The good news is that Stephen Strasburg doesn’t need surgery on his injured knee. The continually bad news is that it is the second injury to the pitching phenom that has the potential to linger for years. Technorati Tags: Stephen Strasburg, Washington Nationals
In a season of repeated failure, Ryan Zimmerman played up to expectations and in the midst of laughs from home and opposing fans. In turn, his defense has earned him his first N.L. Gold Glove. At the hot corner, Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman completed one of the most well-rounded individual seasons in baseball [...]
Maybe I’m not the best baseball mind to be speaking on this, but it seems to me that a guy like Bobby Valentine, regarded for controversy as much as he is for success, wouldn’t be the best fit for a team regarded for failure as much as it is for losing. As such, I fully [...]
So the guy that brought in Esmailyn “Smiley” Gonzalez was unjustifiably fired? A Dominican Republic tribunal has ordered the Washington Nationals to pay US$40,000 in damages to a scout who was fired after signing a prospect who lied about his age. Jose Baez, the Nationals’ former director of operations in the Dominican Republic, sued the [...]
Either the Washington Nationals are very dumb, the Cleveland Indians are very smart, or they meet somewhere in the midst of Manny Acta’s warm smile and calming personality. Acta is the new manager of the Cleveland Indians, which is a job that is dangerously close to being as hopeless as the Nationals’ gig. Fortunately, Acta [...]
Adam Dunn hits his 38th home run on the season. Rob Dibble, perhaps auditioning to be the antagonist in the next round of Geico caveman commercials, had this to offer on the call. There goes Rob Dibble with his weird noises again. from Section 138 on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: Adam Dunn, Rob Dibble, Washington Nationals
This young Phillies fan had no clue that she actually was participating in a season-long campaign of Nats failure. So before your heart warms and aches for the little girl and her lost foul ball, look at the score, and remember that even the youngest of us embrace the Nats’ propensity to blow it. Technorati [...]
By now you’ve read all of the long-winded rhetoric from both sides of the Stephen Strasburg-Washington Nationals standoff. Even moronic MASN commentators and analysts have joined the fray. Look, you can say what you want about how greedy Scott Boras is, or how much good faith the Lerners have put into making an offer to [...]
Jamie Mottram has compiled a respectable list of things the Washington Nationals should do to improve for 2010. I have no qualms with any of the recommendations, but I suspect Rob Dibble will have plenty to say. Oh, and in case you’re wondering why I’m posting well after my proposed departure time for the Ravens [...]
Don’t get all swept up in the Washington Nationals winning ways, because you wind up writing something you’ll regret. Take Steve Yanda’s inexplicable lede to this sports story. In the coda of the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, composer Johann Sebastian Bach repeats the same chord sequence over and over again, leading the listener [...]
