So I went to the Nationals game last night. This would be rather unremarkable but for the fact that part of my identity is the guy who plays fantasy baseball without actually having gone to a major league game since the strike of 1994 (#94, to be updated). I’ve been to minor league games since [...]
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Tepid Pitch
Posted in baseball on May 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Pissing in the Wind
Posted in baseball on March 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I usually resist the urge to respond when I come across a sportswriter’s column that gets me riled up, lest I end up writing several letters a day. However, every once in a great while the urge to respond gets the better of me. This article was written in the context of a forthcoming book [...]
Nats Redux et cetera
Posted in baseball, Travel on November 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Damn Nationals!!! I wonder how much the final bill will be? Certainly higher than the latest revision. It was a bad deal when it was signed, and it’s only getting worse. Send ‘em to Vegas and let us be done with them!! In other news, I’m headed to Arizona tomorrow night for T-giving with my [...]
Back Despite Popular Demand
Posted in baseball, Humor on November 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
To build the new ballpark for the Washington Nationals, D.C. has filed papers to seize land from the 16 property owners with whom they have not been able to settle on a price. Apparently the most recalcitrant of the property owners runs a Chinese take-out restaurant — the city and the property owner are $500,000 [...]
Confession
Posted in baseball on May 6, 2005 | 2 Comments »
One thing that really bothers me is when I’m stuck in a traffic jam because of an accident. Actually, that’s not true — what bothers me is when I’m stuck because of damned rubberneckers slowing down to see the accident that’s already on the side of the road. What in the world are they hoping [...]
Another Reason to Hate the Nats
Posted in baseball on April 14, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I was walking home from work tonight, and as I made my way east on Independence Avenue, I noticed police slowly but surely blocking off traffic, even preventing pedestrians from crossing one side of Independence to another (fortunately I crossed before they started doing that). It wasn’t until I saw that the blockade continued on [...]
The Damn Nationals
Posted in baseball on March 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
DC has a new baseball team, the Nationals. Previously the wandering Expos, the team is being embraced by the region. They were the rejected team, having to travel to Puerto Rico for some home games over their last two seasons in Montreal, and they are coming to a long-rejected town, it having been over 30 [...]
