Archive for June, 2010

While I approve of throwing Screech out of a plane…

Inexplicably named Nats mascot Screech still gaining acceptance.

New brewery, Port City, coming to Alexandria

A real local brewery is coming to Alexandria.

Nats: Strasburg wins; enough with Manny Acta already

Strasburg has off-day, Manny Acta finds a way to hurt the Nats again this weekend.

Strasburg does Letterman’s Top Ten; Nats sweep Pirates

I’m obligated to post this video.

I told you Leonsis wasn’t going to change the Wizards name

Nobody cared about the Bullets when I was a kid.

Nats: I have seen the future of baseball and it is Stephen Strasburg

Stephen Strasburg exceeds my expectations.

Strasburg debut: The hype’s end is nigh

To the most beautiful moment in life, better than a deed, better than a memory, the moment… of anticipation!
- Jacques Brunswick
In about four hours Stephen Strasburg will throw out his first pitch as a Washington Nationals player with over 80,000 eyes in Nationals Park and hundreds of thousands of television viewers looking on. Then [...]

Hope for DC sports from…Secaucus?

In which I ponder the place of Secaucus in the history of D.C. sports. Really.

Stephen Strasburg, Va.?

Once it became apparent that Stephen Strasburg was going to become a member of the Washington Nationals, I wondered if and when Strasburg, Va., a Shenandoah Valley town, would seek to link itself with him. That wondering is over, they are already at it.
The story of renamestrasburg.com broke today. Justin Ritenour, a 21 year old [...]

Breast cancer sucks

Most of us know people who have had breast cancer I think the headline above says it pretty concisely, doesn’t it?
My wife Erica is walking in the 2010 Susan G Komen Global Race for the Cure tomorrow morning. I hope you will consider supporting her participation with a donation.
Thanks to all those who [...]

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