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I vote for Ryan Zimmerman of DC for Gold Glove. Nobody takes the bad hops the way he does then slings it side armed to second for the start of a double play.

That will be mathematically difficult since we will finish with 161 games, barring any rain outs in our three game series with the Marlins. We are 78-80 now and would have to sweep to make it 81-80. I am cautiously hoping for 80-81. Also, time to do away with the curly W and use an interlocking DC as our logo. What in the world will we call ourselves if we gain statehood one of these days? There's already a Washington state. The name Washington DC would only complicate matters. Better to call us DC, imo. Braves face a tough match up against the Phils. I figure both teams will ratchet it up these last few days.

I have often rooted for St Louis as a second choice when my teams don't make it to post-season, but the way they and Atlanta are backing into the playoffs this year has me rooting for Arizona. Milwaukee should be in the American League, instead of moving Houston in 2013. Of course MLB would never admit they were wrong to move Milwaukee in the first place, so I am afraid it will be "screw you, Houston."

So much for the "blue collar" Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies. Millionaires irrationally worshiped as working class heroes. Soon to be that way in Washington Columbian District with its Nationals baseball team. I will probably be priced out of attending games once the team starts winning.

Yes, Chien-Ming has been one of the success stories for Washington this year. Might never match his days with NY, but he'd be a great addition to our staff next year, and I heard him say nice things about the organization for sticking with him. Now, if we could get Ivan Rodriguez back next year and beyond as a player/coach! How rare are player/coaches these days! Would love to see him get his 3000th hit in DC, though he doesn't need it to be a first ballot HOFer, imo.

What a dummy Einstein turned out to be! (if the Washington Post sportswriters were writing about science).

No, the nightmare this year was all the televised Yankees and Red Sox games. Infuriating. East coast unimaginative baseball writers are going to absolutely ruin baseball if they keep driving it this way. MLB will be like the NBA, where nobody wants any final teams except the Lakers and the Celtics.

Your luck might change this weekend in Washington. I am going to Friday night's game, weather permitting. Strasburg pitching. But we are due for some losses. Been winning more often lately than we can sustain. If we keep up like this, we will get close to .500. I can't see it!

Yes, I think so. Not a stupid question at all. When I got the free Amazon Cloud Player, I loaded it to my PC and my phone at the same time. Some programs allow that. I didn't see how to do that with this program, but maybe you can. If you have a Droid phone, you have an icon on the screen for something like a marketplace for applications. Just open it and search on MLB AT BAT 11, or even MLB, and you should be able to find it. Can't help you with an iPhone or any other brand. There's always someone knowledgeable who can help at the store where you bought the phone, if you bought it in person.

Try MLB At Bat 11. Pretty cheap, like $20 if I remember right. I listen to our local radio broadcasts of Washington Nationals games. There's a premium version that includes video, but the cheap version has radio and a graphical interface doing play by play, with brief video of highlights and spectacular plays.

Hey, I have some of these. Had no idea they were Martins.

Man called Rankin' Toyan! Scientist! Specialist!

The imbalance was caused in part by moving Milwaukee to the NL. Return them to the AL where they belong. Leave Houston in the NL, imo.

Never understood how anyone could say "This is an irrelevant game." It might not mean anything for the pennant race, but that does not make it irrelevant. That's pretty unimaginative. It might be some kid's first major league game, or just something to remember. I will always be grateful to the neighboring family who took me along to their trip to the Astrodome to see the lowly Astros play the Koufax era Dodgers for my first major league game. We sat in bum fuck Egypt centerfield, and we could hardly see what was happening between pitcher and batter, but it was magic to me, and hardly irrelevant at all! Been an Astros fan ever since. I remember Gene Elston and Lowell Passe doing the broadcasts. Thanks for the clips and the memories!

Have a good one!

Never missed a day. WAMU. 88.5. It went to HD radio only for a short while, then under protest they opened another tower and number (105.5) so you can catch it over regular radio in your car.

Not really. Uncle Dave Macon played until 1952. Doesn't get any more country than that! (Rather go to hell riding a mule than heaven in an automobile!) Uncle Dave used to yell "Murder" during the instrumental breaks of his songs!

Today would have been Bill Monroe's 100th birthday. He passed in 1996. Lots of tributes to him this week on bluegrass radio in DC. Really a giant of American music, especially bluegrass gospel. Quite a songwriter. I put him up near the top in country music! Don't know why he wasn't one of the first, 1961 inductees in the country music Hall of Fame along with Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose, and Hank Williams. (inducted in 1970) Really enjoyed Wade Mainer with the Morris Brothers. I have a CD he did with his wife Julia that is from his later days but still enjoyable!

I just put a link without the media/media tags that I see in your post, and it did it automatically for me. I was using Windows XP and Mozilla Firefox. Maybe the browser makes a difference? It didn't work when I simply removed your media and /media tags. Edit: My browser was Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2

Wonder how this will affect Allen Lowe's Really the Blues? I have been eager for an eventual release of volume 2. So this will make illegal all JSP copies of 2011's Acadian All Star Special? Music from the immediate post World War II era. This material had never even made it from 78s and 45s to the long playing record era, much less the CD and iTunes eras, and since it was not in the public domain and possible to reproduce without legal fears it was lost to several generations of musicians. That's a lot of culture lost. That's something to smile about? What a world! Somebody's not subtle. Why in the world is there ONE law to cover situations as different as this mean THEFT from the public domain and Chuck Nessa's issues, which I can totally agree about with him?

From the album Tim Hardin 3: Live in Concert Stunning singing. Sad he left us too soon. Him and Hank, both. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utyyDLIyNS0&list=FLl_-tD2va_T6TPkdzAyZzIg&index=1 Studio version, from Tim Hardin II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAkcybHs6dc&feature=autoplay&list=FLl_-tD2va_T6TPkdzAyZzIg&playnext=1

Steven Strasburg starting tonight for Washington against LA Dodgers. Might be a rain-interrupted or delayed game. The manager says he wants Strasburg to go 4 innings or ~60 pitches. First MLB game back from Tommy John surgery, just about a year ago.

Courville and McGee Waltz from March 1929, Denus McGee and Sady Courville http://www.npmusic.org/DennisMcGee_Courville_McGee_Waltz.mp3 Something noble sounding about this sad, sad waltz! Unforgettable.

I thought Slim Whitman was more of a Nudie suit kind of guy. Or did the remark about cardigans and slippers refer to the audience? I am a little bit lost with that comment.