Published 6/5/2009
at Nationals Journal
According to the Capital Weather Gang, the chances of rain today are 100 percent. Given that it's raining right now, this seems like valid information. But the forecast also indicates that showers ought to pass through -- finally -- by the early evening, so perhaps the Nats can finally play a baseball game on time. If they do, they square off against former teammate Tim Redding, who is struggling (0-2, 9.20 ERA) in a manner that recalls, well, his former team. Now, the full reading list... Boswell, in his latest column, writes that blame for the current fiasco "must lie at the top with the billionaire Lerner family and team president Stan Kasten." Here's the game story from Randy Johnson's 300th win. As for other Unitary reading: Tim Lincecum tells the New York Times that "The only 300 I can see at this point in my career is the movie."
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