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December - 2006

Back to the Well
Cecil Travis RIP
Stanton's busy; better call Ray King
Washington Nationals Second Basemen Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed
Beyond the Merits
Jose, can you SEA?
An Interview With The Perm
Now, to check on the free range children . . .
Five Questions with Curly B
Historic?
Nothing to see, nothing to hear (well, next to nothing)
In Which Billy Ripken Sullies Jimmy Haynes' Good Name
Postcards from the Dolphin
Old ballplayers never die (but their memories sometimes lie)
Other thoughts on "The Plan"
Stream of consciousness
Wayne Krivsky gets litiggy with it
Guillen: Good as Gone
Meet the new LF, same as the old RF?

November - 2006

The Brisket is still real, and it's still spectacular
PLEDGE Your Allegiance? Pledge YOUR Allegiance? Pledge Your ALLEGIANCE?
Carney Lansford is My Daddy
A final Soriano mini-study
BREAKING NEWS: I AM ALFONSO SORIANO'S LONG LOST COUSIN
Beyond Fonzie and concession stands: This is caring for a fanbase
Ramon Ortiz shut out in Cy Young vote
Second comes right after first
We have confirmation (really)
Trade for Hire Manny!!111!!!
"Take a ride on the Redding" (OR, "But I wanted Jackie Rexrode!")

October - 2006

Dateline: Elias Sports Bureau
Southern comfort
Red, Buff & Blue
Next Question: Is Bud a "Unitary Executive?"
"Rumors from a guy . . . "
Girardi: "Thanks but . . . no thanks"
Compensate THIS!
Fists with your toes
Tomorrow night, I'll be hanging out with Mark Cuban
8 Men, 1 Champion!
HIT IT HERE THERE
gnihctiP, gnihctiP, gnihctiP
"Simply wretched" (or, "Hey everybody, it's been great!")
Waxing and waning

September - 2006

Aw, they were about to show a close-up of the rod
Triple-Double
I suspect The Bird was freed . . .
THE GREATEST HERO IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Relatively arbitrary or arbitrarily relative?
Vacuous
Adjusting for dorkcosity . . .
Hey, a win!
Tonight's Game
Big Announcement
Dorta to Logan to D'oh!
SEND MONEY!
Winning is fundamental!
Word choice, man---word choice!
Nook-Yoo-Ler. It's pronounced Nook-Yoo-Ler.
Enjoy the playoffs, Marlon

August - 2006

Have charts, will bore
If I knew how to do the PhotoShop gimmick . . .
Where betting is the allure and teh 'roids are rampant (but it's not cool to assail them for it)
If the Nats had an off day, would they make a sound?
Just average? Or hardly average?
General Grievance
About those draft picks . . .
More from the 1988 Inside Sports Preview
Hey ROY?
Bungler of baseballs, foiler of fandom, assassin of avidity
Stan the Plan? (Part IV: Memory Lane)
Our new ace!
The Long Road to . . . Somewhere . . . Hopefully
Fireworks, of the non-Slowes variety
Answer this for me
Best Friends Forever!
It really is the Grays
ENOUGH WITH THE THREE-BALL COUNTS!!!111!!!!
"Labrum? Fiddlesticks, no. I said 'Dabrum.' As in ancient Sumeria."
See ya, ÂˇLivan!
(Dramatization; events may not have occurred.)
Long-Forgotten or Never-Remembered Moments in Washington Baseball History, Vol. IV (8/6/05)
As Tom Paciorek would say, "Whoa."
Stan the Plan? (Part III: 1988-89)
Nuthin'
I don't know what this has to do with anything, but . . .

July - 2006

Positive Inaction?
Soriano on "Nationals On-Deck"
Fifty-seven additional games in this uniform . . .
Executive Decision
SORIANO UPDATE
BREAKING NEWS: BOWDEN PULLS THE TRIGGER!!!111!!!
One knee equals two feet, two sweeps equal six wins
"Wasted his substance with riotous living"
Now, about that formatting . . .
Stan the Plan? (Part II)
Reportedly almost extremely close to nearly deciding to perhaps go ahead and consider whether
Break it down
What the hell is going on in Chicago???!!!
Rueckel Report: Return to Harrisburg Edition
Tom Emanski's Abject Horror
Renting a freakin' sweet tux
Another mulligan!
Mulligan!
You only live twice
Fountains of Wayne
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Numbed by Numbers, Part II
Offensive numbers follow-up
Numbed By Numbers, Part I (The Phantom Offense?)
Midseason Thoughts, or IN DEFENSE OF THE RED ROOF INN GUY
Jose, can you say that you stink on wheat?
Tony T. speaks (again)
Alan Wiggins: Drugs. Steve Garvey: Sex. Brian Giles: Rock 'n Roll?
Is Alfonso's Love in Vain?
Quick Hits (alternatively: I'm busy; sub-alternatively: I'm lazy)
Whoa. That deal's HOT!
These aren't your father's Marlins
Soriano: All-Star Starter
NATS SIGN ESMAILYN GONZALEZ!!!
Walk-Off
Kasten: "Bowden, Bowden, Bowden."

June - 2006

Englund signs, Bowden stays, D-Rays Bays
Nadir
You can go home again
BREAKING NEWS: BROWNING WALKS
Freewriting
Rueckel Report: Welcome Back (to Metairie) Edition
What's up with the 7:07 start time?
Federal Register, June 26
Hot Not Rod
Federal Register, June 22
Operation: Pester Lester
Federal Register, June 21
The enthusiasm is compelling, but . . .
GO HOME, YANKEES!!!111!!!
"W" with extra curl
Robinson's Revenge?
Federal Register, June 16
Somebody get me Eddie O'Brien, stat!!!!
Temporary Like Achilles?
The Velvet Fogg?
Federal Register, June 12
"...Just like what's his name...you know, the guy...he always wore the shirt?"
May 18, 2006: a day that will live in infamy?
Davey Johnson? "Low guy on the totem pole"? No way.
Black Wednesday (mo(u)rning)
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies, Miss Scarlett
Confessions of a one-track mind
Federal Register, June 5
Just pretenders, our Dayton is gone
Coopertition

May - 2006

Operation: Alfonso
Federal Register, May 30
In which three becomes four?
5-8-0-1
Twelve point five disjointed thoughts
Federal Register, May 24
Via Certified Mail
"Ask the question!"
If the Nats host the Astros, then . . .
Stoopid
Sinner in the hands of a flailing team
Thank you, Neifi
Long-Forgotten or Never-Remembered Moments in Washington Baseball History, Vol. III (9/10/71)
Fielding Bible, Part 2: Jose Vidro
Stan the Plan? (Part I)
Federal Register, May 17
Grave-robbing
Subterranean Homesick Blues?
Federal Register, May 15
Circle of life
Desolation Row
Prediction (alternate title: Peter Graves would do better)
Federal Register, May 12
Times are changin', everyday . . . {insert rest of "227" theme song}
Amazing discovery
We could watch the team! . . . We could watch THIS team?
Privity? Or fresh start?
Federal Register, May 10
Fielding Bible, Part 1: Royce Clayton
Now, why does that name sound familiar?
Around the horn (note: actual baseball content)
Everything you ever wanted to know about MASN/Comcast but were afraid to ask . . .
Kasten Chat
The Sportswriter's Guide to the Galaxy
Something's got to give (but nobody might care)
He's only 31, huh?
Plenty of denouement, little to say
Faster than a speeding plate techtonic!
Unscripted
Be(at)ing John Maine
8-18
So . . . Lerner

April - 2006

Picked up for a second season
To Day is the . . . .{greatest}?
Sir, we've analyzed their attack, and there is a danger
'Roids Update
Talking Head
Fear the River Horse
HaberGate
Oh . . . [darn]
Typology
Tonight's game
On Soriano
All the marbles, appraised
BREAKING NEWS: NATS TO SMULYAN
Tipping point?
Philly . . . okay?*
MAS'ed up
The problem of strain
Be anxious about nothing . . .
Lucky thirteen
Jackie Robinson Day
Physician, heal thyself us
¡NO MAS!
Erasing the league
Back to the old airplane field
ordeP lliK
"It is a long, long season."
The Home Opener
I refuse to make the "Magic Wandy" pun
Today's Special
Pettitte opportunity
He murdered that one!
Take me to your leader
TA2: Judgment Day
Dateline: Konami Development Meeting
Pedro vs. "New Pedro"
The Franco-Dutch All-Star Team
Silent Lucidity? Not Quite!
We can walk on coals / Have ninjas fight us / Just don't get gingivitis
Federal Register, April 4
Give it away now
Today's the day
Long-Forgotten or Never-Remembered Moments in Washington Baseball History, Vol. II (4/9/62)
Predictions
Give us our wings
Federal Baseball interview: Bud Selig

March - 2006

Second annual Nats-centric Baseball Prospectus review
Four-and-a-half gun salute
A regular old Horatio Alger story
Bowden interview with ESPN Radio
And now for something a bit more serious . . .
Scratches head . . . {throws chair}
(Com)casting aspersions
PROGNATSTICATIONS: iLIVAN!, John, and pray for a drenched lawn
This (Other) Side of Paradise
There's a party line and the neighbor's got an itchy trigger finger?
Guest Author: Assessing the Lineup(s)
Building magic
Se7en?
Interesting Baseball Movie
Federal Baseball World Domination Tour, 2006
If I ain't startin', I ain't departin'
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Alfonso Soriano
WBC, or merely not to be?
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Damian Jackson
Statistical (in)significance, Part II
"A Red-Letter Day"
Statistical (in)significance
Here's the ballpark, guys
Equity delights to do justice, and not by halves
OT: Peter Tomarken (1943-2006)
Insert Picture of Ballpark Here
The River Styx
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Marlon Anderson
Profiles in Courage
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Brian Schneider
Seligulus Rex? Or A. "Bud" Selig, CEO?
So one-half-inch of plexiglass separated me from Mike Modano . . .
Forgot to shut off the iron . . .
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Matthew Lecroy
Kia-thon '06!

February - 2006

PROGNATSTICATIONS: Ryan Church
Pitching, pitching, pitching
And my best friend, my doctor, won't even say what it is I got
Play Ball!
Lawrence of Labrumia?
Operation: Frank Robinson Biography
Dave's internal monologue: "I want to blog!"
What's in the box?!
R.I.P., Curt Gowdy
Five for the three, five for the three, we need proof before belief
Here's to you, Mr. Robinson
Stray memory
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Jose Guillen
November, 2001
Captain Chaste, fare thee well
Washington Nationals Week in Review
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Ryan Zimmerman
There's . . . too . . . many . . . of them
Poor, poor Organized Baseball
The Federalist Recommends . . .
The Federalist Recommends . . .
Pass swipes
Prioritizing
Jose: hale and hearty?
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Cristian Guzman

January - 2006

Federalist Book Club: Zimbalist
No surprise here
Long-Forgotten or Never-Remembered Moments in Washington Baseball History, Volume I (7/19/59)
Around the Nat(m)osphere in 90 Seconds
Four to Thank
In medias res
PROGNATSTICATONS: Jose Vidro
Lowball, Trashy & The Gang
Come again?
PROGNATSTICATIONS: Nick Johnson
Where are they now? Adam Eidinger
Sammy Sosa: "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
Self-congratulatory, self-indulgent blurge
Big Dumb Rex
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
All Schneider, all the time!
Speaking of Schneider . . .
Schneider: One Cut at a Time
Common courtesy: pass it on! (or pass the buck)
We repeat the rumors that have already been "reported"; you decide
Death by checkbook?
I'm the plonic sonic
It's a shame about Ray
I'll take the box. The box!
Today was a good day, didn't even have to trade my Bill Bray
Democracy NOW!
Why Tucker? Why now? Why? Why?
Can't get enough of Arbutus
Patterson Avenue
Dawson
Point/Counterpoint
Ownership change expected Jan. 19!
It's better than Leprechaun, I assure you
An outfielder? A fast outfielder? Never!
Svrluga killed the radio star . . .
It's a Natsmas Miracle! (PART TWO)

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