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December - 2007

12/31/07 'Aught-Seven...Washington Nationals: Season Three...
12/30/07 'Aught-Seven...Washington Nationals: Season Three...
12/30/07 On Lastings Milledge, Cherry Trees and Both Of Their Peak Blossoming Dates...
12/29/07 'Aught-Seven...Washington Nationals: Season Three...
12/28/07'Aught-Seven...Washington Nationals: Season Three...
12/27/07 The Nationals Are Willing To Take The Risks...The Rays?...Uh, Not So Much...
12/26/07 'Aught-Seven...Washington Nationals: Season Three...
12/25/07 On Christmas, We Think Again About Jesus...Flores.
12/24/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
12/23/07 The Washington Nationals New Year's Wish List...
12/22/07 Eric Byrnes On The Nationals...Sorry, That's "On" As In "Talking About"
12/21/07 This Day in Wash...Montreal Baseball History...
12/20/07 Ronnie Belliard and Cristian Guzman, Guzman and Felipe Lopez, Belliard and Lopez?...
12/20/07 Opening Night's National Nationals Broadcast...From Griffi...RF...Nationals Park?
12/19/07 Ronnie Belliard's Hit Wins Game For Tigers...Random Notes...
12/18/07 THE KIDS CALL HIM ZIM!!! The Hamate BONE!!! Or The Hook-Bone!!
12/17/07 Nick Johnson vs DY? Who's On First? Who's Slower? Who's More Fun To Watch Leg Out A Double?
12/16/07 The Committee To Keep Chad Cordero...The CTKCC-Or...How 'Bout Just The Cordero Committee?
12/15/07 Is Mark Prior A Good Fit For The Nationals?
12/14/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
12/13/07 Nationals Sign Four...According To Sources Familiar With The Signings Who Wrote Articles..
12/13/07 Our Long Nationals Nightmare Is Finally Over...
12/12/07 Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop...
12/12/07 Will The Nationals Have The Third-Worst Offense In '08? and NOT NOOK?
12/11/07 Lo Duca/Milledge vs Schneider/Church? Why Are The Nationals And Mets So Friendly?
12/10/07 Nationals Sign Veteran Backstop Paul Lo Duca.
12/9/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
12/8/07 Aaron "F^&%(!*" Boone!!!
12/7/07 Can the Nationals Save Elijah Dukes From Himself?
12/6/07 Who Knows Where Jesus Flores Will Play In '08? Really Knows?
12/5/07 What Will Jesus Flores Do In Venezuela, Nationals Seeking Veteran Backstop...
12/4/07 Winter Meetings. Charlie Steiner's Not Convinced. Nationals Deal Again. Thank You Detroit.
12/3/07 Nationals Acquire Elijah Dukes?...Milledge?...Pena?...Kearns?...
12/3/07 DC GM Jim Bowden Knows You Can Only Play 3 Outfielders Right? Nationals acquire Dukes.
12/2/07 Chris Marrero #31 and Ross Detwiler #37 on MiLB.com's Top 50 Prospect List.
12/1/07 Schneider and Church Traded For Milledge...What Are "They" Saying??

November - 2007

11/30/07 METS GM Omar Minaya on "The Fan" WFAN (660 AM) ...
11/30/07 TOP 5 Reasons YOU Can STILL Hate THE METS!! Reason #6...
11/30/07 SPY REPORT!! Nationals Trade Schneider and Church to Mets for Milledge!!!
11/29/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
11/29/07 Watch...As I Once Again Lie To Two Mets Fans...
11/28/07 Mike Bacsik, Mike Hinckley, and 17 Other Minor League Free Agents? Trade Brian Schneider?
11/27/07 Get To Know Your Nationals. Coaching Edition: Jerry Morales
11/26/07 Do Andre Dawson and Tim Raines Deserve to be Hall of Famers?
11/25/07 The Washington Nationals Top Prospects According to Baseball America...
11/24/07 Watch...As I Once Again Lie To A Mets Fan and Ask Who Has a Starting CF in the NL East?
11/23/07 Nationals' Center Field Options? One Less Than Yesterday...
11/22/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
11/21/07 Nationals Hot Stove Lukewarm At Best...Andruw Jones? Torii Hunter? Church Again?
11/20/07 Jimmy Rollins Proves SBN Writers Wrong, Himself Right. Wins NL MVP.
11/20/07 Get To Know Your Nationals. Coaching Edition: Rick Aponte
11/19/07 Washington Nationals Prospects In the Arizona Fall League...
11/18/07 The Washington Nationals Bullpen...Don't Trade Chad Cordero Just Yet, Please?
11/17/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
11/16/07 SBN Baseball Writers 4 for 4 in MLB Awards Season...
11/16/07 Nationals Trade Rumors. Ryan Church? Is Jim Bowden Asking For Too Much?
11/15/07 Who Wants To Start In Center for the Washington Nationals Now?
11/14/07 Get To Know Your Nationals. Coaching Edition: Tim Tolman
11/13/07 Washington Nationals Free Agent and Trade Talk...Andruw Jones? Chad Cordero Again?
11/13/07 Free Agents? Trade Possibilities? plus...SBN vs MLB Rookie of the Year Awards
11/12/07 Livan Hernandez, Bartolo Colon or Jason Jennings?
11/11/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
11/09/07 Washington Nationals Team President Stan Kasten "Meets" With Andruw Jones?
11/9/07 And the SBN AL MVP Award Goes To...
11/8/07 More HOT STOVE Stuff, Cordero to Mets? Why Do You All Hate...
11/07/07 And the SBN NL MVP Award Goes To...
11/6/07 And the SBN Cy Young Award Winners Are...
11/6/07 More HOT STOVE, Free Agents, Zimmerman?... and "Say It Ain't So, Jose?"
11/6/07 And the SBN Awards for NL and AL Managers Of The Year Go To...
11/5/07 And the SBN Awards for NL and AL Rookies Of The Year Go To...
11/5/07 Free Agents, Trade Possibilities, and SB Nation Awards Tomorrow...
11/4/07 Get To Know Your Nationals. Coaching Edition: Lenny Harris
11/3/07 Steel Yourselves Nationals Fans...
11/2/07 Get To Know Your Nationals. Coaching Edition: Pat Corrales
11/1/07 The Higher Education Of Jesus Flores.

October - 2007

10/31/07 Get To Know Your Nationals. Coaching Edition: Randy St. Claire
10/30/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
10/29/07 A-Rod At SS In DC...or...A.T.L.T At The WS...
10/28/07 The PROGRAM: And How To Get With It. A Glossary of Terms.
10/27/07 "Trader Jim's" Got Moves. An Ongoing Series...
10/26/07 Is This All Mike Rizzo's Doing?
10/25/07 Les Effets Prolonges Des Annees A Montreal.
10/24/07 This Day in Washington Baseball History...
10/24/07 A Tale Of Two Sources.
10/24/07 Nick Johnson.
10/23/07 TOP 5 Reasons YOU Can STILL Hate THE METS!! Reason #1...
10/22/07 TOP 5 Reasons YOU Can STILL Hate THE METS!! Reason #2...
10/21/07 TOP 5 Reasons YOU Can STILL Hate THE METS!! Reason #3...
10/21/07 2nd Annual "Chad Cordero's Brim Is As Flat As A..." Analogy Collection.
10/20/07 TOP 5 Reasons YOU Can STILL Hate THE METS!! Reason #4...
10/20/07 Quick Hits, Comings and Goings.
10/19/07 TOP 5 Reasons YOU Can STILL Hate THE METS!! Reason #5...
10/18/07 The 2008 Nationals Starting Rotation: Joel Hanrahan?...But First...
10/15/07 The 2008 Nationals Starting Rotation: John Lannan?
10/14/07 The 2008 Nationals Starting Rotation: Jason Bergmann?
10/14/07 The 2008 Nationals Starting Rotation: Matt Chico?
10/13/07 The 2008 Nationals Starting Rotation: Shawn Hill?
10/13/07 The Flat-Brimmed Closer vs The Tallest Pitcher In MLB History.
10/12/07 Journeymen Starters Part 3 Hollywood Mike Bacsik or The Man Who Threw Too Much.
10/11/07 Journeymen Starters Part 2: Don Sutton's Favorite Pitcher.
10/10/07 Journeymen Starters Part 1...plus "This Day In DC Baseball History."
10/10/07 The Curious Case of Cristian Guzman???
10/9/07 Q: What Do Kris Benson, Travis Lee, Braden Looper And Billy Koch Have in Common?
10/8/07 Did Ryan Church Just Have His Breakout Year?
10/7/07 Former Nationals In The News.
10/6/07 Zimmerman vs Wright.
10/5/07 What's Church Worth? Rube Vickers No-Hitter, and Thee "Bull" Durham...
10/4/07 Breaking NEWS! Nationals Aim To Lead League In Strikeouts. Or Do They?
10/3/07 Can You Name All 13 Washington Nationals 2007 Starters? (Without Googling?)
10/2/07 I Want Andruw Jones In Center In DC...The Mets Are Sorry...And DY Gets Recognized...
10/1/07 Jamey "All The Little Things" Carroll Makes All His Fans Proud...
10/1/07 OK...ALRIGHT...That's Long Enough...WHO ARE THE NATIONALS GONNA TRADE FOR TO MAKE A SPLASH?

September - 2007

9/30/07 Just Another Day On The Hill For Old Man Moyer And His Bag Of Slow Tricks.
Open Thread...9/30/07 Nationals vs Phillies Game 162 of 162
9/29/07 Mets Fans Assure Me, They've Always Liked Chico.
Open Thread...9/29/07 Nationals vs Phillies Game 2 of 3
9/28/07 I Think Cole Hamels Likes The Rally Towels...
Open Thread...9/28/07 Nationals vs Phillies Game 1 of 3
9/27/07 A Week In The Life Of "The Double Machine."
Federal Baseball Investigates: I Was An Undercover Mets Fan.
Open Thread...9/26/07 Nationals vs Mets Game 3 of 3
9/25/07 No Magic Here...
Open Thread...9/25/07 Nationals vs Mets Game 2 of 3
9/24/07 Slowhand vs The Mouthpiece...
Open Thread...9/23/07 Nationals vs Mets Game 1 of 3
9/23/07 Big Head Teddy Roosevelt Reports To Wrong Stadium, Does Not Win Presidents Race.
Open Thread...9/23/07 Phillies vs Nationals Game 4 of 4
Federal Baseball's Favorite Day In Nationals RFK History...6/18/06
9/22/07 Big Head Teddy Roosevelt Will Win His First Big Head Presidents Race Tomorrow, Really.
Open Thread...9/22/07 Phillies vs Nationals Game 3 of 4
9/21/07 "It Isn't That Hard To Get RBI's When You're Hitting Home Runs..." -Mike Schmidt
Open Thread...9/21/07 Phillies vs Nationals Game 2 of 4
9/20/07 The Washington Nationals...Spoiling Seasons, Casting Doubt...
Open Thread...9/20/07 Phillies vs Nationals Game 1 of 4
9/19/07 "While You Others Represent, I Present My Rep." -Posdnous
Open Thread...9/19/07 Mets vs Nationals Game 3 of 3 (SPOILER ALERT) (SPOILER ALERT)
9/18/07 "PULL THE STRING!! PULL THE STRING!!!" -Bela Lugosi
Open Thread...9/18/07 Mets vs Nationals Game 2 of 3 (SPOILER ALERT) (SPOILER ALERT)
9/17/07 David Wright??...MVP??...M-V-PLEASE.
Open Thread...9/17/07 Mets vs Nationals Game 1 of 3 (SPOILER ALERT) (SPOILER ALERT)
9/14/07 A Rainy Night In Georgia, Er Uh, DC...(Part 1 of 3)
9/15/07 Saturday Night Fever (Part 2 of 3)
9/16/07 The Sunday Matinee...(Part 3 of 3)
Open Thread...9/14- 9/16/07 Weekend Edition Braves vs Nationals...
9/12/07 9 Runs, 22 Hits, 16 Pitchers, 12 Innings, 4 Hours Nine Minutes...
Open Thread...9/12/07 Nationals vs Marlins Game 3 of 3
34 Hits, 21 Runs, 13 Pitchers, 3 Hours 25 Minutes Approximate Game Time...What Is This The AL ?
Open Thread... ... Nationals vs Marlins Game 2 of 3
9/10/07 Part Deux...Apres Le Deluge...
9/10/07 Avant Le Deluge...
Open Thread...9/10 Nationals vs Marlins Game 1 of 3
9/9/07 The Atlanta Braves Step On A Nail...
Open Thread...9/9 Nationals vs Braves Game 3 of 3
9/8/07 Ryan Zimmerman Fields And Throws... A) Wide B) Short C) High D) Just Right ?
Open Thread...9/8 Nationals vs Braves Game 2 of 3
9/7/07 The Major League Debut Of Ross Detwiler and Uh, Smoltz Almost Throws A No-No...
Open Thread...9/7 Nationals vs Braves Game 1 of 3
9/6/07 Travel Day Musings, Thoughts or Notes, Which Are All Really The Same Thing...Vol.3
9/5/07 The Flat-Brimmed Closer Strikes Again!!!
Open Thread...9/5 Marlins at Nationals Game 3 of 3
9/4/07 What Would Jesus Do ?
Open Thread...9/4 Marlins at Nationals Game 2 of 3
9/3/07 Goede Nacht en Goede Geluk.
Open Thread...9/3 Marlins at Nationals Game 1 of 3
9/2/07 And Now...Another Exciting Installment Of...THE KIDS CALL HIM ZIM!!!
Open Thread...9/2 Giants at Nationals Game 3 of 3
9/1/07 "Wave Of The Future...Wave Of The Future."-Howard Hughes in "The Aviator"
Open Thread...9/1 Giants at Nationals Game 2 of 3

August - 2007

8/31/07 "To Mike(Bacsik), God bless, Barry Bonds."
Open Thread...8/31 Giants at Nationals Game 1 of 3
8/31/07 Travel Day Musings, Thoughts or Notes, Which Are All Really The Same Thing...Vol.2
8/29/07 "No, We Don't Cheat. And Even If We Did, I'd Never Tell You." - Tommy Lasorda
Open Thread...8/29 Nationals vs Dodgers Game 3 of 3
8/29/07 "LA Is The Loneliest And Most Brutal Of American Cities," -Jack Kerouac
Open Thread...8/28 Nationals vs Dodgers Game 2 of 3
"I Just Came Here From Deep River, Ontario, And Now I'm In This Dream Place,"-Betty Elms
Open Thread...8/27 Nationals vs Dodgers Game 1 of 3
8/26/07 Another Young Nationals Hurler Hits The Proverbial Wall...
Open Thread...8/26 Nationals vs Rockies Game 3 of 3
8/25/07 I Hate Missing Games, I Really Do...
Open Thread...8/25 Nationals vs Rockies Game 2 of 3
8/24/07 I Drank Out Of The Stanley Cup This Morning, Oh And The Nationals Are In Colorado...
Open Thread...8/24 Nationals vs Rockies Game 1 of 3
8/23/07 The Long, Long, Long, First Inning Of Juan Gutierrez.
Open Thread...8/23 Nationals vs Astros Game 4 of 4
Walter "Big Train" Johnson (Washington Senator 1907-1932)
"My Dad Is The One Who Taught Me How To Give Up Long Home Runs,"- Mike Bacsik
Open Thread...8/22 Nationals vs Astros Game 3 of 4
They Called Him "Big Train!" The Votes Are In...and Federal Baseball Has Voted...
8/21/07 THE KIDS CALL HIM ZIM!! THE KIDS CALL HIM ZIM!!!
Open Thread...8/21 Nationals vs Astros Game 2 of 4
8/20/07 "Guess What?...The Alamo Was Built Without A Basement." -Pee Wee Herman
Open Thread...8/20 Nationals vs Astros Game 1 of 4
If God Hadn't Rested on Sunday, He Would Have Had Time To Finish The World. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8/18/06 "What Is This, The High Hat?" - Johnny Caspar
"With These Two Starters, You Can Measure The Pitch Speed With A Stopwatch."-Scout
8/17/07 A New National, And The Results Are In...
"THE FUTURE IS NOW. Start Building Yours At Hudsucker Industries. Low Pay. Long Hours."
Out With The Old, In With The Nuclear
8/15/07 "All the Way-Way, From Phil-Phil-Lay-Lay..." - Black Thought, of the Roots.
Don't You Hate Pants?

July - 2007

"We didn't have to trade anybody."
Double The Fat, Half The Cost
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Down The Highway, Down The Bend, Down The Road To (Something Less Than) Ecstasy (But Not Bad!)

June - 2007

DE-TROIT BASE-BALL!
How Many Frames Does It Take To Get To The Middle Of Ball Four?
Future Considerations
The Muddled Middle
The Advance Scout: June 5 - 7 vs. Pittsburgh
LEVALE! (Paid for by Speigner in '08)

May - 2007

Wipeout, Part Duh
Wipeout
The Advance Scout: May 29 - June 1 vs. L.A. Dodgers
Taking Stock
Eleven Out of Fifteen
The Advance Scout: May 25-27 @ St. Louis
Bat-sik Outlet Syndrome
Perfectly Cromulent?
The Advance Scout: May 21-24 @ Cincinnati
"What A Day For Nook Logan!"
Notice Pleading
The Advance Scout: May 18-20 vs. The [Baltimore] Orioles
Did You Know Bergmann's Hurt, Too?
Thoughts At The Quarter-Pole
Cy Bergmann
The Advance Scout: May 14-17 vs. Atlanta
How Could Something So Wrong Feel So Right?
(Glorious) Revolution
Breaking News: Nats Score Hundredth Run!
The Advance Scout: May 10-12 vs. Florida
Too Hot To Handle, Too Cold To Hold
The Advance Scout: May 7-9 @Milwaukee
Happy Anthony Young Day!
The Advance Scout: May 4-6 @ Cubs
I Can't Believe I Missed This!
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
Shape-Sifting

April - 2007

The Advance Scout: April 30 - May 2 @ San Diego
Introducing The Biographical Encyclopedia Of The Washington Nationals (2005 - Present)
How Long To Sing This Song?
The Advance Scout: April 27-29 vs. Mets
Your 2007 Washington Nationals . . . As Baseball Stars!
The Advance Scout: April 24-26 @ Philly
Acta On Church (And Church On Acta)
No, Not Obermueller!
First Guessing A Second Guess, Except It Was Really A Second Guess Of A First Cause?
Two Pitching Metrics (Including A Junk Stat -- At No Additional Cost!)
Oh Yes, You're In Deep D'Oh Now
Bravo
Pouring Sugar In The Gas Tank
Fabulous Prizes!
Tragedy
"Your job is going to be worse than mine because you're down south."
More Time To Put Off Doing Your Taxes
Oh, Hector!
The Line Between Bad, Unlucky, And Bad & Unlucky
Necessary Roughness
April 12, 9:32 pm
Two Pitches
Benign Neglect
Hey, It's Only Fair
One For The Nationals Archives
Happy Thoughts, Happy Thoughts, Happy Thoughts
Spicy Meatballls
Predicting, Predicting, Predicting
Third Annual Nats-Centric Baseball Prospectus Review

March - 2007

The Hundred-Loss Shuffle
One Paragraph on Comforting Math
One Paragraph on Center Field Vexation
To An Athlete Retiring Young
DATELINE, PEORIA: Jose Guillen Is Still Angry
One (Shorter) Paragraph, March 23
One Paragraph, March 22
All It Took Was Three Months
Major League General Managers as Die Hard Terrorists
Shakabuku
One More Cup of Coffee for the Road, Before I Go to the Valley Below
Bust A Move Down To Columbus? (No Young (in) DC?)
A Brief History Of My Thoughts On The Matter Of Pete Rose
A Potentially Perpetual Game of H-O-R-S-E
Around The Horn
That Deal's HOT!
Working On A Mystery
See ya, Yannigans
Guest Post: Errata, Erratic
Explaining By Authority
New Blogs!
Watch Bodes Break 'Em, With the Seven, Seventy-Seven
On Knowns, Unknowns, Reasonableness, and Hedging Bets

February - 2007

Undefeated. Still Undefeated!
Tim Redding: IDOIT
Around the Survivors, A Perimeter Create
Stats Geeks {HEART} Manny Acta
Oh
"Next on 'Inside the Canadian Football League, Western Division, Nightly'!!!!"
John Patterson: IDOIT
He Wept, For There Were No More Worlds to Conquer
Renewal
Never let them know that you know what they think you don't know that you know. You know?
Book Nook
Five Fun Facts About: Alex Escobar
Ryan Zimmerman, Buzz Machine
Bang! Zoom! Goes the Batting Stance

January - 2007

Five Fun Facts About: Austin Kearns
There Aren't Any Stewardesses
High Price, High Speed, High Post, High Roller
Logan's Run
Acta: O'Connor "not going to be ready to compete"
Rank Strangers to Me
Meet the Nats, Greet the Nats
But Commissar, These are Potatoes!
Loud and Proud
You're With Me, Leather
The Forgotten Man
Don Sutton to MASN
New Orleans (Triple-A) 2006 MLEs
Harrisburg (Double-A) 2006 MLEs
Potomac (High-A) 2006 MLEs
Savannah (Low-A) 2006 MLEs
Washington Organizational Minor League Equivalencies: Introduction
Taking shape, but still inchoate
Four links, no comments
Speaking of bloggers scoring interviews . . .
Cover Down, Break Through
Snitches get stitches
29.3 is the new 28.5
Nats looking at low-key pitching
My post is my cite
Bang! Zooooooommmmm! go the tired catchphrases!
I trusted you, inanimate titanium rod!
How do 81.6 wins sound?

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