As I sat grumbling and fuming that it had taken me an hour to reach the Roosevelt Bridge Wednesday evening on my commute home from DC only to be greeted by yet another mysterious traffic backup, a funny thing happened. I called home to say I'd be late for dinner (no worries, traffic wasn't moving) and then began looking around to see where a robotic voice was coming from. I spotted it in a Smart car next to me - ... Continue Reading

Is that awesome or what?! Thanks Bob and silent Rob! I want to thank everyone for coming out last night and sweltering through record-breaking heat to watch another barn loss. I really thought the Nats were going to win through the first four innings. Michael Morse - two homeruns and a 5-1 lead! Who knew it would all fade away? You'd think I'd know by know no lead is ever completely safe. And please don't say the shout-out was the jinx, ... Continue Reading

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Amy K. Nelson (ESPN), Mike Hall (NESN), Jeff Pyatt (Real Clear Sports), Jeff Pearlman (SI), Dan Steinberg (WaPo), Bethlehem Shoals (FreeDarko) Yeah, you know how that line ends and the song keeps sticking in my head as I write a recap of “Blogs With Balls 1.0”. Actually, I don’t have the biggest of them all, clearly. It’s probably a good thing I have none of those dangly somewhat spherical objects at all, as I’ve been straddling a fence (hopefully not picket) ... Continue Reading

[ Photoset ] Ok, so that doesn't look like night, does it? That's because the event was originally scheduled for April 13th, which was rained out, so took place during the rescheduled day game of a day/night doubleheader on Saturday, May 16th. Other ballparks and sports venues have held blogger nights, so I was thrilled MASN set one up for the Nationals. We were treated to tours of the television broadcast booth, production trailer, Nats X-tra set, and also received ... Continue Reading