Mike James
As an Expos fan in 2004, I had two choices -- continue to follow the team and its players after relocation or find some other club to cheer for. Seemed like a no-brainer to me, and I traded in my blue Montreal hat for a Curly W. I've been involved with baseball for a long time, as a youth player, a newspaper beat writer, a minor league PR director, an official scorer, a ballpark usher and now a youth team coach. I live outside of Las Vegas with my wife and my two children -- both of whom wear eye black streaking down their cheeks.
Get em on, get em over, get em in.
It seems incomprehensible that the team with the best record in baseball is having trouble fulfilling all three tenets of this saying, and yet here, we are, after three…Read More
It was a day late, but the St. Louis Cardinals finally showed a post-season audience one of baseball’s best offenses.
Just a day after being held to three hits, the Cardinals busted out big time…Read More
Wins awarded to relief pitchers are often the byproduct of being in the right place in the right time, and sometimes even come about as a result of the reliever being bailed out of his own mess by his…Read More
Washington manager Davey Johnson insisted earlier this week that getting Edwin Jackson his tenth win of the season was more important to his club than securing the National League’s top seed heading…Read More
Every time you read that dang story, it always ends the same. The fast-starting hare loses the race to the slow and steady tortoise. For the Washington Nationals Wednesday night, it was almost a similar…Read More
And more..
The playoffs will have to wait at least one more day.
Needing a doubleheader sweep of the Los Angeles…Read More
The Washington Nationals have been doing their best impression of the 1927 Yankees for the last couple…Read More
In a season the Washington Nationals hope to fill with milestones, few in the regular season will match…Read More
Whatever factors have contributed to the Philadelphia Phillies tumbling suddenly into mediocrity this…Read More
The way the Washington Nationals have been playing lately, it takes something special to beat them.
Jonathon…Read More
While the world outside of the Beltway hems and haws about Stephen Strasburg and his innings limit, one…Read More
When Davey Johnson categorized his team’s hitting approach as “patiently aggressive”…Read More
Vampires. Cockroaches. The Washington Nationals.
Things that just won’t die.
Facing a rocky outing…Read More
Looks like Stephen Strasburg figured out who he is.
Five days removed from a shaky start that prompted…Read More
The All-Star Break has traditionally been a time for players and fans alike to catch their collective…Read More
If the Washington Nationals were looking to leave their fans with a positive impression over the upcoming…Read More
Scoring 10 runs without ever leading a game is hard enough. Walking off the field beaten after more than…Read More
Before Bryce Harper was a 19-year-old major league rookie playing with much more seasoned competition,…Read More
More is generally better. But for Washington Nationals fans, more baseball was decidedly worse on Saturday,…Read More
All eyes in Fenway Park on Saturday may have been on Daisuke Matsuzaka, but it was his mound opponent…Read More