Posts Tagged ‘Bob Carpenter’

Nats offer Carpenter "until we find someone we like better" contract

Carpenter may return as Nats TV voice – nationals.comThe Nationals have offered Bob Carpenter, the TV voice for the last two seasons, a one year contract.
If I’m Carpenter, I’d say two years or nothing. Oh and at a significantly higher salary as well. This was handled very poorly by the front office and he [...]

Shapiro stumps for Carpenter; More on Young’s award

LEONARD SHAPIRO – Carpenter Deserves Recognition in Nats’ Booth – The PostShapiro thinks Bob Carpenter, flaws and all, got a raw deal from the Nationals, Stan Kasten and Don Sutton.
I spoke with Carpenter by telephone on Monday as he was driving across the country back to his home in Tulsa. He was probably going to [...]

Nats finish 73-89

PHILADELPHIA 6 Washington 1(CBS Sportsline Boxscore)
Phillies Soak Up the Scene – The Post
Nats learn how success feels – The Wash. Times
At the start of the season, I joked that I was an optimist when I said the Nats would go 62-99 (with a rainout) because I was an “optimist.” It turns out I was considerably [...]

Bob Carpenter dropping hints

Bob Carpenter was just thanking fans for their support over the last few weeks. He also noted that he talked to Stan Kasten on Friday and quoted Yogi Berra who said, “it ain’t over until it’s over.”
Interesting.
©MMX William F. Yurasko

Two Nats items from The Wash. Examiner

Ryan Zimmerman dictated a good column to Brian McNally today.
Also, Jim Williams is disappointed that Bob Carpenter isn’t coming back. If the following happnes, I’ll be really disappointed:
So what happens now? Well, Sutton could move to play-by-play and have studio analyst Ray Knight serve as the color analyst moving Don Baylor to a full time [...]

Nats fail; Kasten speaks, but does he say anything? Carpenter out

New York 8 WASHINGTON 4 (CBS Sports Boxscore)
Mets Get It Right Vs. Nats – The Post
Defeat doesn’t sour prospects for future – The Wash. Times
The Nats lost the third game of their series with the Mets 8-4, but the bigger news seems to be Stan Kasten’s luncheon with the media. Kasten was largely non-committal about [...]

Nats coaches return to old jobs

Nationals Reassign Two Coaches to Minors – The PostHitting coach Mitchell Page is now the roving minor league hitting instructor again and Randy Knorr heads back down I-95 to mange the P-Nats after replacing John Wetteland as bullpen coach.
In other news
The Phillies will offer Alfonso Soriano a lot of money (The Inky). I’m thrilled because [...]

Today’s Nats vs. Mets Grapefruit League game

I watched some of the Nationals game, a 10-2 rout over the Mets,this afternoon and thought I would share some observations:
Dutch! looked good, fielding well and making a habit of getting on base.
Wiki Gonzales had a strong outing as well.
The camera angles were not great
It was hard to remember much about Tom Paciorek as an [...]

An interesting weekend for the Nats

What a weekend for our Nationals! So many things happened with the biggest being MLB’s acceptance of the ballpark lease (The Post), with conditions of course, but surprisingly reasonable ones it would appear. The council needs to vote tomorrow to support the lease as is, and that is expected to happen; but as we all [...]

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