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Mina Dunn

I watched the Orioles until I was ten when I realized that (most) fans at RFK didn’t shout letters during the National Anthem. I’m a Public Relations and Economics major at VCU, the associate managing editor at TNB, and a sports columnist for a student newspaper. Be my friend on Twitter dot com: @maddc8.

Ryan Brothers Get in Fight in Bryce Harper Jersey

Mina Dunn June 06, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

Bryce Harper sometimes punches people. Sometimes, he yells obscenities at people. And sometimes, my dear reader, he is choked for it. So, what other way is there to honor him than by fighting with your brother in public donning his jersey? I sure don’t know, and the Ryan brothers don’t seem to have an idea either.

Rob and Rex Ryan were seen at Margaritaville in Nashville in an altercation that looks exactly how you would think a fight between two white guys past 50 would look. As a mormon, a bar fight is the kind of fight Harper is least likely to get in, so Rex did him a solid and checked it off his bucket list for him.

Rob and Rex Ryan crushing Nashville @barstoolsports @BarstoolBigCat pic.twitter.com/AxktGa0Hn7

— Cooper Stefaniak (@CooperStef) June 4, 2017

The twins coached for the Buffalo Bills until late December 2016 when they were fired before the team’s final game of the season for failing to make the playoff . Rex didn’t throw his hands on someone’s neck then, though, for some reason (@ Jonathan Papelbon).

In all, decent week for dudes in No. 34 Nationals jerseys who fought people.

Off-the-Field Recap: The Indians Blew A 3-1 Lead

Mina Dunn June 02, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

The Nationals… did some stuff that didn’t involve baseball this week. Here are their stories.

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Off-the-Field Recap: Jose Marmolejos Is In This One

Mina Dunn May 26, 2017 2017 Articles, Features Leave a Comment

There’s nothing quite like narrowly escaping a sweep by the Atlanta Braves to really put life, love, liberty, and the Washington Nationals off-field happenings into perspective.

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Oliver Perez Shines in Tarp Application Outing

Mina Dunn May 21, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

Oliver Perez: number 46 on the roster, number three or four-ish in our hearts when the situation calls for a lefty specialist, and number one in foul line jumpers. Saturday, the relief pitcher became the number one enemy of rain. As the grounds crew struggled to pull the tarp over the field at Sun Trust Park, Perez, like a baseball James Bond, stepped in.
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Off-The-Field Recap: The Boys of Summer

Mina Dunn May 20, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

The Nationals are extremely dramatic, and their performance swings are exhausting, but they are lovable anyway, and this is a run-on sentence to designed to communicate that and that they did some things this week.

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Little Nats Fan Asks Rizzo to Re-Sign Bryce, Werth

Mina Dunn May 14, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

The chance to see adorable letters written by small baseball fans in hopes of persuading their favorite teams’ general managers to do their bidding is one of the best things about the advent of social media. (Though, it was not as cute when a kid asked the Giants to sign Mark Melancon. Never forget.) It’s a modern day Dear Abigail, but with more desperation.

Saturday afternoon, little Natalie spoke for all Nats fans when her mom posted a picture of a letter she sent to Nationals GM Mike Rizzo, asking him to pull out all the stops to sign Bryce Harper and Jayson Werth. She even slipped him a 20 (plus one) to make it happen.

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Uncle Ray Returns to Twitter

Mina Dunn May 14, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

Bryce Harper home runs tend to send shockwaves that could probably be comically illustrated by waking hibernating bears, kickstarting fields of flowers to bloom, and even getting MASN analyst Ray Knight to awaken from his social media slumber.

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Bryce Harper and the Amazing, Wonderful, Not Bad, Very Good Day

Mina Dunn May 14, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

At about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, your phone might have been buzzing off the table with notifications of Bryce Harper and the Nationals agreeing on a $21.65 million deal to avoid arbitration for next season. It’s the largest deal for an arbitration-eligible player in MLB history because Harper and big numbers go hand in hand.

Big numbers like two walk-off homers against the Phillies in the last month. Harper sent his bomb out on a 0-1 pitch, straight out to centerfield to land atop of his big pile of money like the cherry on top it was.

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Nats Admire John Wall’s Game 6 Heroics

Mina Dunn May 13, 2017 2017 Articles Leave a Comment

Friday night, DC held a second election and John Wall emphatically earned the presidency, at least according to most tweets from 11 to 12 that night. Despite putting up a mere three points in the first half, Wall never wavered and sunk the three-point shot that would secure a Washington Wizards victory and a Game 7 with only seconds left in the 4th quarter.

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Off-the-Field Recap: Disabled List Daze

Mina Dunn May 12, 2017 2017 Articles, Features Leave a Comment

It was a week like any other week. Max Scherzer took another no-hitter into the sixth inning, the Nationals played sub-par games against the Orioles, the Washington Capitals were eliminated in the second round… But from beyond the DL, Adam Eaton led the charge to break up the monotony that led to off-field highlights of the week.

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