ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Major League Baseball’s Minister of Fun Bryce Harper received the keys to the city of Washington before the Washington Nationals’ home opener on Thursday and that’s no small trinket.
The last time the city gave the keys to a star athlete was eight years ago, when Alex Ovechkin stood on the steps of the Wilson Building downtown and declared, “Today I got the key to the city, and today I am president of the city. So there will be no speeding tickets in the city today because there is no speed limit.”
Harper invoked no such anarchy when presented with the keys by Mayor Muriel Bowser.