While the circumstances were not how they hoped, the Washington Nationals received their World Series championship rings on Thursday in a private ceremony at Nationals Park. Players took to their social media accounts to show off their rings, but Adam Eaton gave another peek at something in an Instagram post: their Opening Night Champions jersey.
By Cara Bahniuk 4 months ago
The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros 6-2 in Game Seven of the World Series to become world champions for the first time. In the locker room, they tried to drink out of the Commissioners’ Trophy like it was the Stanley Cup – at some point bending three of its flags. On November 2, the team paraded down Constitution Avenue. The next evening the players filed into a party bus and drove into the underbelly of Capital One Arena to celebrate at a Capitals game.
“That was the best night for me,” Adam Eaton said in an interview on the RMNB Podcast. “I loved the parade but this was better than the parade. The reason it was better than the parade was because — no offense to the families — it was the last time that we could have everybody together. Just the boys. It was the roster. There was no wives, no kids, no nothing. It was just the boys. Let’s go.”
By Ian Oland 6 months ago
During the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been considering how I can be more of the new-media journalist I want to be and use the vast connections I’ve created over the last decade. So, with Peter’s help, I’ve created the RMNB Interview Series. Imagine a long, in-depth interview that is supplemental to the RMNB Podcast (which Peter and I will still do). It will cover topics people really care about or may not know they cared about.
My first guest is a baseball player: Nationals’ World Series champion Adam Eaton. Eaton lives in Michigan and is a huge hockey and Washington Capitals fan.
During our chat, Adam takes us behind-the-scenes of the Capitals’ Stanley Cup celebration at Nationals Park in 2018, the Nats’ World Series run, the team’s postgame celebrations (and how they compared to the Caps’), catching Ovi’s first pitch in the playoffs, and the Nats’ World Series celebration at Capital One Arena. Eaton also goes in-depth on the how and the why of the shirtless Zamboni incident and reveals never-before-known details about that night. The interview, which was only supposed to last 30-45 minutes goes over 90.
By Ian Oland 6 months ago
The Washington Nationals were supposed to celebrate their World Series championship last week at Nats Park. On Thursday (April 2), the Nats were going to reveal their championship banner during their home opener. The team then planned to present players with their championship rings two days later. The coronavirus pandemic robbed us of both of those games, but not the bobbleheads that were made to commemorate those events.
World Series champion Adam Eaton released a photo of FOCO’s latest series of Nationals’ championship bobbleheads on his Instagram account. This design celebrates the Nationals banner ceremony and championship rings and gives hints at what both will look like. Eaton is immortalized in resin as well as star players Max Scherzer (yes, both eyes are different colors), Stephen Strasburg, Juan Soto, Ryan Zimmerman, and Howie Kendrick.
Adam Eaton and Howie Kendrick‘s clutch-and-drive home run celebration became iconic during the Washington Nationals’ World Series run.
“We’re both really big car guys and him and I have a really special relationship with cars and just, we love cars so we’re like, ‘you know what, let’s drive, I wanna drive,’ and then all of a sudden, Howie starts hitting homers and I’m like, ‘this is pretty cool, we’re drivin,” Eaton said of the celebration during the World Series. “I round the bases like, ‘man, I get to drive!'”
Now, there’s a World Series championship bobblehead celebrating the dugout celly and I, for one, am in love.
The Washington Nationals got to experience a rare thing during Sunday’s game at Capital One Arena: a hat trick.
After Jakub Vrana scored his first career hatty in the second period against the Flames, the Nationals, who were already drinking after every goal, had an epic celebration in the stands.
Adam Eaton, who was was at ice level to be honored by the crowd, threw at least five Capitals hats that had already been collected back onto the ice.
By Ian Oland 12 months ago
The Washington Nationals went to the Washington Capitals game last night. The World Series champions, in the presence of such great partiers, let go of their inhibitions and the game became a wild house party. There was drinking, there was celebrating, and there was lots of half nudity.
So obviously, the best way to end the night was to let these players out on the ice, which is slippery, and let them play a dangerous sport that is new and foreign to them.
The Nationals played hockey, you guys.
By Ian Oland 12 months ago
“They look pretty sober,” Evgeny Kuznetsov incorrectly observed of the Washington Nationals during the second intermission. “When we was in their situation, I don’t remember anything.”
Literally minutes later, a group of Washington Nationals players including Max Scherzer, Trea Turner, and Adam Eaton, got onto a Zamboni.
They got shirtless with their World Series championship trophy.
By Ian Oland 12 months ago
It was bound to happen. Washington Nationals outfielder Adam Eaton performed the Ritual of Champions before Sunday’s game against the Calgary Flames.
In front of the Caps, Eaton spoke the Sacred Words, “Let’s go, boys.” He then flipped his jersey over his face and poured a Bud Light through the jersey and into his mouth.
The room erupted in Solemn Applause.
By Peter Hassett 12 months ago
The Washington Nationals will continue to the Washington Capitals’ championship tradition of swimming in fountains, according to right fielder Adam Eaton.
Wednesday, after the Nationals won the World Series, TJ Oshie posted a map with various locations of fountains in Washington DC.
