(AP Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta. Just another road loss for the Nats.)
"We battled hard today. When we play a team of that category, we have to play perfect baseball."
(Manny Acta, via Washington Times, 6/25/2009)
More home cookin' for the Sox in D.C.
Red Sox 6, Nationals 4: Craig Stammen perfect through three, but the problem is they play nine. Ortiz, Varitek, make Stammen, Nats, pay big for mistakes.
Game of inches: Zim misses game tying HR in 7th by thismuch. Elijah Dukes nearly kills Nick Green with broken bat.
Another record crowd at Nationals Park: 41,029 Red Sox fans, 501 Nats fans. Amazingly, the 10 millionth fan in Nationals history wasn't a Red Sox fan.
Cheer up, NatsTown, the good news is that old washed up John Smoltz goes tonight for the home teamSox.
Adam Dunn isn't worried about his wrist, but Nats fans should be.
Scott Olsen is ready to return. Who'll be boarding the bus to Syracuse?
Farewell, Kip Wells. What took so long?
Beardtalk with Joe Beimel, courtesy of DC Sports Bog: "I feel like I'm wearing a ski mask out there it's so hot..."
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Wondering if it will be a Boston three party this evening...excuse the awful play on words.
I've sat next to the "10 millionth fan" before, and he is a tool (precisely a year ago today actually against the Angels, when he was the 9,621,077th fan). With about 10 open seats in the row, my friends and I accidently sat -- get this -- two seats away. Evidently, he had purchased these season tickets so he would have space for his jacket and other items(his parents were on the other side of him, and I don't buy that in their abscence he'd have 4 other friends). He immediately starting whining and threated to call an usher if we didnt move a seat down to our proper location. Welcome to NatsTown!
You'll find me at the Red Loft tonight. J.Z., please bring us one.
Posted by: Big Oil | June 25, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Love the awful play on words, Big Oil. Nothing makes our day like a bad pun - check our post headlines daily for proof.
In fact, if it ends up a sweep tonight, we might consider using it tomorrow. Stay tuned. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
(sorry to hear Mr. 10 Million is a whiner)
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | June 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Not to worry -- glad I came across the website. You guys reflect very accurately the sentiment of most loyal nationals fans, namely, expect the worst, and attempt to get some humor out of it.
Posted by: Big Oil | June 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM