Did you ever think you'd see me kinda sorta maybe defend Rob Dibble? The lukewarm defense is over here. So what about that Nyjer? Things are definitely in his head... his performance... Riggles leaving him out to dry... the demotion to 8th... He's shown that he's not a particularly instinctive player. (Note: he was picked off while you read that sentence) And he's in the middle of a tough

So there's all this talk about Rob Dibble. Should he stay? Should he go? Does anyone really care all that much? (My three cents are: eh; eh; I certainly hope not.)But let's presume Dibble is gone after this season. Obviously, MASN will need to find a replacement. Now, there's a bit of a difference between "MASN" and "the Nationals" in this context, maybe, at least if I understand the

This is probably a very rash post, which will likely be noted by most who read it as irrational and lacking a certain brand of perspective, but it just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how "careful" you are with a pitcher, how much you "monitor" things, or how assuredly you avoid any usage that might even smack of "abuse." It doesn't matter. Injury can happen, it would seem, on any given

1,278-time Emmy Winner Jimmy "Not Jimy" Williams writes a defense of famous meathead Rob Dibble in today's (yesterday's) Examiner. That's the newspaper that's usually laying on an empty seat on a Metro car that causes you to pause, wondering if you should push it to the floor, or sit on it, eventually causing you to opt to stand for fear of what kinds of fluids some previous passenger may have

While not having Rob Dibble on the air is a joyous thing (sadly I was otherwise occupied tonight, and missed out on Ray Knight's banality), it does make me wonder ... Why would he get put into time out after ripping on Strasburg but not for ripping on the broads? Stan Kasten's quote is priceless and almost makes me like the guy again, but is that really a dumpable offense? I guess the only way

Damn monkeys... So last week as a pretty damn good week to be a Nats fan, no? Or was that this week? Time really is a blur now when you're having this much fun with quality baseball being played. For my take on what the draft signings mean, and how this might someday be a great week (though I'm not necessarily holding my breath), click on over here.

Or maybe you can. I wasn't very good at math. The only thing I'll say about the ol' Dibble thing is that I think it's complete and utter horseshit that Todd Webster and the gang at MASN are so heavily moderating comments that anything even mildly against Dibble -- even respectful without swears! -- isn't getting posted. That's shittastic PR, and pretty fucking shameful. Pretty amazing that

That they may not be as cheap as they once were? They're rapidly moving up to senile ol' grandma who pays you 50 cents when you mow her lawn territory, I guess. Of course after this many years of profit-taking and the Strasburg attendance windfall, I don't feel too much sympathy for the Lerner great great great great great grandkids.

The Ring of Honor idea is nice, but broken. There's only one way to fix it: WWPAD? (PA meaning Peter Angelos) What! Read more. Here. Please!!!

Yep. Still a great trade.

Sez Boz: Getting a Dunn deal finished shouldn't even be that hard. For weeks, reports have said Dunn wanted $60 million for four years. "That's not true," said one of Dunn's best baseball friends, who talked with him recently but requested anonymity so that Dunn wouldn't hurt him when they hand-slap at home plate after his home runs. "Adam said he wants $13 to 14 million for three years. That's

The Nats are honoring one of Washington's All-Time greats tonight. And if you think that's a cynical sentence, then you need to read this. SEND HITS!

The Nats are set to unveil their ring of honor tomorrow, which commemorates some of the greats who played in DC, and some place called "Montreal" wherever the hell that is. One of the DCians being honored is Joe Cronin, a Hall-of-Fame shortstop who managed the Senators to the 1933 World Series. Cronin was a terrific ballplayer, and a solid manager. After his stint with DC, he went to the Red

Who'd we get? No. Really, who? Does it matter? This is the best kind of trade... the something from nothing trade. At one point a few years back, I had the grand idea of doing transaction trees... finding out where players came from. Ie: Zimmermann came from Soriano who came from Wilkerson, who was a draft pick of the team. Those are fun moves... but the really fun ones are the ones like

Here's the thing I haven't seen anyone point out about the Dunn visiting Uecker thing.... (and perhaps someone did in comments; i haven't read that much) It was the bottom of the second inning in a game on the road. Was Riggleman really going to bring in Adam Dunn for defense in the second? Now, I realize that Mike Morse was in the game, and you never know when you're going to need to double

I'm cleaning up the approximately 56,340 GB of emails in my mailbox, and ran across this exchange I had with someone who wrote/write/not-gonna-let-you-tense-your-way-into-figuring-out-who-it-is/was just prior to the 2007 draft. In light of Ross Detwiler's magnicient start today, it's especially fun. I've got bad news for you Chris... the Nats won't take Matt Wieters, even if he falls to them.

You write enough stuff on the internet, you're going to 1) say something stupid, or 2) say something that's completely wrong. Lord knows I've done both. With that caveat, this is pretty freakin' hilarious.

If I were the Nats I wouldn't not trade Dunn for nothing, unless they didn't get something less than nothing, no? Got it? No? Well head over here then for more clarification.

Waaaaaah! “I've been in broadcasting for 12 years, whether it was ESPN or Fox, but this (being the Nats' TV color man) is different, because people are far more critical of one-liners and throwaway comedy lines,” Dibble said. “There's (more criticism of people in the public eye) because of the internet. Also He said he accepted the job after the Nationals offered it to him for the second time.

I'm still not inclined to give the team the benefit of the doubt. Until I see what his numbers look like after 40 IP, I'm agnostic. But here's some video of him pitching. At least til the MLB Nazis take it down. Progress, I suppose. Not about the Nazis, but the signing. Duh.