27 days ago - How does one define the word “cheap?” The textbook definition is pretty inclusive: “Costing very little; inexpensive;” or “stingy, miserly.” Some Nats fans seem to be applying that latter definition to club ownership recently, and for one specific reason.
40 days ago - There’s a 3-word phrase that’s a standard part of virtually every pitching coaches’ verbal repertoire whenever he visits the mound: “Trust your stuff.”
48 days ago - The last time the Nationals were in San Francisco, they split a four game series against the Giants. They also ended up on the front page of every newspaper in North America.
55 days ago - Nationals’ fans can only hope that NL All-Star skipper Clint Hurdle finds a way to get shortstop Cristian Guzman into tonight’s game at Yankee Stadium in some meaningful way. Guzman leads the league in hits with 126, and is second overall in Major League Baseball. Plus, he was originally a Yankee product, traded away to Minnesota for Chuck Knoblauch in 1998. One would hope he’d get more than just a token at-bat.
69 days ago - Interleague play — save for a Pirates-Yankees makeup game — has concluded for the 2008 season. You’ll pardon my lack of grief over this situation.