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Washington Nationals, Nats, Ronnie Belliard, Baltimore Orioles
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Fiddling Around With History – The PostGene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize winning story about a world-class violinist playing before subway patrons was not original! The same thing happened in 1930 in Chicago.
PREVIOUSLYPost PulitzersWeingarten does it againQ&A: Gene Weingarten
Gene Weingarten, Joshua Bell,
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The next James Bond movie trailer is out; terrible title though.
James Bond, 007, trailer, Quantam of Solace
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Here is the lineup (courtesy of Nationals Journal) that the Nationals used yesterday in beating the hated, cowardly, subsidized Orioles:
Bernadina – 8Guzman – 2Dukes – 9Boone – 3Casto – 5Pena – 7Harris – 4Nieves – 2Bergmann – 1
That is pretty far from a murderous row isn’t it? Yet, despite such an uninspiring lineup, the [...]

Nationals Double Up on Visiting Orioles – The PostNationals finding a high note – The Wash. TimesNationals turn to Casto, Harris for offense – The Free Lance-StarCabrera misses again – The SunKory Casto beats Peter Angelo$. Sweet! Now, go win the next two.
Please trade FLop (The Post) to the Baltimore (The Wash. Times) — Angelo$ [...]

Downtown cereal spot closes shop – The CollegianI did not need to backtrack from my “not enough for a successful business model” comment about the State College Cereality after all. The store on W. College Ave. has closed.
Penn State, State College, Cereality
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Starting tomorrow night, the Nats face off against the hated Orioles owned by the villainous Peter Angelo$, the guy who voted against the team being here, was undeservingly given 90% of the Nationals TV rights by MLB and then kept the Nats off of TV for almost two years. Rather than rehash all the [...]

Washington Nationals – The Post“Washington Post Nationals beat writer Chico Harlan will be online Wednesday, June 25 at 2 p.m. ET to take your questions and comments about the Washington Nationals.”
Nationals Chat 06-25 – The Wash. Times“Nationals beat writer Mark Zuckerman answers all of your Nationals questions this Wednesday at 1 p.m.”
Suggested topics:
The Nats training [...]

Ah, The Sundays, they had a few hits back in the 90s.
I was going to use this on the day that I announced I was cutting back on Nats blogging, but it did not wind up being a Tuesday.
I hope Harriet Wheeler resumes her career someday, what a voice.
The Sundays, Where the Story [...]

Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell of The Ultimate Sports Roadtrip, attended last weekend’s games at Nationals Park. These two guys from Buffalo have been to every venue in each of the traditionally four big North American sports leagues (and then some). Back in 2005, I (unknowingly) talked to one of them during batting practice [...]