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Now that baseball has returned to Washington, and the Nationals have a new stadium and real hope for the future, it's time to proclaim once and for all that Baltimore is for the birds. As a young man growing up in D.C., Baltimore was strictly "second-city." After all, Washington had NATIONAL Airport; Baltimore had Friendship Airport. Our city was named after the man who won the Revolutionary War. Their city was named ...

Should the Washington Nationals try to sign Adam Dunn to a multiyear contract during the offseason? á Dunn, who signed a two-year, $20 million deal last February, was willing to sign a longer contract, but someoneùmaybe owner Ted Lerner, perhaps team president Stan Kastenùsaid no. á Bill Ladson, beat writer for nationals.com, wrote this week that if given the chance he would trade Dunn for prospects. á General Manager Mike Rizzo will no doubt receive many ...

Last November, a little more than half of all Americans believed that Barack Obama was the answer to the problems plaguing America. The only way to succeed, they thought, was Obama’s sweeping agenda.   The rest of the country, however, saw the nation’s foundation as generally solid, and all it would take to regain America’s greatness was some general refinement in the way we ran our government.   At this point, no one is ...

All Washington baseball fans, whether they were alive at the time or not, know the story of the magical year of 1969, when Ted Williams led a group of fair-to-middling baseball players to an 86-76 record, coming within just one game of third place in the American League’s new Eastern Division.   It had been a quarter-century since Washington fans had experienced a winning season, and they flocked to the then still-new RFK ...

The Washington Nationals are 19 games away from securing the top pick in baseball’s amateur draft for the second straight season.   You can decide if congratulations or condolences are in order.   Either way, Washington is a full six games ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates for the right to draft uber-prospect Bryce Harper, the high school catcher from Nevada who is so good he’ll be playing college ball next spring instead of finishing ...

The Washington Nationals are 19 games away from securing the top pick in baseball’s amateur draft for the second straight season.   You can decide if congratulations or condolences are in order.   Either way, Washington is a full six games ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates for the right to draft uber-prospect Bryce Harper, the high school catcher from Nevada who is so good he’ll be playing college ball next spring instead of finishing ...

The Washington Nationals are on a pace to finish the season at 56-106, four games worse than last year’s woeful effort.   Their wish list for next year, however, is not nearly as long as their record would suggest.   They are set with quality major leaguers at catcher (Jesus Flores), first base (Adam Dunn), shortstop (Cristian Guzman), third base (Ryan Zimmerman), left field (Josh Willingham), and center field (Nyjer Morgan) .   Second is a ...