Archive for March, 2008

2008 Curly W #2!

The Nationals just defeated the Phillies 11-6 at Citizen’s Bank Park in an exciting back and forth game. After the Nats squandered a 6-2 lead, they blew up in the 9th inning, getting five runs off of closer Tom Gordon. They must have hit three balls off the wall in the inning.
I heard on the [...]

Oh, it’s on

Don’t let the lack of logo (I’m nearly finished) fool you, the 3rd Annual Cheesesteak/Half-Smoke Challenge is on! Cliff and I are continuing our annual “mayors bet” on the Nationals vs. Phillies series this season. Since his Fleas won last year, the foodstuff he is defending gets top billing.
Right now, the series is tied [...]

Opening Night thoughts

Metro was very crowded on the way in, but efficient.
I like the walk down Half Street with the balloons and all the bunting. Everything looks good on Opening Day/Night.
Security lines were not bad when we went through.
I walked around the stadium taking photographs, which I will upload tonight. Some seats have Capitol dome views, while [...]

Ryan Zimmerman is Mr. Walkoff

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ryan Zimmerman sent a telegram to the baseball world this evening: “I am Mr. Walkoff.” The fourth-year third baseman did with a ninth inning solo home run into the left field seats. His homer won the first game at Nationals Park for the home team. This may be even better than [...]

I’m going to Opening Night!

Woo hoo! My parents won one of the second-chance lotteries for Opening Night tickets and let me have them. Thanks!
I actually didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the Nats yesterday. The Cherry Blossoms and Newseum preview took up just about all of the daylight hours, so I didn’t even get to read too [...]

2008 Cherry Blossoms

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, instead of blogging at dawn, I was down around the Tidal Basin taking photographs. I had never gotten up to see the Cherry Blossoms that early and I was glad that I did, despite the chill.
Later in the day, I went the Newseum for an early-bird preview. I’ll have more [...]

Blue White Roundtable: We interupt wall-to-wall Nats coverage for some spring football

The Blue White game is three weeks from tomorrow and we’re already talking football. My head is spinning.
Mike from Black Shoe Diaries has this week’s questions.
Let’s start with the ugly news. Chris Baker, Chris Bell, Phil Taylor, Knowledge Timmons, and Navorro Bowman are all sitting out the spring practice sessions. What impact will this have [...]

Heartless

Bustin’ Loose’ and ‘Beautiful Day’ Make Nats Play List – WTOP“Heart” from the musical Damn Yankees came in fourth in fan voting for the 7th inning stretch song. Nats fans — you have let me down.
At least “Bustin’ Loose” will be the home run song.
©MMX William F. Yurasko

Opening Night Eve Eve

Nationals leave Viera on winning note – Florida TodayNationals say goodbye to Viera in 2008 – Florida TodayLannan leaves in fine form – The Wash. TimesThe Nationals finished up spring training yesterday, beating the cowardly, hated Orioles, before flying back home. John Lannan pitched well again and has made a strong case for being the [...]

Nationals Park information

I am going to aggregate all of the evergreen Nationals Park information I can find right here. I will be updating this as necessary.
INSIDE NATIONALS PARK
Brief notes:
Bottles of water up to 1 liter are permitted
Small soft-sided coolers are permitted
Single serving packaged food from outside the ballpark is permitted
Gate Times at Nationals Park
Nationals Park A-Z Guide
General [...]

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