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Strasburg start number 2, will it match his debut?

terpfan1980 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:14:16 PM -0400

We're not too far from Stephen Strasburg's second major league start. The question is will he come close to matching his debut or will start number two show even a hint of mortality? Sadly, the Nationals are now looking to their young phenom to become a stopper as they've laid big, stinky, eggs in the last two games. Hopefully Strasburg can get it done today.

I hate it when that happens...

terpfan1980 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:50:26 AM -0400

So my favored team went out on the road to visit a team that they should have easily beaten, but of course they were instead beaten themselves. Partly thanks to a former player of their own team who seems to be experiencing some sort of resurgence this season :/ I hate it when that happens! I should say that I do feel somewhat happy that the guy is reviving his career and apparently is getting heatlhy enough to play well this season, I just wish he wouldn't have his best days against...

Let the Strasburg era begin!

terpfan1980 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 8:30:33 AM -0400

Only a few more hours, but I will be there watching it all unfold. Now I just have to pray that the kid lives up to the hype. Please. Seriously. Please.

Remembering Ernie Harwell

jdkeepsmiling — Mon, 10 May 2010 1:37:52 PM -0400

Ernie Harwell, the "Voice of Summer" passed away last week. For any of my readers from the Detroit area, this was a monumental loss. Ernie had called games for the Tigers for over 40 years on the radio. Three generations of us had grown up listening to him tell us what city the person who caught the foul ball was from. He was, and will forever be a part of this city and state. When I was younger, we did not have cable TV, so there were not many opportunities to watch the Tigers ...

Goodbye Ernie Harwell

terpfan1980 — Tue, 04 May 2010 7:41:16 AM -0400

Sorry to hear of the passing of Ernie Harwell today. A class act and a voice that was baseball to many fans. Goodbye Mr. Harwell.

A-Rod dirty? Oh, no! Say it ain't so

terpfan1980 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 6:52:37 PM -0500

The news of the last few days, that which says that Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez tested positive for anabolic steroid use when he was playing for the Texas Rangers. I wish I could say it's unbelievable, but nothing about steroids and baseball surprises me any more. Sadly, the game as I knew it back when I was much younger is long gone. The days of magical numbers like '61' and '755' were left behind a long time ago, thanks to hulking steroid laden bodies on players such as Mark McGwir...

Starting Pitchers

stevendedalus — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 1:29:56 PM -0500

Starting Pitchers I believe it is time for the starting pitchers to form their own union in order to demand respect. Pitch counts should stop being the mantra for disallowing a pitcher from finishing a game which he obviously has under control. Further, he should be able to argue with the manager who is in the process of giving him the hook. The union should be titled the Dangerfield Union.

Modifying The DH Rule

stevendedalus — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 7:06:50 AM -0400

DH as we know it—"Old timers day every day"— should be done away, but managers in both leagues should be allowed one pinch hitter AB without having to remove the pitcher, or a slumping batter. To add to the strategy, such a designated pinch hitter forgoes this strategy except for traditional pinch hitting duty the next two games. The manager, however, is allowed this option in every game provided it is a different bench player. This compromise should make it accept...

Nationals Park opening, take 0

terpfan1980 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 1:24:38 PM -0400

Tonite was the first 'official' MLB game at the new Nationals Park in Washington D.C.

Nationals Park

Just about two weeks to go...

terpfan1980 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 9:29:36 AM -0400

Just about two weeks until another opening day and the return of optimism that will come with same.

Baseball Season is Coming...

jdkeepsmiling — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 9:06:21 AM -0500

I know that the only baseball story that anyone out there seems to care about right now is the Roger Clemens thing. But, I, being a proud Detroiter, am more entranced by the amazing team that has been put together for my watching pleasure this year. Letme go back a few years though, back when the Tigers were the worst teamin baseball. I was still a loyal fan, and went to 5 or 6 games a year,and even watched them on TV, as Bobby Higginson struck out and NateCornejo racked up a huge E...

Curse you and your MASN network Peter the Greed

terpfan1980 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 1:09:39 PM -0500

Apparently Peter the Greed (Angelos) is continuing his cheap ways and leaving his MASN sports channel without high definition equipment for the coming year which means that viewers of the Nationals or the Orioles will be watching standard definition programming this season. Pop quiz - who are the only teams that will be broadcast in standard definition this season? Ooops, I seem to have given that information away in the opening paragraph there. It's not bad enough that Peter Angelos ha...

MLB keeps their Bud for another 3 years...

terpfan1980 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 6:01:19 PM -0500

MLB has given Bud Selig a 3-year contract extension. God they must love incompetence in general {blink, blink} Aw, I should be more fair here. I don't want to insult the incompetent among us but putting Selig into that category. {evil grin} 3 more years of potential labor problems, 3 more years of a lack of balance among teams. Yeah, just what MLB needs {frown}

Why you should give a crap about Steroids in baseball

terpfan1980 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 7:40:36 PM -0500

My response to a recent article that raised the question: Who gives a crap about steroids in baseball? Let me try to hit this one out of the park for you.... Your son/brother/nephew/uncle/father is an up-and-coming ball player. He is good. Very good. Good enough to get interest from professional teams, and get signed to go play in the minor leagues. He seems like someone that could be headed to the major leagues and the big money, fortune, and fame of same. ...

Were you on the list?

terpfan1980 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 7:52:09 AM -0500

Were you on the list? (borrowing and using a piece of a tag-line from last season's Heroes TV show for my own purposes here...) Heck, you might as well have been on the list, with the Mitchell Report naming some 70+ names, and talking about the decades of performance enhancing drugs that have permeated Major League Baseball over the last 20 years (give or take). It really is a sad state of affairs. Fans (such as me) ate up the record chases until we started realizing that we we...

Nationals and Mets work a trade, who got the best deal?

terpfan1980 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 8:30:18 AM -0500

Long coveted outfielder Lastings Milledge has been (reportedly) traded from the Mets to the Nationals, with the Nationals giving up outfielder Ryan Church and catcher Brian Schneider. My thoughts on the trade: With apologies to the Mets fans out there, as a Nats fan I'm still not ready to call this one a fleecing. I'd rather see just how Milledge does over the next few seasons. I count him as a potential upgrade to what the Nationals have had in the outfield, but how much of an upgra...

The $275 Million Man

foreverserenity — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 7:51:32 AM -0500

David Beckham is guaranteed making $275 Million in the deals he made to come to the United States to play professionally. I enjoy seeing him play, the few times I've seen him on TV. He's a pretty good baller! I don't follow Baseball as much, especially since leaving NY, the little interests I had is no longer there. Here in Florida, there's not too fuss made about Baseball (not that I'm aware of anyhow) now Football, especially college football, and any college sports, yes, they make a...

Apparently a bunch of baseball players really are stupid

terpfan1980 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 9:07:55 AM -0500

Some news today that a few well known MLB players were caught basically red-handed having ordered performance enhancing drugs and supplements. How red-handed ? Does having your own credit card be used to pay for the purchases count as ' very red-handed '? I'm never surprised by how dumb some jocks are. If they were smart, they probably would be doing other things most of the time, rather than concentrating on sports, and going down that career path. They'd be br...

World Series 2007... on the record

terpfan1980 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 8:32:57 AM -0400

Before the first game of the series is played, I'll go out on the record and tell the world here that I just don't care who wins this one. My own favorite team isn't involved in the game and thanks to yet more recent reports of potential steroids and cheating issues, I really don't care about the series at all. Whomever wins it, wins it, but I just don't care. I would say it's about like how I felt about Bonds breaking Aaron's homerun record, but I did care about that. I hat...

Gawd I don't like FOX's lead MLB announcing team...

terpfan1980 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 1:03:33 PM -0400

Following up on the earlier article about World Series 2007 I'll expand a little on why I just don't care about WS2007 -- because of the FRIGGIN' announcers on FOX. It may be sacriligous to say I don't care for Joe Buck, but I am growing increasingly tired of his act. Pair him up with Tim McCarver and you really lose me. As an example of why: both went off on a 'we know more than everyone else and yet we can't figure out why the starter is still in the game' in the 7th ...

Goodbye R-F-K Stadium

terpfan1980 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 5:15:03 PM -0400

Baseball finished their latest round of usage of the now aged R-F-K stadium today, just a scant few years after moving the former Montreal Expos into that stadium to become the new Washington Nationals franchise. The last 3 years have seen fans put up with an old ball park with poor service at the concession stands, stairs that are a total pain to climb, ramps that wind up and down to take fans to the their seats in the upper decks, and inconveniences like railings that sit so close to the se...

Marlins & Nationals Wednesday game

Ziggystyles — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 8:51:27 AM -0400

Just browsing the news and caught an article about Wednesdays Nationals/ Marlins game in Miami. Said there was only about 400 people in attendance but nothing was mentioned as to why. It said it was an afternoon game so that would account for a smaller attendance, but 400 people? Jeesh. Thats sad. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091201874.html MIAMI, Sept. 12 -- After 4 hours 9 minutes of laboring in the tropical midday heat in a cavernous a...

Satchel Paige The Greatest Pitcher of All Time

jjfighter1 — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 4:32:26 PM -0400

Satchel Paige is the greatest pitcher of all time. He is incredible and I am a new fan of this guy. I would have loved to have met him. www.Negro-Baseball-League.com

Satchel Paige The Greatest Pitcher of All Time

jjfighter1 — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 4:31:22 PM -0400

Satchel Paige is the greatest pitcher of all time. He is incredible and I am a new fan of this guy. I would have loved to have met him.

Bring back the wooden bat!

terpfan1980 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 9:41:08 PM -0400

I was talking with a co-worker a bit about baseball this evening and we got around to one of my favorite questions, that of who the best athletes are on youth teams (his first answer was the same as mine, typically the best player/athlete on the team is a pitcher, or perhaps a shortstop/second baseman), which in turn led me to question what happens to these star athletes, who also tend to be some of the better hitters early in their 'careers,' that has them go from being productive hitters to pe...