Washington Times · Apr 2, 2017
LOVERRO: Decades without make Opening Day worth savoring
ANALYSIS/OPINION
Scientists have predicted that babies born in the year 2000 and beyond have a better than 50 percent chance of living to be 100 years old.
For children born in Washington then, that is the second-best thing about being growing up here in the 21st century.
The first? A baseball team to call their own.
Those born in and around the District in 2000 have had the pleasure of growing up in a world without the absence of a Washington baseball team. They’ll have memories and stories that their mothers and fathers don’t, moments that are indelible over a lifetime — even one that lasts 100 years.