On perhaps Bryce Harper’s last day at Nationals Park Wednesday, the superstar outfielder declared that Washington was “his city.”
Not really. It was his office, and even that, more like a satellite office, like all the other ballparks, where he came to work.
He never really embraced Washington like he could have — not like teammates Max Scherzer and Sean Doolittle. And the longer Harper stayed, the most distance he seemed to put between him and his so-called city.
There was a time, though, when it seemed Harper would someday be the Prince of the City, a moment when it felt like all things were possible for Harper and the District of Columbia.