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  1. Neal Pomea
    DC could use Alex Gordon. I hope we make a good offer.
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    Good luck with your medical problems. Sorry to hear that.

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    iTunes Blues

    Neal Pomea replied to mjzee's topic in Audio Talk

    Works fine (music playback) now that I updated to Windows 10. Crossing my fingers.
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    Good point. MOY didn't help Matt Williams in Washington much.
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    Beat Cajun album covers from the 70s Nathan Abshire, Good Times Killing Me Austin Pitre on his porch "Uncle Ambrose" Thibodeaux at the park
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    Congratulations to Jeff Bannister and Joe Maddon, Managers of the Year!
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    It would be one thing if ISIL pulled a Pearl Harbor type attack on the French Navy, wiping them out in port. Instead the first thing they did in France was kill people attending a soccer match, a concert, eating at a restaurant. I do see a difference there between an act of war and out and out terror on the civilian population. That doesn't make it any easier to respond, I know. It must be met with counter-violence of some kind, unfortunately with terrible consequences for the civilian population in Syria where ISIL hides among and dares to call itself the state. IMO.
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    Is the MLB cap for qualifying offers (15.8 mil?) too low or something? Seems like somebody would have accepted it by now. Wieters of Baltimore just did the same thing. Good luck to Simmons in LA! Glad he's out of the NL east. He's been a real menace. The best defensive shortstop maybe since Vizquel.
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    Hope you have a good one!
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    Thanks! I don't think I even logged on yesterday!
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    Papelbon would drive away fans. Don't think the owners would like that. If there's friction between the GM and the owners, I wouldn't be surprised if Papelbon were a part of that equation.
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    Game halted in '33 Series to clear pigeons out of park! Love it!
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    I gotta wonder what's in it for Baker. It's a two year contract but I haven't heard the terms. Anyway, I doubt he'll stay more than two years. This team is more than a couple of years away from it all, IMO. I think Black was offered 1.6 million for a year, which sounded like a starting point for discussions of two+ years, but that didn't come to fruition. I think Metheny makes 600,000 or thereabouts per year. Don't quite understand Black's feeling deeply insulted. Offered less than Mattingly, but more than all but a few managers, if what I read is correct. Hoping Trea Turner and Lucas Giolito come up faster than scheduled, and the GM can make some miracle free agent signings. When you see how the KC team came up together through AA and AAA, DC seems to be a lot more on the mercenary side of the game. Lots of different models and approaches, that's for sure. Not pulling for a Giants-Royals rematch in 2016!!
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    Nationals signed Dusty Baker? Good move, I hope! Some Wash Post writers apparently felt they got burned on the story because they reported it would be Bud Black, and now they are taking it out on the team owner in columns and blogs. It's hard to read even the Post sometimes! And sports radio here is just impossible. How about a move for Justin Upton to DC? Put him in left, Harper in center, and Werth in right? Although it appears that Harper was high in the voting on Gold Glove for right field this year, so maybe he should stay there.
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    Series BEGINS Oct. 27. At this rate the hero may be Mr. November!
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    Yes, the Grays shared Griffith Stadium with the American League team. The American League team was officially named the Nationals until the mid-50s but you would never know it. People insisted on calling them the Senators, the name of an older franchise. For some reason I still think Senators should be the nickname of our current franchise. We should be the Washington Senators! That's it. I am spreading the rumor that this is a curse on us until we change the name! And change the curly W logo from the franchise that moved to Texas. Nothing against Texas, but the curly W was the logo only for 10 dreadful years in the 60s. Even the block W means more to the city's history. Iconic as the Cubs' C. If they could change it to DC, I am sure many locals would applaud. That is how many of us think of ourselves. DC. A Columbian District.
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    It's time for the Rangers to win. They were the expansion Senators, even older than Astros and Mets. It's time for DC to win. Not since 1924. I don't care that this is the third franchise in the city. The original Nationals with Walter Johnson. The expansion Senators with Frank Howard. And the migrated Expos. We don't root for franchises here. We root for the city. (Too many people here forget we had a dynasty when we shared the Homestead Grays and they were the Yankees of the Negro Leagues for 10 years. They played half or more of their home games in DC for a spell.)
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    Good match up tonight! KC must feel confident.
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    Strike zone issues factored big time in Game 2, 2014, between DC and SF. Panik got the umpire's benefit of the doubt over Zimmermann and the mind boggled, as I recall. Maybe it's time for pitch track. Just saying.
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    I guess I am spoiled! No game tonight and I am in withdrawal! The strange strike zone in Toronto in Game 5 seemed to have done in Volquez. I imean, he sort of created it by consistently getting calls outside, then he got too far outside or low for it to work for him in the big Blue Jay inning.
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    The Cubs would do well to get Jordan Zimmermann from the Nationals. He's a free agent. The Cubs are on more of an upswing than the Nationals. But he might be hoping to sign with Milwaukee. You're probably right about Arietta running out of gas. But it could have just as easily been the Mets' pitchers!
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    That IS strange! No, I had never heard of the "man in white" story until just now. Thanks for the tip!
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    Royals seem to think the signs between pitcher and catcher are being stolen and relayed to the Blue Jays, per Fox announcers. Can't get in synch and establish a rhythm. Very strange.
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    Amazing comeback by the Royals! Death by paper cut! One single after another.That's the way one of those commentators described the game 4 comeback against Houston, and it's happening again! For what it's worth, Pete Rose predicts KC in 5. WS symmetry/karma this year? How about Chicago - KC (the jazz series!) How about NY - KC (the 1950s oddity of the Kansas City Athletics being almost a farm team for the Yankees!) There's the great story of Casey Stengel going to sit down next to a struggling Yankee player in the dugout in the middle of a game and telling him "Not too many people know this but ONE of us has been traded to Kansas City." The man had a way with the language!
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    Even seeing "meltdowns" by other teams HURTS this Columbian District fan! Ay ye yaille!
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