Category: washington nationals
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Well, That Hurt
There are times when I am not sure I am in sync with Tennyson’s “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”, at least to the extent one applies it to rooting for a sports team. For most of my life I either was a fan of a really lousy…
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What I Learned From My Birthday This Year
As many of you know my birthday was earlier this week. Most of the day of my birthday I spent working on responding to discussion posts and grading midterm papers for the graduate class I teach at the University of Maryland University College. During the day I talked to my two wonderful daughters. I spent…
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Federal News Countdown, the Nationals, and the Maryland Renaissance Festival
FEDERAL NEWS COUNTDOWN As many of you know (assuming that there is in fact a ‘you’, that is people who read this), I am fortunate to be asked back by the evidently non-discerning, but always interesting and entertaining, Francis Rose to be on his show the Federal News Countdown, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=155. I will be on tomorrow,…
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Last Day of Our Spring Training Pilgrimage
Saturday, March 16th, was our last day at the Nationals Spring Training in the Viera/Melbourne area. The game was on MASN and was scheduled for 6pm so we spent a mostly leisurely time during the day. Of course, leisurely for me meant working on grading participation in my UMUC class. We had lunch at one…
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Nationals Spring Training Pilgrimage – Two Days Down, Two To Go
It is always great fun coming to Nationals Spring Training. For those of you who have never done so, I would recommend it (either for the Nationals if that is your favorite baseball team, or for whichever team is). The weather is pretty nice, especially the further north you live, the pace is informal, the…
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Turning A Page
Last night I had the pleasure of going to a game lost by the Washington Nationals. And, of course, the reason was that in the middle of the 9th inning, we found out that the Pittsburgh Pirates had beaten the second place Atlanta Braves which meant the Nationals had won the National League East. I…
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My Wild and Crazy Week
Once a year, Ellen goes to New York for a book festival for almost a week, like this last week typically leaving Sunday morning and returning Thursday evening. I will note in passing that when Ellen goes to New York, she takes the bus; when I go, I take the train. One wonders what conclusions…
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Our Excellent Adventure in Florida with the Washington Nationals – Day 2
We started our day at the Viera Hampton Inn. As we remarked more than once during the day; free Internet, free breakfast, and baseball. It is hard to imagine a better combination. Before the game we were able to watch Chien-Ming Wang, a Nationals pitcher from Taiwan, who had crowds of Taiwanese press attending taking pictures…
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Our Excellent Adventure in Florida with the Washington Nationals – Day 1
Yesterday, Thursday morning, we started our second annual Spring training visit to see the Nationals. We were up at 5:15am to get ready to drive to the airport to fly to Florida. Starting with a temperature in the 20’s in Rockville MD, we landed to a temperature in the 70’s in West Palm Beach. We…