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Fake Umps Phenomenon Hits Nationals Park to Great Delight of Fans

WASHINGTON -- If you've tuned into a Blue Jays game at the Rogers Centre this year, chances are you've seen Tim Williams and Joe Farrell. If those two names aren't ringing a bell -- and there's really no reason they should -- how about a description.Williams and Farrell, both Jays season-ticket holders, often take their...

MLB FanHouse's Stephen Strasburg Pool

Drafting Stephen Strasburg No. 1 overall in the MLB Draft was the easy part. Now the Nationals are staring at potentially (OK, likely) two-plus months of negotiations with his adviser, agent Scott Boras.What are the rest of us left to do? Sit and wait. Gawk at the numbers and rhetoric likely to be thrown out from the Boras...

Zimmerman, Nats Take Leap of Faith

WASHINGTON – It took the one player already most identified with baseball in Washington to put an exclamation point on the Nationals' efforts to change.Ryan Zimmerman, the Nationals' first-ever draft pick and all-time leader in runs, hits, doubles, home runs, extra-base hits and RBI, signed a five-year, $45 million...

Daily Jolt: Nats Looking for Answers

The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.WASHINGTON -- When is it time to start worrying?That's the question Nationals fans have to be asking themselves after watching their team fall to the world champion Phillies 9-8 in Washington's home opener. The Nats are now 0-7 and have lost 11 straight...

Washington Coverup: How Empty Will Nationals Park Be?

So much for the new era of openness and transparency in Washington.The Nationals won't say how many season tickets they have sold, and they won't say who is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in their season opener Monday.Team president Stan Kasten did acknowledge though, that the opener is not sold out (of course, he...

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05/24/12 California dreaming? Dodgers want Winter Classic Source: CBS - KTVT CBS 11 - Dallas / Fort Worth TX Does the National Hockey League's Winter Classic doesn't even need winter?
05/23/12 Ethier won't set deadline for contract talks - Andre... Source: Rotoworld.com "We'll take a look at whatever they bring to us," said Ethier, who is due to hit free agency following the season.
05/22/12 When looking at the World Series Dodgers look best Source: Gaming Today - Las Vegas NV When looking at the chances of all the baseball teams to win this year's World Series, the Dodgers look the best.
05/19/12 Kasten focused on Dodgers, impressed by Nats Source: MLB - Los Angeles Dodgers Stan Kasten is now working 3,000 miles away, with a different team on another coast, but his imprint is all over a Nationals club that is competing right now for first place in the National League East. Kasten's focus is on the Dodgers, but he was in town this weekend to attend the graduation of his son from nearby University of Maryland as his former employers played the Orioles at Nationals Park. "They've done a terrific job building it the right way," Kasten said of the Nationals on Saturday, giving much of the credit to his hand-picked baseball operations department.
05/15/12 Dodgers' wives, kids have brighter place to play Source: MLB - Los Angeles Dodgers Guggenheim Baseball Management has owned the Dodgers for less than a month, and has wasted no time making improvements.