Three statues going up outside of Nats Park next season

[KnorrForYourMoney]

I know, I'm just saying they should honor some of the Expos' history in addition to Washington history.

Leave that to Montreal, for anyone there who still actually gives a crap.

[BBQ]

Nationals legends: Jose Guillen, Ryan Zimmerman, Chad Cordero

[PANatsFan]

Nationals legends: Jose Guillen, Ryan Zimmerman, Chad Cordero

Make those statues out of Play-Doh.

[BBQ]

Make those statues out of Play-Doh.

I have a lot should I bring it next I go to the park? Play-doh is actually real cool.

[HalfSmokes]

Nationals legends: Jose Guillen, Ryan Zimmerman, Chad Cordero

They could be sponsored by Band-Aid

[kimnat]

Nationals legends: Jose Guillen, Ryan Zimmerman, Chad Cordero

Legends?  Not sure what your definition of legend is, but whatever it is, I don't think mine's the same.

[PANatsFan]

I have a lot should I bring it next I go to the park? Play-doh is actually real cool.

Cordero was Rolaids Relief Man of the Year, because he gave everyone gas pains.

[Nat of the Living Dead]

Well the statue thing is a mainstay of modern stadiums.  I know they have some outside of PNC Park and Busch Stadium III.

Detroit has a bunch sitting along an outfield wall.

[Nat of the Living Dead]

Leave that to Montreal, for anyone there who still actually gives a crap.

Put bluntly, but yes. It isn't our responsibility to honor Expo players. Some people here and around DC kept the memories of the Senators and DC baseball alive for 33 years and without a team. If people really care and hold the Expos dear, they will hold down the fort in Montreal.

[PANatsFan]

Put bluntly, but yes. It isn't our responsibility to honor Expo players. Some people here and around DC kept the memories of the Senators and DC baseball alive for 33 years and without a team. If people really care and hold the Expos dear, they will hold down the fort in Montreal.

This is not meant as an insult in any way to Expos fans: What if we put a AAA team there. It's a start,and it worked for Denver.

[hammondsnats]

****, they couldn't of picked three better men, IMO.

the post of the century. 

[OldChelsea]

The three statues are an excellent idea - Nationals Park right now has very little celebrating Washington's baseball past...all they've got is all those years marked at the approach to the Home Plate Entrance...along with an old 1924 scoreboard and a themed bar honouring the Homestead Grays - and both of those are in the club/suite sections!

The Nats need to recognise the baseball heritage here - in all-access areas of the stadium, not in club/suite sections full of toffs who are just there to socialise and probably don't give a toss about baseball anyway - and these statues (assuming they go outside one of the entrances or in some other all-access area) are a very good start, and I don't think anyone could have come up with three better players than the ones selected.

[tomterp]

I know, I'm just saying they should honor some of the Expos' history in addition to Washington history.

That's for Montreal to do.  That's not our history, it's theirs.  Go to Texas and you won't see a statue of Hondo.  Go to Minnesota, and you'll see no reference to Walter Johnson, and appropriately so.  Johnson had nothing to do with Minnesota, nada. 

It's high time we reclaim and celebrate our own baseball history.

[tomterp]

The three statues are an excellent idea - Nationals Park right now has very little celebrating Washington's baseball past...all they've got is all those years marked at the approach to the Home Plate Entrance...

99% of Nats fans have never seen the markers at the home plate entrance, as it is a seldom used egress.

[Minty Fresh]

QFT

 

[OldChelsea]

99% of Nats fans have never seen the markers at the home plate entrance, as it is a seldom used egress.

That's probably true - I always use the Left Field entrance myself (best access to 300's).

[tomterp]

That's probably true - I always use the Left Field entrance myself (best access to 300's).

I use home plate entrance frequently, it's practically deserted.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I don't think I have ever used any entrance other than the outfield.  Maybe once or twice (never noticed the plaque).

99% of Nats fans have never seen the markers at the home plate entrance, as it is a seldom used egress.

[HalfSmokes]

99% of Nats fans have never seen the markers at the home plate entrance, as it is a seldom used egress.

If they wanted it to be prominent it would be between the Metro access and the outfield entrance

[OldChelsea]

If they wanted it to be prominent it would be between the Metro access and the outfield entrance

That would make all the sense in the world since I think most Nats matchgoers at least pass by that way (and the centre-field gate area is also visible from most of the seating area as well).

I note that the article linked in the lead post says they'll go 'outside Nationals Park' - but given where they put the park's other historical memorabilia (the 1924 scoreboard and whatever Grays memorabilia they may have in the Grays Bar in the Stars and Stripes Club) they'll probably put the statues in the PNC Diamond Club or put one of them in each of the three sets of suites.

[Eddie the Expos fan]

We need to completely disassociate ourselves from the Expos. The Expos are a thing of the past.

The Expos are the Washington Nationals.  Get use to it.  I believe the players chosen for the statues were good picks.  As a Expos fan I think the city of Montreal should honor their star players not DC.

[spidernat]

The Expos are the Washington Nationals.  Get use to it.

The team is NOW the Washington Nationals. They are not "The Team Formerly Known As The Montreal Expos". The Montreal Expos are a thing of the past. Kids will have to read about the Expos in history books. Get used to it. I don't understand why people are offended by the fact that some of us don't want any association with the expos. This is our team now. I don't believe we owe Montreal anything.

As a Expos fan I think the city of Montreal should honor their star players not DC.

Exactly.

[HalfSmokes]

I'm one of those people hoped the team would have gotten rights to the Senators name, but even so, thanks to the MLB denuding this team of any stars or star prospects, we never had any great players to tie us to Montreal. Instead, what the Lerners got was, for all intents, an expansion team. If they want to tie the team to the DC past as opposed to Montreal, good for them.

[wpa2629]

I know, I'm just saying they should honor some of the Expos' history in addition to Washington history.

Expo History should be honored in Montreal -- Washington/Senator/Nationals History should be honored in Washington

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

It's Expos DNA in the Nats, but the statues are tied to geography, not baseball biology