{"id":30628,"date":"2023-06-08T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=30628"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:05:01","slug":"the-district-of-champions-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2023\/06\/the-district-of-champions-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"The District of Champions curse?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2019, in the afterglow of the <a href=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/tag\/2019-world-series-champions\"><strong>Washington Nationals World Series championship<\/strong><\/a>, two area breweries included &#8220;District of Champions&#8221; on their labels. In the last year, both of those breweries have closed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>3 Stars, which included DoC on their Diamonds Are Forever cans, <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2022\/07\/pour-one-out-for-dcs-3-stars-brewing-and-green-hat-distilling.html\"><strong>folded in the summer of 2022<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2023\/01\/beltway-brewing-latest-loudoun-casualty-atlas-expanding-to-alexandria.html\"><strong>Beltway Brewing Co., shut down this winter<\/strong><\/a>. They renamed their red lager District of Champions; it was previously called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudounnow.com\/business\/beltway-celebrates-batting-1000\/article_34b2e950-0c5f-530e-bf25-a489fad07776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Batting 1.000<\/strong><\/a> (<em>Loudoun Now<\/em>). I really that liked that beer.<a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=30628&#038;action=edit#footenote1\"><strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/a> I&#8217;m saving a can for the next D.C. championship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nats haven&#8217;t closed shop, but<em> it kind of feels like they have<\/em> in trading away <strong>Max Scherzer<\/strong>, <strong>Trea Turner<\/strong> and <strong>Juan Soto<\/strong> over the last few seasons. They lost over 100 games last year! Another 100 loss season wouldn&#8217;t be shocking, though they have been better<sup><a href=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/#footnote2\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/a><\/sup> through the first third of the 2023 season. At least <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2021\/05\/its-time-for-the-nats-to-move-on-from-19-31.html\"><strong>they didn&#8217;t go 19-31 again<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Curse?!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absent external events, sure, we could a call it curse. Unfortunately, there was a pandemic and the response to it by big brewers hurt the little guys:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the pandemic \u201cthe larger craft breweries, the regional craft breweries, and <strong>the macros [think Bud, Miller, and Coors, plus seltzer and canned cocktails] squeezed mid-sized breweries like us pretty hard<\/strong>\u201d with regards to distribution and off-premise sales, says Sellier.<\/p>\n<cite><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dcbeer.com\/2023\/01\/06\/beltway-brewing-closing-at-the-end-of-january\/\"><strong>Beltway Brewing Closing at the End of January<\/strong><\/a><\/em> \u2013 DC Beer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nats didn&#8217;t get the post-World Series bump in 2020 either and ownership&#8217;s non-baseball portfolio took a really big hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And then there is Strasburg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the weekend The Post published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2023\/06\/06\/stephen-strasburg-contract-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>a story about Stephen Strasburg<\/strong><\/a> and it&#8217;s quite grim. In short, he may be irrevocably broken. Not just as a pitcher either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this season,he lightly rehabbed at Nationals Park \u2014 in the mornings before most people showed up \u2014 and at a facility in Northern Virginia. For about 10 days, he made another push to throw off a mound. By mid-April, though, he was doing only lower-body exercises, according to two people familiar with his routine. The idea was to keep his lower half in shape while activating his trunk. But even those lower-body workouts strained the right side of his body because of the nerve damage. Pain, tingling and numbness shut him down again toward the end of the month.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2023\/06\/06\/stephen-strasburg-contract-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephen Strasburg is completely shut down from physical activity again<\/a> &#8211; The Post<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strasburg&#8217;s glory, including a World Series MVP, extracted a high physical toll. Ted Lerner seems to have negotiated against himself after the 2019 championship as well. He <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2023\/02\/rip-ted-lerner.html\"><strong>died earlier this<\/strong><\/a> year at age 97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t begrudge Strasburg collecting hundreds of millions from this contract. He put his body on his line and I imagine he&#8217;ll use every one of the remaining three years of his contract trying to pitch again. Or at least gain the full use of his body. I wish him well and treasure the memories he brought to our nation&#8217;s capital. It&#8217;s been a quite ride since he <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2010\/06\/nats-i-have-seen-the-future-of-baseball-and-it-is-stephen-strasburg.html\"><strong>debuted 13 years<\/strong><\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not the only DC sports beer label change&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelistwire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2021\/09\/WFTBeer.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Image of Devil's Backbone Ale to the Redskins beer. The name was changed when the Washington NFL franchise dropped the racist nickname in 2020.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back to beer, I&#8217;m not shedding tears over this label being obsolete. <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2022\/02\/washington-commanders-it-just-doesnt-matter-its-still-dan-snyders-franchise.html\"><strong>Commanders<\/strong><\/a> though? Boring! At least they appear to be on the way of being sold.<sup><a href=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/#footnote3\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Footnotes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"footnote1\"><sup>1 <\/sup>I learned in 2019 or so that Beltway&#8217;s founder had been a classmate of mine in elementary school. Good guy and a good brewery that deserved better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"footnote3\"><sup>2<\/sup> The Nats got to 25-32 on June 2, tying the Phillies for 4th place. They have since lost four in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>3 <\/sup>I will believe when it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no tears in my beer about the current Washington Nationals &#8211; the breweries closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,97,106],"tags":[137,248,250,251,263,1222,1711,1887],"class_list":["post-30628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-of-wwn","category-food-and-drink","category-transportation","category-washington-nationals","tag-3-stars-brewing","tag-beer","tag-beltway-brewing-co","tag-beltwayland-beer","tag-beverages","tag-nats","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-virginia-beer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The District of Champions curse? - William F. 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