When will the product match the property?(SPORTS)

Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

You sit in the upper deck area three hours before game time, and you realize that only one word adequately describes Nationals Park.

Wow!

Nothing else prepares you for this - neither the glowing stories and pictures in print and on TV nor a baseball lifetime spent watching games at dilapidated Griffith Stadium and characterless RFK Stadium.

The Capitol dome rising in pristine glory far beyond the left-field stands (though it's visible only from the highest of four levels. The humongous, hi-def replay board atop the seats in ...

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