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After Another Disappointment, Reject The Tired Narratives

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Note: there are many more obscenities in this article than those that usually appear on our site. If you find such things offensive, I recommend that you choose to read one of our other great articles by our amazing authors. Thanks.

I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to decide what to say, and if I wanted to say anything at all. I am still struggling with that, but I decided it was better for my mental health if I just started to type and see what came out. After all, that’s how I started getting into this in the first place when I started my first sports Nationals blog in 2010. What’s below are the ramblings of an incoherent person, one still feeling a wide range of emotions related to the Washington Nationals latest NLDS debacle, another baseball season gone by, and many years of closely following this team.
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The Nats Best Free Agent Signing

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The Washington Nationals aren’t known for making big free agent signings. Most of their big acquisitions are made via trade or extensions to internal players, with a few notable exceptions. After the latest outstanding start by Max Scherzer, I started to think about the Nats’ best free agent signing to date. There were three obvious candidates: Scherzer, Jayson Werth, and Daniel Murphy. So, I put a poll in the (Twitter) field, and Scherzer was the landslide winner.

I wanted to take some time to breakdown the arguments for and the (few) arguments against each, and then I’ll share my pick for the team’s best free agent signing.

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Joe Ross Could Be the Nats’ Andrew Miller

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The Nationals bullpen is… well… underperforming. No one has taken the closer’s role by the horns. There’s a void at the back end of the bullpen as wide as the Grand Canyon. Yet, I legitimately think that there is an answer for that void in the Nats organization: Joe Ross.

Ross has struggled this year as a starter. He has an ERA and FIP well over 5.00 entering Tuesday’s game against the Mariners, his home run rate is astronomical, and his velocity is way down… late in his starts. If only there was a role that existed in a major league organization where a pitcher didn’t need to throw 100 pitches and could empty the proverbial tank with elite stuff before getting tired… Oh, wait, there is. And the Nats desperately need someone who can do that.

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Washington Nationals Comprehensive Spring Training Broadcast Schedule 2017

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This weekend, the Washington Nationals will play their first spring training game, and it will be televised!*

(*if you have an MLB.tv subscription)

MASN’s paltry spring training TV coverage has been an issue for Nats fans for 13 years now, and this year is no different. Luckily, if you do subscribe to MLB.tv, you can more than double your pleasure and your fun before the season officially begins. While MASN will only televise seven games, an MLB.tv subscription will get you 15 games, thanks to away broadcasters and ESPN’s coverage of the game at the Naval Academy.

All told, with TV subscriptions and Charlie and Dave on the radio, you can get 20 of the Nats 31 games (not counting split squad games) in some form. Thanks, internet! (You may be able to get away radio broadcasts on some other days not listed here, but those aren’t listed anywhere at this point. We will try to update this as that information is available.)

Here’s your comprehensive list of Nats broadcasts this spring!
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The Majesty of Stephen Strasburg

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Stephen Strasburg had unreasonable expectations placed upon him from the moment he reached the big league level. He was a number one overall pick with a triple-digit fastball, a disgusting curveball that caused MLB regulars to buckle their knees, and a changeup that dove hard in on righties. He was the first true hope that the Nationals saw enter their organization since Ryan Zimmerman was drafted in 2005.
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We’re Back (Mostly)

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First of all, thank you all for your patience while we recovered from a completely unexpected shutdown from our former hosting service. We’ve moved to a new provider, and we hope to have more speed and stability from our site while we continue to provide the best content that we can. (I’m just as excited to have Mina’s posts back as you all are.)

Over the coming weeks and months, you will continue to notice many changes here. This design and layout is a work-in-progress. We wanted to get a site working as quickly as possible so we could start posting stuff here again rather than on Facebook, and we acknowledge it needs aesthetic improvements. We’ll get there. We promise.

You’ll also notice that our archives are not here. Luckily, despite our previous hosting provider taking us down without warning, we do still have the old content. We will begin to restore the old content in the months ahead, and it will be a long and tedious process to do so.

So for now: we’re back. We hope to be on more stable ground now that we’re running our own infrastructure, and we thank you again for being patient and sticking with us. We’re glad to be back.