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Good morning, baseball is back! We’re about 4 hours away from the first pitch and despite the weather, I’m pretty excited to be celebrating the holiday. This is the exactly 7 more Opening Days than I expected we’d have in Washington — yes, I’m still of the “derp, we have a team!” philosophy.
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I have gone back and forth on the Washington Nationals this offseason. They improved 10 games in 2010, despite a disappointing starting rotation. This season, the best part of 2010’s rotation, Stephen Strasburg, is recovering from Tommy John surgery. However, I expect the rotation to improve even without Strasburg. I expect a bounce-back season from [...]

Fairfax Co. to recommend Metro station names – WTOP
Fairfax County is set to make recommendations for the Silver Line Metro stations within its borders. Going from West to East, the suggestions are Herndon-Dulles East (near Route 28), Herndon-Reston West (near Monroe Street), Reston Town Center (near Reston Parkway), Reston-Wiehle Avenue, Tysons-Spring Hill Road (Route 7 [...]

This Screaming Trees song was an earworm yesterday, so I post it today:

When I sang a few bars to reacquaint my wife with it, my son laughed a lot.

Remember the guest prognosticator series that occasionally ran last fall during the Redskins season? I have brought it back from baseball season. I am going to run a Q&A and prediction with a fan of the Washington Nationals opposition whenever I know a fan of them. To start off, I have John Taylor of DC-based [...]

The 2011 Washington Nationals Opening Day roster is set and it is not one that inspires much confidence in me. When guys like Jerry Hairston, Jr. make the team and Roger Bernadina don’t, my enthusiasm for the season is tempered. Not that Bernadina is necessarily part of the future (he almost certainly isn’t) but because [...]

Metro’s new board members take on a troubled, aging rail system – The Post
The second longest subway system in the United States turned 35 yesterday and it is safe to say that it is an old 35. The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority has its work cut out for it to get the system into good [...]

Is Ted Leonsis failing to learn from one of his favorite sayings?

THOMAS BOSWELL: Are better days ahead for the Nationals? – The Post
After seeing Jordan Zimmermann pitch well against the Detroit Tigers (their Opening Day lineup), Bos is back on the Washington Nationals getting better bandwagon after panicking last week. Now, Bos of all people should know not to put too much faith in spring training [...]

BREAKING: Per @washingnats Nyjer Morgan has been traded from the Washington Nationals for Cutter Dykstra. Yes, he’s Lenny Dykstra’s son. At the very least, the trade has to be addition by subtraction. It is too bad it didn’t work out, because Morgan’s play in 2009 made that season a lot more interesting for a couple [...]