voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/13/2009
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I haven't watched MASN since the final day of the regular baseball season and I probably won't click over there until Spring Training starts; if you're not a Baltimore sports fan there's nothing in its fall/winter programming that's at all interesting. It sure looks like Angelos runs a TV ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/14/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
I noted yesterday the recent Sports Business Journal
report that had the Nats as the biggest percentage...
gainers in regional TV ratings, despite still having the smallest total television audience. Overall, I thought it was goodish news. This, though, ...
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Orioles Still Get More D.C. Viewers Than Nats
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The Rob Dibble Effect?
The Nationals Enquirer —
... Over at the DC Sports Bog, Dan Steinberg takes a break from piling on the Redskins to breaking down Sports Business Journal's MLB regular-season TV ratings report. Dan highlights the good, and the bad: ...
DMV: Carlos Rogers Would Like One Of Those ‘Snyder Sucks’ T-Shirts, Thanks
Mr. Irrelevant —
... RG. [WaPo]
The Skins are favored by 6.5 on Sunday. Does not compute. [Hogs Haven]
Skins are facing their sixth consecutive winless team. [Joe Posnanski]
Phillip Daniels has a torn biceps, will continue to play. [Redskins Blog]
Jim Bowden says the Nats manager search includes Riggleman, Mattingly, Valentine, Duncan and Yost. [Federal Baseball]
Nats TV audience is MLB’s biggest gainer, also it’s smallest. [Sports Bog]
Nats scouting director leaves for a better job with Toronto. [Nats ...
Tuesday Linkage
Fang's Bites —
... From the Washington Post, Dan Steinberg of the DC Sports Bog says the Nationals' ratings had the biggest rise from the previous season. ...
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Nats closer MacDougal has hip surgery (AP) —
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