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RAUCH READY TO JOIN ROTATION
[August 9th] -- He stands nearly seven feet tall. He has a fastball that tops out close to 95 mph. His slider and curve are both solid major league pitches. Batters have difficulty picking the ball up...
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PICTURE THIS: ORTIZ BEATS DONTRELLE WILLIS 5-2
[August 10th] -- RFK Stadium must be smack-dab in the middle of "Bizzaro World." How else can you explain a night when Ramon Ortiz not only beat Dontrelle Willis, but ended the game with nine wins, two...
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YUCK
[August 10th] -- It's becoming clear that wins for the Washington Nationals are going to become difficult to come by over the next couple of months. This is a team in transition, a team composed of...
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NATIONALS SHINING IN WORLD OF BLOGGING
[August 11th] -- It's taken the Washington Nationals nearly two years to leave behind those last vestages of the "dead-from-the-neck-up" era of the Montreal Expos. Now, finally, the team is acting...
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THAT WAS GREAT, NOW DO IT AGAIN NEXT TIME
[August 11th] -- Now, if Billy Traber can just do that another eight or so times this summer, the Nationals pitching woes will be lessened just a bit.Traber, a former Mets top prospect, pitched seven...
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REMEMBER THE MAINE!
[August 13th] - A century ago, the U.S.S. Maine sailed into Havana Harbor scaring the Spanish with it's "arms." Then, unexplicably, it blew up; no more Maine. Last night, John Maine came into RFK, and...
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FAMILY FEUD IN WASHINGTON
[August 15th] -- "Name the six best reasons that the Nationals are falling apart right in front of our eyes..... survey said!:"I had to take a couple of days off from the Nationals -- a pressure...
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NATS GRANT BRIEF RESPITE FROM LOSING, BEAT BRAVES 5-0
[August 15th] -- Well, that never happened before. Come to think of it, how'd it happen it the first place? Pedro Astacio, whose season can best be described as below average, dominated the Braves,...
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GREAT GAME, GREAT WIN
[August 16th] -- Ryan Zimmerman was beginning to fall into another slump. He's was 0-9 over his last two games and was striking out at an alarming pace. He hadn't had an RBI in ten days, and it had...
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REAL LIFE INTERVENTION FOR THE BELTWAY BOY
[August 18th] -- As my regular readers know, I am a senior in the College of Education at my local university. Usually, I can make time for both my classes as well as my beloved Nationals.That said,...
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I'M BACK, BUT NATS AREN'T
[August 25th] -- Tah dah! I'm officially a real-live student teacher, as my expensive-looking official teacher "name tag" indicates. I'll meet with my "cooperating teacher" on Friday and then, come...
View ArticleTIME CONSTRAINTS SUCK...
[August 28th] -- I know, I know. I promised that I'd be back blogging on a regular basis last week. What I should have said was that after the next couple of days, I'd be back to blogging on a regular...
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ZIM ZAM ZOOM IN ANOTHER DUD LOSS
[August 30th] -- The kid just keeps on keeping-on.Brian Schneider, after Ryan Zimmerman's big game against the Florida Marlins a few weeks back, said that he had stopped wondering when the "other...
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NOWHERE TO RUN, NOWHERE TO HIDE
[August 31st] -- Um, I'm not really sure I have anything to say about Wednesday's game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Should I write that Ramon Ortiz pitched one his better games in some time,...
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WHAT'S BIGGER NEWS: A NATS WIN OR WARD & ANDERSON GETTING TRADED?
[August 31st] -- A Nationals win in the month of August? Darn right that's breaking news, but so is the double-trade pulled off by Jim Bowden early Friday morning. The Nationals continue to aquire...
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WOULDA - SHOULDA - COULDA
[September 1st] -- Last December, I wrote a story that listed nine free agents that were 1) good enough to help the Nationals in 2006 and 2) cheap enough to sign. Some, like Ken Harvey and Wade Miller,...
View ArticleCOMEBACK KIDS X 4
[September 3rd] -- NOTE:Just as I was about to push the "new post" button last night, I saw a little notice on the right side of the page, an invitation, if you will, to try Blogger's new "beta"...
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OH NO, NO NO-NO! (BUT ORTIZ CAME CLOSE)
[September 4th] -- I don't understand how this happens. Last month, Pedro Astacio spun a two-hit complete game shutout after getting pummeled for most of the season. He continued getting pummeled...
View ArticleNATS LOSE, I GO TO CLASS
[September 5th] -- The Nationals fell to the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday, 2-0. Other than that, there's just not much to say, other than I'm off to be indoctrinated into the teaching profession by...
View ArticleTEMPORARY RE-ROUTE
[September 6th] -- For the time being, please click HERE to access the updated Beltway Boys website.Blogger.com"invited" me to move my blogs to their new beta version which offers, according to them,...
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