Wednesday night in Vegas, last real day of the Winter Meetings, and everyone realizes that they better actually get some work done or their bosses might not let them go to the work conference next year. For the Nats, this … Continue reading →

Here’s your all-purpose trade or fade headquarters for the Weenter Meetings. I rarely venture out into that unnatural meteorological aberration meself, being a tropical creature and all that, but there are presumably great doings being planned, executed and abandoned out … Continue reading →

Why does the Baseball Hall of Fame feel somehow lessened right now?  I know that there are the “small hall” people, those who think that induction should be reserved for the best of the best, and I understand where they … Continue reading →

Nats GM Mike Rizzo has been busy this off-season, seemingly working to build a team that wouldn’t include Bryce Harper after Harper turned down the Nats’ 10yr/300M offer at the end of the regular season. That’s to be expected, because … Continue reading →

If sitting in front of the hot stove all day is making you as drowsy as it is making me, here is a little distraction to while away some time as you wait for the earth-shattering news about who has … Continue reading →

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After being convicted by the Q Continuum of having become “Barbarically Boring” and threatened with a denial of past, present and future existence MLB makes a bold move.

The Orioles ask the league for permission to put Chris Davis to death. Twins consider making similar request for Miguel Sano.
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There are rumblings late on this last day of November that the Nats and Cleveland are at advanced stages of trade talks that will yield Yan Gomes for the Nats, with no word yet on what other pieces might be … Continue reading →

So the Barves just went out and made the first move on a big name free agent for this offseason, signing Josh Donaldson — The Bringer of Rain — to a one-year, $23 million make-good contract.  I suspect that our … Continue reading →

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As I do every year, I am dedicating our Thanksgiving to the memory of the twenty million or so Native Americans who were shot, starved, exiled, sickened, betrayed and herded into near-extinction while over a roughly 300 year period we … Continue reading →

BREAKING – Catcher Kurt Suzuki is returning to the #Nats on a two-year deal, pending a physical. https://t.co/v9McinK7vl pic.twitter.com/cZUZ0n1blu — Nationals on MASN (@masnNationals) November 19, 2018 The catcher’s spot in the Nats’ batting order has been a black hole … Continue reading →