborhood political scene on Twitter, she can be found goofing off with her ukulele, Bollywood dancing, or obsessing about cult TV. She is That Woman With the Baby In the Bar.
Tiffany lives in Brookland with her husband Tom, son Charlie, and two high-maintenance cats. Read why Tiffany loves DC.
