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'Sakura' in the new Nats park?
2007-03-13 13:52
by Bob Timmermann

The plans for the new park for the Nationals in DC will feature cherry trees. The trees will not be in play but rather be placed beyond the left field bleachers.

This may be the most famous plant life in a park in that part of the country since the Orioles raised tomatoes in the bullpen at Memorial Stadium.

Also the contest to pick the best [] is still open.

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2007-03-13 14:12:21
1.   dianagramr
Didn't the Murph in San Diego have palm trees beyond the outfield walls?
2007-03-13 14:13:32
2.   El Lay Dave
This may be the most famous plant life in a park in that part of the country since the Orioles raised tomatoes in the bullpen at Memorial Stadium

Maybe just since Frank Robinson managed the Nats. (I'm not sure how big an area "that part of the country" is, but surely D.C. is close enough to Bal'mur.)

2007-03-13 14:13:41
3.   dianagramr
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read the whole post Diane ... read the whole post ...

yes ... SD is not part of Washington or its surrounding counties ...

2007-03-13 14:15:43
4.   trainwreck
If I have a daughter I would think of naming her Sakura. I hope I get with a Japanese woman.
2007-03-13 14:25:41
5.   El Lay Dave
"We couldn't find another ballpark that had trees in the ballpark," team president Stan Kasten said

Dodger Stadium has trees between the bleachers and parking.
http://home.comcast.net/~goclaude/html/travels_10.html

30 seconds of thought and 30 seconds of search engine image searching - it was tough for me to outperform Kasten and his "We" crew.

Now, if these cherry trees were between the wall and the bleachers....

2007-03-13 14:25:54
6.   Bob Timmermann
I've never known anyone Japanese with that name.

This is America. You can name your kid whatever you want.

2007-03-13 14:27:03
7.   El Lay Dave
4 Name her that irrespective of your future wife's ethnicity. Think of it, Sakura Trainwreck - that's already a punk-rock singer (or the year 2027 equivalent) in the making!
2007-03-13 14:35:27
8.   rbs10025
5 Ditto Shea Stadium. In the "picnic area" behind the left field bleachers.

BTW: If you use Google Earth to check out stadiums for this kind of detail, their imagery for Yankee Stadium has a game in progress. (I'm trying to remember if there's a small tree in monument park there.)

2007-03-13 15:07:14
9.   trainwreck
I was just assuming it might be harder to convince a non-Japanese woman to name her daughter Sakura. This is California though, where we name children after fruit.
2007-03-13 15:09:13
10.   Bob Timmermann
I'm betting that a Japanese woman would be harder to convince to name a child "Sakura". Japanese names tend to be fairly prosaic.
2007-03-13 15:15:57
11.   trainwreck
I know a girl named Sakura, of course she is animated.
2007-03-13 17:30:39
12.   Ken Arneson
Ah, prosaic names...sigh...

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