...so many memories of those dire early years (the '05 Overachievers the honourable exception) and the players and other personnel who made them possible...
How about the way we started off on the wrong foot on our first-ever home opener in 2005...enormous queues at the security points still in the third inning, and then running out of hot dog buns in the fourth...establishing the superb Washington Nationals tradition of Opening Day customer-service lapses that continues to the present season?