http://districtondeck.com/2012/05/18/the-battle-of-the-beltway/ A Washington Nationals Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://districtondeck.com/2012/05/18/the-battle-of-the-beltway/comment-page-1/#comment-1368710 69Nats_Fan Fri, 18 May 2012 12:41:07 +0000 http://districtondeck.com/?p=3620#comment-1368710 Aaron - Dominic's post is classic Baltimore, which I described in my pending article on this site. "Tough, down-to-earth blue collar Baltimore against those stuffy, white-collar, transient Washingtonians." While that might have been true in the 60s when the Senators were here, it is a myth now. Most of the blue collar jobs departed from Baltimore years ago, recently the Bethlehem Steel Plant and the McCormick spice factory. Its 2 largest employers are white collar to the core. And the latest Census data show that DC is no more transient than other big cities like Philly. And, just one more "for the record", Natty Boh sponsored Washington Senators baseball for years, including the classic guy's face atop Griffith Stadium. To my article's point, baseball was absent for so long in DC that people have forgotten the history and resort to cliches instead. Aaron – Dominic’s post is classic Baltimore, which I described in my pending article on this site. “Tough, down-to-earth blue collar Baltimore against those stuffy, white-collar, transient Washingtonians.” While that might have been true in the 60s when the Senators were here, it is a myth now. Most of the blue collar jobs departed from Baltimore years ago, recently the Bethlehem Steel Plant and the McCormick spice factory. Its 2 largest employers are white collar to the core. And the latest Census data show that DC is no more transient than other big cities like Philly. And, just one more “for the record”, Natty Boh sponsored Washington Senators baseball for years, including the classic guy’s face atop Griffith Stadium. To my article’s point, baseball was absent for so long in DC that people have forgotten the history and resort to cliches instead.

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