I’ve seriously considered an internet intervention for myself recently as the Stephen Strasburg hype built to volcanic proportions leading up to this afternoon’s highly anticipated first start in spring training. I even found myself getting (*gasp*) sick of only hearing “Strasburg, Strasburg, Strasburg!” nonstop. Cue Brady Bunch, “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!” – that is if you’re [...]

In the wake of the slashing of the Washington Times sports department, many fans have been curious where beat writers Mark Zuckerman and Ben Goessling would end up. Mark Zuckerman has gone solo on Nats Insider and raised enough funding from fans to support him throughout spring training. Ben Goessling was hired by MASN and [...]

My bags aren’t packed, I’m not ready to go (yet)… I finally made my spring training plans and am ready short of reserving the rental car and getting a photo credential (Is anybody out there? –Pink Floyd). Once I get those tasks done, all I have to do is sit and wait until March 18th arrives [...]

That’s the question on many fans’ minds as spring training gets under way and reports trickle in of Strasburg’s bullpen sessions. I was all geared up to post that he was of course starting the season with the Potomac Nationals in Woodbridge — until I went to look up the $15-Million Plan details on their [...]

Ah, pitchers and catchers have finally reported to Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Florida. While I’m not there (yet), I got a kick out of the Nats spring training photo gallery on the Washington Post website. No gratuitous breast shots involved. Just plain old familiar warmups, bullpen reps and field drills. There’s a great shot [...]

Hat tip to Lookout Landing, this video has been amazing Tweeps nationwide since yesterday, particularly Nats fans still disgruntled with former Nats GM Jim Bowden. I finally got around to watching it this morning. Stay tuned to the very end. I literally yelled, “Oh my gawd!” The lusty, “Chicks dig sabermetrics” bit by Bowden’s fiance was [...]

Hope you’re free tomorrow, then! Yes, yes, I really was in a commercial last season. No, you didn’t see it? ;-) While spring training is gearing up, a casting company is looking for this season’s fans to star in MASN ads again. Auditions are tomorrow and you really do get paid. Copy and paste below: The [...]

Thanks to the MASN setup in conference room 6 on the 3rd floor, I have a new avatar for Facebook and Twitter! Heck, I may even redesign this blog around it. What do you think? Other than that and the Kids Zone, we didn’t see much. I saw Kasten doing a Q&A over the TVs [...]

New Nat, Jason Marquis, as you can plainly see! I spent much of yesterday trying to put names to new Nats faces and commit them to memory so I wouldn’t goof up any of the photo captions. As you can see, Jason Marquis was quite obliging in that regard! Prior to an autograph signing and photo [...]

Cue “The Boys Are Back In Town” Nyjer Morgan and pediatric patient at Children’s National Medical Center Well, ok, the boys have been in town for several days, but yesterday was the first day of the winter caravan that allowed me to catch up to them on a snowy traffic-halting day. The first stop on the [...]

One of my proudest “memorabilia” items hanging in my cubicle at work is the front page of our competitor’s sports section featuring a photo of me and my “associates” (hee!) at a blogger day at Nationals Park this past season. Or I guess I should say former competitor. The Washington Times put its last sports [...]