Posts Tagged ‘Mike Rizzo’

Redskins will be #1 team in D.C. for a long time; Nats & Caps currently jockeying for #2

Mike Rizzo: D.C. could become ‘primarily a baseball town’ – DC Sports Bog, The Post
I think that every professional sports team ought to be “aspirational” in everything they do. An example is trying to be the #1 team in a market. Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo seems to think so too:
“I think that [...]

UPDATED: Nats: Strasburg’s surgeon not consulted on shutdown story denied

Stephen Strasburg’s surgeon on Nationals shutdown: ‘I wasn’t asked’ – L.A. Times
UPDATE: The story has changed, or so they say. Here is the original report:
Remember that #strasburgopinons contest The Post did? Seems an important one was missed…
So, Washington Nationals general manager never consulted with Stephen Strasburg’s elbow surgeon, Lewis Yocum in making the shutdown decision?
OF [...]

Nats lose Marlins series, Strasburg shutdown, rookies hazed

We interrupt the beginning of the Redskins march to the Super Bowl to bring you the weekend that was for the Washington Nationals.
FRIDAY
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Stephen Strasburg, perhaps feeling the burden of the looming shutdown and overanalaysis of it, couldn’t get it done against the Miami Marlins again. The Nats came back though [...]

Day baseball! Nats-SF Giants rubber game at 3:45, a brief mention of Strasburg shtudown

Yay, we have day baseball today, after all those late nights. The Washington Nationals vs. San Francisco Giants on TV – MASN2 or if you are outside of the Nats footprint, MLB TV has it. Sadly, my office has neither station, so MLB Gameday Audio is how I’ll listen to it initially. Stephen Strasburg vs. [...]

Has Mike Rizzo called Joe Maddon “fake tough” yet? Gamesmanship overshadows Nats loss to the Rays

Sadly, I don’t have a lot of time to recap last night’s events (video) — Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson asks the umpires to check Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Joel Peralta’s glove for a foreign substance and sure enough there was. Peralta was tossed and Rays manager Joe Maddon started barking off the field about [...]

Nats: Ramos rescue, Phillies resistance, #1 farm system, E. Jackson signed, what of Lannan?

Lots of Washington Nationals news and comment as we slowly move closer to pitchers and catchers reporting. I wore a Nats cap today to work for the first time in a long while.
First off, Wilson Ramos kidnapping in Venezuela is detailed in this week’s Sports Illustrated.
Breaking this morning was the Nats plan to have a [...]

Davey Johnson back and says Nats are 2012 pennant contender

I predicted Davey Johnson would be the Washington Nationals manager as far back as 2006. I figured it would be for 2007 though. So, I was off by 4 years…
Johnson coming back was a foregone conclusion the moment he signed on after Jim Riggleman resigned. He’s talking big already — the 2012 pennant? Creating expectations [...]

Nats sign 2011 draft picks, Rendon, Meyer, Goodwin, Purke others

Nationals spend $16.5 million to sign draft picks, including Anthony Rendon, Matt Purke – The Post
Nats sign all top draft picks – CSN Washington
Nats beat the clock, sign top five draft picks – The Wash. Times
The Washington Nationals signed their top 13 draft picks by this morning’s draft deadline. The first four:
#6 Anthony [...]

Nats: Johnny Paycheck likes Jim Riggleman’s style; Nats win to go over .500

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Walking out of Nationals Park yesterday with my dad, I was pretty ecstatic. The Washington Nationals had just beaten the Seattle Mariners to improve their record to 38-37, the first time they had a winning record in the summertime since 2005. They did with 8 innings of shutout pitching by Jason Marquis [...]

Nyjer Morgan to Brewers; Nats get Cutter Dykstra

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 [...]

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