William World News William F. Yurasko's blog v.14 – Nats, Redskins, Capitals, D.C. life, transportation, not so much Penn State anymore,

Thom Loverro: Hey, Nats fans: Gillick could have been yours – The Wash. TimesIn 2004, Pat Gillick openly campaigned for the Nationals GM job, but was not even interviewed for the job at a time when MLB owned the team. Gillick instead took the Phillies job and well, right now he is in a parade [...]

In retrospect, this should have been this week’s music Tuesday — Alice Cooper on “The Muppet Show” singing “Welcome to My Nightmare.”
Bonus:

Alice Cooper, Muppets, Welcome to My Nightmare
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Traffic flows over section of Skytop – CDTAnother milestone in the poorly executed i-99 project is complete — northbound is now continuous through Skytop. The road narrows to one lane at one point, but the highway’s northbound is now continuous from Bedford County to just south of I-80. Both directions of the highway is supposed [...]

Cordero Becomes Free Agent – The PostCordero opts for free agency – The Wash. TimesChad Cordero, an original National, has filed for free agency rather than accept assignment to AAA Syracuse. The move was expected after Jim Bowden blurted out on WTEM that Cordero’s contract would not be tendered. Bowden lacked the professionalism and good [...]

With the Phillies World Series win, Washington is now tied with Minnesota’s Twin Cities for the longest title drought amongst 4-team major league markets (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA). Coincidentally, both the Redskins and Twins won their titles in the Metrodome in Minneapolis after their 1991 seasons, though the Redskins came in January 1992. Technically, the [...]

Your Phillies won the World Series(The Inky)! This is their second championship and first since 1980. It is also the city of Philadelphia’s first major championship since 1983 when the 76ers did it. Now we won’t have to hear about how Philly hasn’t had a parade anymore! We also won’t see yet another title go [...]

Even though it will not last long enough to become part of this upcoming season’s base, I am pleased to learn that Camelback ski resort in the Poconos, my favorite, has been blanketed by snow (might pop open Windows Media player). Over the weekend, I was telling my wife I already have skiing on the [...]

From Saturday night’s ABC telecast:

Penn State, Nittany Lions, Joe Paterno
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Q&A with slugger Ryan Zimmerman – nationals.com3B Ryan Zimmerman is a bit candid in this Q&A with Bill Ladson. While he does not offer anything controversial, he does have more to say than the standard ballplayer boilerplate answers. I like what I am hearing here.
Washington Nationals, Nats, Ryan Zimmerman
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I have no idea why this was an earworm today, but it was so it gets posted. When you get past the jumpsuits, drugs and fool’s gold sandwiches, late-period Elvis was some good stuff.
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