An idea for Washington Nationals baseball stadium restroom urinals

A toilet with a soccer pitch in it is seen at a petrol station in Warsaw. Reuters.

This is a follow-on to a thread initiated by Mati Senerchia, which led to this previous entry, "Public restrooms and design for maintenance." It does give me some ideas for outfitting the mens restrooms at the forthcoming Washington Nationals baseball stadium.

Alas, work commitments mean that I will not be able to testify at the City Council hearing on Monday on the proposed creation of an "Office of Baseball." From Deborah Hanrahan, via themail:

The mayor’s supplemental appropriation request, which includes the $750,000 for the Office of Baseball, will be the subject of a public hearing next Monday, June 12, at 2:30 p.m. before the Council Committee of the Whole. Anyone wishing to testify should call Chairman Cropp’s office, 724-8032. Remember, Mrs. Cropp has said many times on the campaign trail and elsewhere that not one penny of taxpayers’ money is going into the stadium.

I mean, what's the point? Since a $611 million+ donation, displaced businesses, etc., isn't enough to get the team owners to support underground parking, will an "Office of Baseball" add substantively to the mix, or merely come up with more excuses about how and why everybody needs to continue to bend over backwards (and in other directions) to Major League Baseball and to the Washington Nationals.

This is an excerpt from a blog entry from last year, "Rigorous analysis and hard facts in the face of conventional wisdom":

Compare "A Good Deal for the Nats" co-authored by Mayor Williams and Councilmember Jack Evans versus these two editorials about baseball from the Washington Times, "Baseball, TV and the Anti-trust exemption" and "Sponsoring RFK."

I would expect about the same from a DC government "Office of Baseball."

Christian Guzman bobblehead, Washington Nationals.

Maybe the Office of Baseball could get the Washington Nationals to create bobblehead figures of the various people who have represented the DC government on this issue, such as Stephen Green, Mark Tuomey, etc.

Index Keywords: restrooms; stadiums-arenas; baseball