The Bull-Moose Juju
April 25, 2013 by Ted Leavengood · 2 Comments
As the first month of the baseball season drew to a close in 2012, the Gio Gonzalez trade looked like an inspiration. Stephen Strasburg was back and the Nationals had the best pitching in the National League. Davey Johnson was looking for offense and summoned Bryce Harper. Everything Mike Rizzo touched in 2012 turned to […]
Toeing The Rubber/Riding The Pine: 4/22/2013
April 22, 2013 by Chris Mitchell · Leave a Comment
Toeing The Rubber/Riding The Pine Week four is a wrap around week in fantasy baseball. Most aces from week #1 have their second two start weeks of the season this week so pitchers like David Price and Felix Hernandez have two starts with one very notable exception, Justin Verlander. Adding to the aces in this […]
It’s Always ‘Springtime’ in DC
April 16, 2012 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
The flowers remain in full bloom; the weather as gorgeous as a quad full of coeds; and the Nationals took three of four from a good Cincinnati team to move their record to 7-3. There was a billboard near the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta for many years that read, “It’s Always Springtime at Bulldog […]
Another Brick in the Wall
June 2, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
Is Strasburg’s looming debut next Tuesday more important for the future of the Nationals, or Roy Oswalt’s admission on Tuesday of this week, that he would accept a trade to Washington? The two are inextricably linked. Â Oswalt’s view that there are good things going on in Washington redounds to the excitement Strasburg is generating, but […]
Washington Snowmen Add Wang
February 16, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
The almost three feet of snow in front of the house is melting, but during the white out conditions last week the Nationals fought through it all to sign Chien-Ming Wang. Â Were the Nationals snow-blinded to the big risks of signing Wang? Â There is little chance they are getting the pitcher who won nineteen games […]
