Grant & Danny can't hold back the snark: A Nationals fan suing the team for age discrimination over a themed discount?

So here’s a wild one from the ‘what’s up with that?’ file: according to WaPo, a Nationals fan who ‘did not qualify for a great deal that the Nats have offered over the last couple of years sued them, and he ruined it for everyone else.’

“A millennial sued the Nationals over their young professionals discount, and it has gone away,” Grant read from the article. “So this guy was born in the early-eighties, and when he turned 40 last year, he no longer qualified for a millennial discount at Nationals Park, and now, he is suing the club in DC court for age discrimination, along with another fan who is almost 60, saying that the discounts on tickets, concessions and merchandise offered to fans ages 21 to 39 are a violation of DC law.”

Couldn’t just wait another quarter-century for the senior discount, apparently, and indeed, the Nats have discontinued the young professionals discount – but the lawsuit will go on, as the plaintiffs want ‘a court ruling to prevent any similar discounts in the future, and the Nationals to ‘compensate older fans who paid full price while these promotions were available.’

“Navy Yard neighborhood, come on down here, it's a good time. A lot of beers, a lot of bars and restaurants and cool stuff, and everyone walking around is like very fit and 23-24, single or young couples that have French Bulldogs and Pugs and they go to Nats games at night because they're here and they got some disposable income,” Grant said.

But no discounts, and now, the Nats trying to court those folks with one is a problem?

“The Nats basically said hey, a lot of people in this neighborhood, and heck, in this city, are young professionals, let's give them a discount to come to games – just like on JMU Day, when you show your student ID and get a discount if you went to JMU,” GP said. “I guess if you go to Stanford, you should sue, because this guy…it sounds like he did take advantage of it, but then aged out of it and sued, and now the Nationals now have gotten rid of the policy.”

Danny Rouhier, it’s open mic night at your comedy shack.

“That’s great. What a wonderful achievement. You know, there's a bar not far from me that does ladies' night, you want to take them on next? Like, no cover charge on Thursdays or some crap," Danny said.

“It's actually a good point, they have themed nights like that. Are you gonna sue them about that too?” Grant said. “What a stupid, stupid thing to care about.”

‘Really aggravating,’ Danny concurred, and he understands why the Nationals didn’t even bother defending the idea and shutting it down…we think?

“I get them saying ‘we're not dealing with this, we'll just shut it down, this isn't worth it,’ because here's what baseball's facing, by the way, just existentially: they need young people to be involved in baseball,” Danny said. “Play the game, go to games, care about the team, the whole nine yards. What better way than to get them in the habit of coming to the ballpark?”

“I think that that's actually part of this, to be honest with you. They've got to have meetings all the time – every team, not just the Nationals – about how to sustain this as a sport and get more young people,” GP replied. “It’s not just kids, which they talk about a lot, but they’ve moved weeknight start times up to 6:40 for families, and they've made the game go by faster. They've literally changed rules that existed for decades and decades to try to combat that and get younger people into games.”

And Grant had a personal example:

“My wife's cousin, all of her friends live in this neighborhood; they're like mid-to-upper-20s, JMU sorority girls who now work in DC, used to live in Arlington but all moved to the Navy Yard, and they go to a lot of Nats games,” he said. “It’s just the night where they go eat, they drink, they hang out, they sit at the Red Porch, talk to people and shtick it up, whatever. I'm not saying they wouldn't go without this discount, but it probably doesn't hurt. It’s a smart business move, it's the right play, and a couple of guys who go, ‘I can't have the fun, no one can’ – like, what a stupid, stupid thing to be angry about.”

“I understand if you've been aggrieved and something's been taken from you; by all means, let's go to court and get restitution, let's win that back,” Danny replied. “Because someone else gets something nice? That's very different to me. What a horse's ass.”

G&D then took a call from Kevin in Centreville who wants someone to sue because kids get to run the bases on Sundays, or something similarly asinine to be mad about, and that just set them off even more.

“Honestly, how is it different? Couldn't they then sue because 12 and under get the cape, or whatever?” GP said. “What is to keep someone from suing, if these guys are able to do it, and God forbid they're successful? I hope they lose, but it gets dragged out for a long time and they spend so much money. But if they win, what is to prevent them next from saying, ‘here's all my receipts from all the refreshments I've ever gotten at 93 games at the ballpark while kids ate free, I want all my money back?’ Is that next?”

“What do you mean kids eat free? What about 42-year-olds?” Danny snarked back. “I'm sure a legal scholar will tell you that when a certain amount of money changes hands or something, that's why this one can go and other ones can't, but it's just the principle of it to me, something I will never get behind or understand. Senior citizens are eligible for senior discounts, you don't see me over here screaming at the AARP. It’s nonsense! It should be just fine, you're not affected. If they were up-charging you because you're whatever age that you aged out of this, okay, you just singled me out in a negative way, I got some gripes about that. But all the teenagers that can't afford it, the 25-year-olds that are barely making rent, the college students that don't have any cash, they get in for five bucks? That's great, there's no problem there.”

And then Danny with the dagger:

“You know what the best thing you could do is? Don't go if you're bothered. Stay at home, because the world's too hard for you. Just sit there under a blanket and wait for the end.”