thenatsblog.com - 6/5/2009
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Sitting the game tonight, I was finally able to pinpoint something that has bothered me for a long time.
The Washington Nationals, in an effort to build a fan base, have tried overwhelmingly hard to create a tradition out of nothing. It was a marketing scheme from the beginning. The Nats ...
The Nationals Would Be in First If...
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/25/2009 — The Washington Nationals would be in first place if...if the games were only three or four innings long. The Nationals have played 69 games and have lost 49 of them. The Fan follows the games every night and it always seems like the Nationals are in the lead. In fact, tonight, the Fan saw the ...
Are the Washington Nationals really the worst team you've ever seen?
thenatsblog.com 5/31/2009 —
Right now the club is on pace to go 44-118. This would give them the third most losses in a season in Major League Baseball since 1920. It would surpass them as the worst Washington team ever as the 1909 Senators went 42-110, and it would staple them as the official embarrassment of Major ...
The Obvious
310tojoba.blogspot.com 6/3/2009 — True fact: The Nationals are a terrible, terrible baseball franchise. From the top down, with the exception of Ryan Zimmerman ( but even he is sucking it up of late! ), the organization is loaded with glaring holes. Worse, there seems to be no clear direction to take to fix the problem because ...
Nationals Should Pass on Strasburg
dugoutcentral.com 6/9/2009 — The Washington Nationals will select San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg first overall in the 2009 draft.
But maybe it shouldn’t be as automatic as we believe.
Strasburg is well deserving of most of the headlines and accolades thrown his ...
You Usin' the Whole Fist There, Doc?
gheorghe77.blogspot.com 5/13/2009 — Last night in San Francisco, Pedro Sandoval hit a 2-out, 2-strike offering from Joe Beimel over everything to give the Giants a come-from-behind 9-7 victory. Standard issue walk-off, jumping up and down by the home team, tough one for the vistors. Move along, nothing to see here. If only it ...
GM Goes Government; Washington Nationals Should Consider the Same
myteamrivals.typepad.com 6/2/2009 — General Motors is busted . My dignity (whatever there was of it) is also busted . And in case you haven't noticed, the 2009 Washington Nationals are most definitely busted . Now I realize that it has become clich é hack to go after the lowly Natinals
and all their shame -- that by ...
Washington Nationals: Outline Of A Firesale
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 6/17/2009 — The Nationals are still a disaster. They sit dead last in the NL East and have the worst record in baseball. There is talk that the Nationals will soon fire Manager Manny Acta as the front office continues to try and find ways to salvage the rest of ...
Nattosphere Draft Predictions
thenatsblog.com 6/8/2009 — Dave Nichols from the Nationals News Network and myself teamed up to try and analyze tomorrows MLB First-Year-Player-Draft. While it is all but a lock that Steven Strasburg will go number one to our Washington Nationals, it is uncertain who the Nats will take with their 10th overall pick in the ...
Nats take it to Lincecum, win 10-6
thenatsblog.com 6/3/2009 —
The scene seemed all too familiar last night as the Nationals trailed the Giants in the late innings at Nats Park. The Nationals batters had given a valiant effort against arguably the most dominant pitchers in baseball, Tim Lincecum, but to no avail, as they trailed 5-4 and ...
A Wet Doubleheader Sweep —
Nationals Journal 6/5/2009
Rain delayed the start of the first game and cut short the conclusion of the second game, but in between, the Washington Nationals managed to lose twice and score twice. Though Randy Johnson stole the main storyline by winning his 300th game, ...
Teammates relish Johnson's 300th —
Major League Baseball News 6/5/2009
Randy Johnson won his 300th game Thursday when the Giants scored a 5-1 victory over Washington in the first game of a doubleheader at Nationals Park. But there was no question that the rest of the Giants felt grateful and even a bit humbled to be a ...
The True Washington Nationals' Traditions —
Bleacher Report - MLB 6/5/2009
Sitting at the game tonight, I was finally able to pinpoint something that has bothered me for a long time.
The Washington Nationals, in an effort to build a fan base, have tried overwhelmingly hard to create a tradition out of nothing. It ...