Lotta weird things for the Nats yesterday. It didn't rain. The OTHER GUYS blew the game late with a Little League-ish meltdown. And, get this: The bullpen held onto a ninth inning lead! (Where were you when the Reds needed you, Joel Hanrahan?) The Washington Times called the win over the Reds "LUCKY" in the [...]
Freaks take the fun out of everything. To wit: The Bowie Baysox are planning another figurine giveaway. On June 17, the first 1,000 fans ages three and up will get a free "Matt Wieters Collectible Figurine."
But because a few bizarros have caused problems at past events, this won't be your father's baseball giveaway.
The Nats take Stephen Strasburg.
That's big news, in the same way that "Adam Lambert Is Gay!" was big news yesterday. (Kudos to whoever wrote the headline for the Lambert story in Strasburg's local paper: "Adam Lambert Says He's Gay; Also, Sun Rises in East")
And anti-kudos to the headline Sports Illustrated gave its baseball draft story: [...]
Today, the Nats lost more than just a game (the team got blanked 7-0 vs. the Mets), the Nats also lost use of its pyrotechnics. D.C. Fire Chief Dennis Rubin put at least a temporary end to the stadium's fireworks displays. Rubin attended today's game, and after a fireworks display for the National Anthem ordered [...]
John Scheinman, also known as The Last Turf Writer the Washington Post Ever Had, has passed along his picks for today's Belmont Stakes: Chocolate Candy, Charitable Man, and Mine That Bird. And some advice: "Box 'em and cash!"
Sure, Scheinman in this very same space tossed Rachel Alexandra out of the mix on Preakness Day.
So bless [...]
The Amazin' Nats did it again, losing 6-1 to the Mets in NY.
The only Nats run came via a home run by Adam Dunn, who by now is surely being asked by other guys in the locker room for hitting tips and, um, you know, dietary advice. Dunn has gotten himself into the mix as [...]
Could season ticket worries have played a part in the Redskins' tampering case?
Albert Haynesworth's former employer, the Tennessee Titans, have long been saying that Dan Snyder had a deal worked out with the star lineman too early. By NFL bylaw, it's illegal to even begin negotiations with another team's players until the free agent signing [...]
All things must pass: Adam Dunn singled (!) home Nick Johnson with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the 8th, and Joel Hanrahan closed out (!) the Pittsburgh 9th to give the Nats their first win (!) in 8 games.
Even with the win, Washington sits six-and-a-half games out of second-to-last place in the NL [...]
D.C.'s second-best panda showed all the signs. There was the hormone in the urine. There was the lack of energy and changes to her appetite. There was the drop in the hormone in the urine, which happens just before birth. And, lastly, there was the fact that she ovulated and the zoo staff attempted to [...]
Sounds like Rob Dibble has already seen enough.
Dibble, the Nationals color commentator, spoke for every fan yesterday. He went off when second baseman Anderson Hernandez jumped out of the way of a fine throw from pitcher Jesus Colome on a routine sacrifice attempt in the eighth inning and the Nats up a run over Philly.
Hernandez's [...]
A day after the crushingest defeat of his Capitals ownership, Ted Leonsis went on "The Sports Reporters" on WTEM-980.
He was awesome.
Hosts Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin brought up the rumored but unspecified injuries to Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green, giving Leonsis an opportunity to blame his team's ouster from the Stanley Cup playoffs on mitigating [...]
Sports Illustrated released Top 5 best/worst owners lists for all the major sports. Our town's fabulously represented, though only on the dark side.
First off: Ted Leonsis somehow wasn't included among hockey's best. If there's ever been a more beloved sports owner in this town than Leonsis circa 2009, I can't remember him.
Hard to believe it's [...]
"THERE WILL BE A GAME 7 AT VERIZON CENTER!"
That's how Caps' play-by-play man Steve Kolbe ended his awesome call of David Steckel's game winner last night from Pittsburgh.
Nothing like OT playoff hockey on the radio.
The game started lousy for the eventual winners. At the end of the 1st period, with the Caps down 1-0 and [...]
I don't think we've hit full swine flu hysteria yet. But this is close. The Associated Press reported last night that two drunk dudes flying in from Cancun caused a swine flu panic by the time they landed at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The AP writes:
"The commotion began when AirTran Flight 85 from Cancun, [...]
Last Wednesday, a family of loud white Louisianans wearing "Washington, D.C." sweatshirts underneath clear plastic ponchos waddled out of the drizzle at Sherman Circle and up the steps of the 62 bus.
The group seemed unaware of the Unwritten Rule of the 62: No talking. (I've ridden the 62 at least a hundred times over the [...]
