From The Department of Redundancy Department

The Red Sox are coming to D.C. this week to play the Nationals. I am very excited for this and will be attending all three games. Unfortunately, the Nationals are not exactly accustomed to handling large crowds and they are expecting a large contingency of Red Sox fans to overtake Nationals Park.

So on Friday, I received the following e-mail from the Nationals. This is the first paragraph:

The Red Sox visit the Nation's Capital to take on the Nats on June 23 - 25. Nationals officials are expecting capacity crowds at Nationals Park on all three nights and encourage fans to arrive at the ballpark early when the team faces Boston to avoid rush hour delays and long lines.

Then, just in case that first paragraph was confusing, the Nats broke out their team president to reiterate that more than 38 people might be attending these games. Here is what Nats team president had to say.

"We are encouraging all fans to arrive early at Nationals Park when the team faces the Boston Red Sox next week in order to avoid delays and long lines." Nationals President Stan Kasten said. "We are expecting capacity crowds to be travelling to the ballpark during the heart of rush hour for all three games, and advise fans to plan for extra travel time."

See, much different than that first paragraph. Not to mention that I love that it falls on the shoulders of the team's president to tell people to arrive early. That isn't slightly below his pay grade?