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Sports Central September 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Pain, Not Champagne, For the Nats On Saturday, the Nats' bullpen finally did what they had to do to keep the game in reach. It was far too little, far too late. |
Sports Central September 9, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Slow Learners and Sore Losers The Chicago Cubs are named after baby bears. Thursday night, they behaved like babies. And one of the infants in the middle of it, who actually began as one of the field's diplomats, still insists on taking the low road. |
Sports Central October 6, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Our Long Nationals Nightmare is Over The man who came into the season leading the prohibitive World Series favorites leaves it with his head in a guillotine basket. |
Sports Central May 14, 2012 Andrew Jones |
Grow Up, Bryce Harper All eyes are on you Bryce Harper and trust me, people will like you a lot more and remember you more positively if you bat .250 with 5 home runs and are gracious and positive and a good teammate. |
Sports Central October 14, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Capital Humblings For Bold Challengers On Friday the very experienced St. Louis Cardinals and the very experienced New York Yankees gave their worthy, younger, upstart Beltway challengers enough experience in their five-game division series showdowns to bode well enough for the immediate and longer-range futures of each. |
Sports Central May 5, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Bryce Reiser? The question, as Bryce Harper begins his recuperation from an injury incurred during a head-first slide on a bases-clearing triple, is whom on the Washington Nationals has crossed the line further, Harper or his rookie manager Matt Williams. |
Sports Central September 30, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Strasburg Plan Didn't Kill the Nats The Strasburg Plan had nothing to do with the Nats going no further than the division series last year. And it had nothing to do with them going nowhere but home when the regular baseball season ended this past weekend. |
Sports Central September 27, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Johnson Deserved a Better Farewell The one thing his coming departure has in common with his previous departures as a major league manager is that most his players aren't in that big a hurry to see Davey Johnson leave the dugout. |
Sports Central October 8, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Most Powerful Bunt of All-Time If the Nats go on to win this set, Wilson Ramos will have shoved Moran to one side as having laid down the most powerful bunt of all-time. |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central August 31, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
A Testy September Looms For Nats The Washington Nationals are struggling merely to keep themselves in the rear view mirrors of the New York Mets in the National League East. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central October 6, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Hook Puts the Nats on the Hook Watch Saturday's National League division series game once again. You've seen rookie mistakes. But you've never seen a rookie manager mistake like this. |
Sports Central February 21, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Not-So-Great Yankee Double Switch One day after the 1964 World Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the New York Yankees, both Series managers were out, and one of them went to work for the team he'd just opposed. |
Sports Central October 8, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Nats Win, By Hook or By Rooks Bryce Harper might be the overwhelming Rookie of the Year winner when the hardware voting is revealed in due course, but he's not the only Washington Nationals rookie with a talent for coming up powerfully enough when the game gets late. |
Sports Central March 22, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
Sports Central September 11, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
No Tomorrow For Mr. Amaro One day after the Phillies were eliminated mathematically from the postseason, Ruben Amaro, Jr. may wish he'd been in a monastery rather than the Phillies' front office from which he's just been canned. |
Sports Central September 22, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
West's Suspension vs. Real Accountability If baseball umpires are supposed to be above the field's passions should they not be held to standards just a little bit higher? |
Sports Central October 3, 2012 Andrew Jones |
2012 MLB Awards All in all, it was a very good year for baseball and the playoffs haven't even started yet. |
Sports Central May 1, 2013 Andrew Jones |
April's Early Warning Signs All in all, the 2013 season looks to be an interesting one. Every division seems to have three or four potential contenders. But most likely May will weed out the weaklings and early overachievers. |
Sports Central September 24, 2015 Kevin Beane |
Yogi Berra, 1925-2015 Yogi Berra was a character and I'm grateful he made it to the ripe old age of 90 before passing away Tuesday night. |
Sports Central January 21, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Nats Win More Than One Way With Scherzer Almost a year ago, enough of baseball thought Max Scherzer might be a little crazy for spurning the Detroit Tigers' $160 million contract extension offer in favor of playing the market to come. |
Sports Central August 23, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Stay the Course With the Strasburg Plan Michael Collins suggests the pending Strasburg Shutdown is really a well-constructed smokescreen the aim of which is to lull the competition asleep and then, bing! wheel out Strasburg once the postseason, into which the Washington Nationals seem to have a locked-down berth, practically, opens. |
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Robert Strauss |
Tech Me Out to the Ball Game Major League Baseball has devised some high-tech ways to keep fans happy both at home and in the stands. |