thenatsblog.com - 10/14/2009
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I recently stumbled across a documentary online called, “ Sonicsgate, Reqium for a Team. ” I went into it expecting to see poorly constructed arguments and bias edits constructed by an impassioned few who still wished the team was in the rainy city, but who were not overall representative ...
National Embarrassment Part 2?
thenatsblog.com 11/2/2009 —
Whether you consider it irony or tragedy, Redskins season has come in Washington and has given D.C. sports fans no solace from the bad taste of 100 loss baseball. From as early as April of the 2009 Nationals season, the cries echoed throughout Washington ...
The Road to 100 Losses: Spend Less, Get Less
beyondtheboxscore.com 9/30/2009 —
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by Haraz N. Ghanbari - AP
Even if guys like Adam Dunn, left, and Cristian Guzman, right, keep producing the way they are, the Nationals can't afford to pay them free agent rates. Wonder if ...
The Road to 100 Losses: Poor Nationals Pitching Paves the Way
beyondtheboxscore.com 9/28/2009 —
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by Charles Dharapak - AP
"Natinals" third baseman Ryan Zimmerman tries to play through the pain of having a misspelled jersey and a hapless team season. If it makes you feel any better, Ryan, at ...
So what REALLY went wrong?
mvn.com 10/6/2009 — When you have a season as bad as the Nats just had usually it's a combination of bad play and bad luck. That's a given. But how much of it was bad luck exactly? This may seem unimportant. 59 wins is 59 wins after all regardless ...
Oleanders and Morning Glories - Attendance
mvn.com 9/23/2009 — No matter how you look at it that's the truth. Prior to the season I looked at the numbers and felt that 2.0 million would be the "right floor", factoring in the previous years attendance, how other teams with new ball parks nearly all dropped in ...
Arizona Fall League Update: Washington Nationals (10/15)
dcprosportsreport.com 10/15/2009 — The Pheonix Desert Dogs won last night 4-2 in MLB's Arizona Fall
League. The Washington Nationals have 6 prospects playing for Phoenix
2006 first round
pick Chris Marrero one day after starting his AFL out by
homering, went 2 for 4 with a double, walk, and an RBI.
is hitting .429. 2009 ...
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 ...
Hip-hop sparking Expos resurgence
nationalpost.com 9/25/2009 — MONTREAL -- It was five years ago this month that the last pitch was thrown at Olympic Stadium, but walking the city's streets these days you might think the Montreal Expos were in the thick of a pennant race. Young men wear Expos caps, jerseys and ...
Mets and Dibs at “Chatter Up”
centerfieldgate.com 9/18/2009 — The Nats-Mets match-up has sparked another friendly exchange of questions from “N.L. Least” bloggers. This time the N.L. East Chatter community and the guys from The Real Dirty Mets Blog (TRDMB) and Phillies Phandom provided questions for Centerfield Gate (CFG) on the state of the Nats. Some ...
Thoughts from Day 1 in AZ —
Nationals Journal 10/14/2009
Random thoughts after one day at the Arizona Fall League: * I found out there is no clubhouse access. That hurt. Never occurred to me access would be different than it is at the ML level. I figured it would easier to get guys aside down here than ...
Nats Bolster Front Office —
Nationals Journal 10/14/2009
The Washington Nationals have made significant progress in restocking their depleted front office, hiring Roy Clark as their new assistant general manager and promoting Kris Kline as their new scouting director, according to a source. The team could ...
Nats tap Red Sox exec for int'l. dept. —
SI.com - MLB 10/14/2009
Another critical piece of the Washington Nationals efforts to rebuild their operations abroad was put into place Wednesday afternoon when Boston Red Sox Latin American coordinator Johnny DiPuglia accepted a position as the Nationals director of ...
Nats Hire New Point Man For Dominican —
Nationals Journal 10/15/2009
The Washington Nationals hired Johnny DiPuglia as their new Latin American operations director on Wednesday, charging him with the substantial task of rebuilding the team's international scouting system. DiPuglia's hiring, first reported by SI.com, ...