Since When Was Cheering Unprofessional?

New York Mets losing pitcher Nelson Figueroa, after last night’s 10-4 defeat at the hands of the Washington Nationals, called the Nationals players — led by Elijah Dukes — “truly unprofessional” for cheering loudly from the visitor’s dugout at Shea Stadium. “They were cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls,” Figueroa, said. [...]

Teddy Delivers Flowers Instead of Victory on Mother’s Day

On a rainy Mother’s Day afternoon, Teddy Roosevelt today completed another winless homestand at Nationals Park. As the Washington Nationals were engineering another heartbreaking loss to the improbably division-leading Florida Marlins, Teddy Roosevelt was taking matters into his own hands, jumping out to a huge lead in this afternoon’s presidents race. But regular observers of [...]

Roosevelt #26 T-Shirts Are Here

Roosevelt #26 T-Shirts have arrived at letteddywin.com, and I’m bummed I’m not going to have mine in time for the Nationals-Marlins series this weekend. Available styles include jerseys, adult t-shirts, women’s t-shirts, and t-shirts in kids and infant/toddler sizes. There’s even a baby bib for the littlest Ben’s Chili Bowl fans to bring to Nationals [...]

Nationals Park Makes the Big Time

You know you’ve hit it big when The Onion makes fun of you. Today’s recommended reading: The lead story on The Onion sports page reports that “an 8,976-foot foul ball off the bat of Washington third baseman Ryan Zimmerman crashed through the U.S. Capitol Building rotunda.” “We are so dead,” Zimmerman is reported as saying. [...]

Goodbye to the Best Nationals Blog

Blogger Chris Needham has has hung up his keyboard after almost 4 years at the helm of Capitol Punishment. Chris’s blog was required daily reading by every Nationals blogger, beat writer, and team executive (not necessarily in that order). This is going to really sink in the next time Jimbo pulls the trigger on a [...]

New: Detailed Presidents Race Results

Blog.letteddywin now features detailed game-by-game presidents race results

Abe Wins Fifth Straight to Close Nationals Homestand

Abraham Lincoln wins his 5th straight presidents race to finish the Washington Nationals homestand at Nationals Park

Last series of the homestand

Greetings from Texas. I had to leave town for the Pirates series — the last of this terrific Nationals homestand, so bear with me as the site is a little behind on the presidents race standings. I can piece it together later, but if you were at any of the games and saw who won, [...]

Equilibrium at Nationals Park

Could it be that we are seeing a state of order and balance established at Nationals Park? Time will tell, but the signs this week are very strong. The first month at DC’s newest monument was certainly tumultuous. The spectacular collapses, jinxed batters, and injuries on the field were nothing next to the presidential booing, [...]

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