Entries Tagged as ‘Nationals’

June 8, 2008

OMG Hil is SO Pressed for Barack

Picking a vice presidential candidate is a lot like choosing a prom date.  Politics would be a lot more fun if politicians had IM and  we could read their transcripts… (On a related note, at the AIPAC Conference this past week, Clinton and Obama apparently walked past one another in the hallway, but didn’t speak.  [...]

April 3, 2008

WSJ, Legos, Baseball, and Other Assorted Goodies

Joel scours the Wall Street Journal for me, here’s a good one he found about Boston College’s commencement speaker:
Tortured Logic
Alex found this cool website with how skewed an article is (fun for both sides of the political spectrum).
Andrea sent me this blog post with different baseball stadiums made out of Legos!

Also, my Nationals are [...]

March 31, 2008

Monday Mess

First, what I’d like to call the Switcheroo, the New York press covering the D.C. region, and the D.C. press covering the NY region:
Times article on Smith Island cake. I just wish it came with an audio of the great accents (and maybe a taste of cake…).
A Post article on the abundance of (white) [...]

March 30, 2008

Emily’s Selections From the Sunday Times

And I’m going to try to tie them all together. Wish me luck.
First, You Can’t Just Blow Up History about the future destruction of both Shea and Yankee Stadiums. From the special baseball section in today’s Times. Once again, HAPPY OPENING DAY! GO NATS!

I missed the Nationals’ first season (2005) Opening Day [...]

March 30, 2008

Happy Opening Day!

The Nationals’ new ballpark is finally open! I am so excited, I can barely contain myself! And, even though, I’m in New Jersey, the game is on ESPN tonight, so I can at least watch my boys play.
Here’s the Post article about how things went yesterday for the pre-season game versus Baltimore:
Fans Carried [...]

March 23, 2008

Sunday Sports

Another good article from today’s WaPoMag, about a fan who is thrilled to have baseball back in D.C., although it took a while for him to get really excited about it. (I for one, am thrilled. Too bad I didn’t actually get tickets for opening weekend.)
Also, the worst clock cheating of the 21st [...]

March 6, 2008

Sad Because I Didn’t Get Opening Day Tickets

But apparently no one else did.
Opening Day Tickets Go Fast