Bringing Another Level of Meaning To The Expression "The Nats Stink"

Somehow, this seems pretty fitting:

(Washington, DC) -- The steel skeleton of the new baseball stadium for the Nationals is going up near the Anacostia River in Southeast, but one environmentalist is predicting a big stink every time it rains. James Connolly, executive director of the Anacostia Watershed Society, says the District's ancient sewer system overflows even in a moderate rainstorm, dumping raw sewage into the Anacostia. Connolly told the "Washington Post" it means that baseball fans will "stand up in the seventh-inning stretch and get a big whiff of sewage." The DC Water and Sewer Authority has drawn up plans to spend two-billion-dollars on giant sewer tunnels under the city, but the money is not available. As for the plans to further develop the Anacostia with a new soccer stadium across the river from the baseball stadium, as well as as shops, housing and parks -- environmentalist Thomas Arrasmith told the "Post" that "you really cannot build a world-class city on a wrecked river."

On the other hand, think of the home field advantage over the teams that aren't used to it!

UPDATE: BTW, let me be clear that I get to say this sort of thing because I'm a Nats fan. The rest of you can put a sock in it.