federalbaseball.com - 13 days ago
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In early 2007, when then-DC GM Jim Bowden signed right fielder Austin Kearns to a 3-year/$17.5 million dollar deal with a $10 million dollar club ...
sports.espn.go.com - 15 days ago
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WASHINGTON -- The Washington Nationals have declined their
$10 million option on outfielder Austin Kearns and are
paying a $1 million buyout, presumably ending his disappointing tenure with the team. The 29-year-old Kearns hit only .195 with three ...
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maurybrown.com - 15 days ago
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The job market is tough these days. Reuters
just reported that the national jobless rate is at
10.2 percent, a 16 and 1/2 year high. And while MLB attendance was down less than expected (the 2009 regular season ended with 73,418,529 in total attendance a decline of 6.58 percent. See Inside ...
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Nationals Front Office Latest to See Pink Slips
mlb.mlb.com - 10 days ago
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By Bill Ladson / MLB.com 11/11/09 7:51 PM
EST WASHINGTON -- The Nationals have decided to name
Jim Riggleman the permanent manager, according to a baseball source. The news comes five months after he was named the interim skipper, replacing Manny ...
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Riggleman hired as Nationals manager
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Free Agency Begins Applesauce - AFL updates, Mets likely to be active in market, Phils cut Feliz
Amazin' Avenue —
... that the Mets are likely to end up with Matt Holliday, Randy Wolf, and Brad Penny in their free agent shopping cart.
Let's reminisce about 40 years of Sesame Street with a Ron Darling guest appearance.
Around the NL East
The Phillies are clearing house a little, declining Pedro Feliz's $5 million option.
Shane Victorino gives us another reason to hate him: Jon Gosselin.
Washington also got rid of some dead weight.
Whatever the Marlins got for Jeremy ...
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0-19? Try 110-52 . . .
centerfieldgate.com 10/21/2009 — What’s so astonishing (well, at least to me) is that Nats fan Steve Krupin — the subject of a cheeky Sports Illustrated commentary on the fortunes of fate (and what it means to be a fan of the Anacostia Nine) – sits just one row ahead of me in Section 129. It’s not that ...
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passion4baseball.blogspot.com 10 days ago — Our nation's capital hasn't seen a good team in a good long while. Going back and including the Washington Senators who left for Minnesota in 1961, Washington baseball teams have come in last place seven out of nine seasons and one of those seasons was a next-to-last-place team. Not only were ...
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Here's my story on the Nats' manager search from the dead-tree edition, in which I write that Bobby Valentine has emerged as "an intriguing possibility" and that Jim Riggleman represents a more "conservative" choice who has the backing of "many in the ...
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