I, of course, have to bring this up.  I must admit, I didn’t see enough of the game for this man to annoy me- but apparently he annoyed a number of people.  During Monday nights Nationals/Braves game, a fan sitting just off home plate in the first row decided to stand and sit for every [...]

Stephen Strasburgh was big news last week- and merchandise vendors both home and on the road knew it.  Pittsburgh is finding out the same thing this week, with Pedro Alvarez arriving in Pittsburgh and the big leagues yesterday.  The team quite a few tickets once fans had heard Alvarez had been called up.  Additionally, according [...]

I wrote last week, at the beginning of Stras-mania, that the real boon for the Nationals is not just the 14 major league strikeouts Stephen Strasburg  tallied in his major league debut, its the effect of the buzz over those 14 K’s.
Strasburg will help the Nationals sell out the games he starts- and perhaps there [...]

This has been a good week for the Washington Nationals.  They drafted the stand-out player in the draft for the second straight year and their draft pick from the year before made his major league debut and was lights out.
What did Strasburg’s phenomenal start actually mean for the team?  Sure, it meant that on every [...]

Buster Posey started his first game at catcher last night for the San Francisco Giants.  He has been playing first for the last few weeks as he has acclimated to the big leagues.  Tonight, if you haven’t heard, Stephen Strasburg gets his first major league start tonight for the Nationals.  Both players are expected to [...]

The Nationals are the big news of the day, with sending Stephen Strasburg to the minors.  Of course this  has a big part for the sake of keeping him in the Nationals fold just a bit longer.  I mean why rush a kid to the big leagues and start his clock ticking if you do [...]