Tony and Doug Inside MLB

And I use the word "ballpark" very loosely. This place needs to be replaced, and it will be, as ground was recently broken for a new park next to the nearby Anacostia River. They say it will open by 2008, but a Nationals source told me today that in reality, their best hope is probably that year's All-Star break.
This place, besides being really old, is also really ugly, really ugly and really outdated. And the press box is so bad that you can't really see the game from the second row (where the visiting writers sit), so I find myself watching most of it on the numerous television monitors that hang from the ceiling.
There also is a veritable cornucopia of smells, depending on what part of the park you're in.
Sportswriters are notorious complainers, and I realize that's probably what I sound like with this particular blog. But in all honesty, the place just reeks. Until I came here, the worst major-league park I had ever been in was old County Stadium in Milwaukee, which no longer exists. But this one is far, far worse.