Man, if the team hadn’t just resigned Livan! (I can’t remember how to do the upside down exclamation point on my Mac), I wouldn’t know what player to really look forward to watching. Well, maybe Wil Nieves (you know me and catchers). Nyjer Morgan broke his left hand sliding stealing third base in the first [...]

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From the firing of Manny Acta to Tommy John surgery on Jordan Zimmermann, this has been a rough season and there’s still time to go. Maybe it’s time I step back and not get so involved because I’m beginning to think I’m a curse.
The news of rookie Jordan Zimmermann’s elbow was especially hard to take [...]

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Jordan Zimmermann will kick off this season’s Q&A series at ESPN Zone at noon downtown today instead of Scott Olsen. Be there to meet the new hurler!
Ross Detwiler starts tonight. Based on things I’ve heard and yesterday’s Smithsonian Q&A with Mike Rizzo, I think he was going to be called up even before anyone [...]

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A day late, of course. Hope all the moms out there had great ones. And I hope everyone had a wonderful time with the moms in their lives.
My kids and Mr. Chatter took me to the batting cages at Upton Hill park. Believe it or not it’s what I wanted to do and we had [...]

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Joe Beimel, the most effective and consistent reliever who did not compare the Nats to a 4 AM J-Lo, made the above fantastic defensive play in the 8th inning last night to throw Kelly Johnson out on a bunt-for-hit attempt. Applause and hoots echoed through the nearly empty stadium for his success in keeping a [...]

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