Great news. Wonderful to hear. Phew!!!!! It was so great to see how Nationals fans supported this player and the team during this ordeal. Best news to be received!
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What A Night For Baseball
The Nationals played great yesterday afternoon – what a great last part of the season; what a wonderful set up for next season. A 500 season basically was played. What great improvement and what great expectations for next season. Well done; well played. We can’t wait as season ticket holders for what is to come.
I fell asleep last night as the Red Sox led the Orioles and the Rays were down 7 to 0.
Imagine my surprise when I awoke and saw such an unexpected turn around.
Wow!
Never give up – never go to sleep – expect the unexpected.
What a pennant race – and what great theatre.
Congratulations to the Nationals for a great season.
Pretty Awesome Return
Wow. How was that for star power and a sense of the moment?
This kid is a star! A huge star.
Kudos all around. So great to see his return.
Five scoreless innings; five strikeouts and no base on balls. Perfect return. Well done. Well played. Way to go.
So Happy for the Washington Nationals
So happy for the fans.
The Nationals have built the team the right way.
In the next few years. They will become the team to beat in the East; they are young; loaded with talent and with great young pitching. Dynamic young stars; and they will be a great team for a long time as well; is my prediction. This is gonna be fun being a season ticket holder.
Next Tuesday, DC will be rocking as it awaits the return of Stephen Strasburg. It will be electric as he strides back to the mound for the first time this season. We all can’t wait.
Enjoy the Long Weekend
My family and I went to the Nationals game last night. What a wonderful game with a walk off home run for the win by the Nats. It was a beautiful night with a great crowd cheering on a young team that is now at the 500 level after half the season has been completed.
The Nationals are doing it right. They will be a very good team for a long, long time. Kudos to the Lerner family.
I thought we have had a very productive off season to date at the Washington Capitals. As noted months ago in my blog we were quite disappointed after losing in round 2 of the playoffs. We would have to let time pass. We would have to be analytic and then become firm in our moves to make. No emotions. Just trying to calmly change the team up and manage the cap well.
Yesterday was busy. As noted.
I think we have been one of the most active teams in the NHL in recrafting ourselves. Hopefully in the right way. Time will tell.
We will be able to resign Karl Alzner and Troy Brouwer so everyone who is amped up, please try to relax just a bit.
We will enter the new season with a very good team and a team that is changed in terms of personality from last season.
We will look to make some trades in the off season maybe even sign another free agent. We will continue to look at all of our options. We may not be able to get anything done. We may be able to do something. Time will tell.
I want to thank the players that have played for us and are now free agents and may end up on other teams. I am grateful for their service and for their contributions to our community. I can thank folks individually later – for now – I am quite happy for Boyd Gordon. He received a great offer and I am sure he will prosper with his new team. Thanks Boyd from everyone here in our community. You were a terrific person and player. You will be missed.
I intend to spend some quality time reading and relaxing and being with family this long weekend so I think this will be one of my last blog posts until next week. Enjoy the time off. Enjoy the fantastic weather here. Go Caps!
John Wall’s First Pitch
DC Sports Team Owners Root for One Another
We do. We really do.
That was a fun event.
I enjoyed it very much.
A rising tide will raise all boats. We are in a small club. We are all part of this community.
Click here to read about it. Thank you for attending today and thank you for watching it on the web.
Go Skins! Go Nats! Go DC United!
Not Really
I disagree with Tracee.
I really do.
It is the off season — summer time in DC. We are in need of repositioning our team to be future-focused; we just closed on our new ownership agreement two weeks ago. What better way to re-launch the new Wizard’s brand and culture than celebrate with our season ticket holders and fans that we won the lottery and have the first round pick on board? The first round pick in the draft. And what better way to generate some off-season interest and sell some tickets — which we really need to do to get our building loud and proud for Wizard’s games next season?
We will show summer league games on Comcast — the Nats showed minor league games on MASN. Same thing. 
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And in basketball, a point guard has the ball in his hands a lot, and plays a lot of minutes — a pitcher throws every five days; sometimes 4 games go by between appearances.
And the NBA is built around star players. Apples and oranges here in a way.
From here on out, it will be about hoops NOT hoopla and hype. John Wall will be a splendid player but he is a point guard, a player who runs the team — like a coach on the floor — who makes players around him better. It is all part of the “secret” of winning in the NBA. “we” instead of “I” — best way to get to a winning culture in the NBA — start with a great point guard. That is why they are “made in heaven.”
We know how to shelter and create a positive culture around young players — see Washington Capitals and Alex Ovechkin. Did you see how Alex already is helping us out via his work in this year’s draft?
I know you are just generating pixels, but we didn’t have a press conference in our main court — we didn’t shoot off fire works did we? Click here.
This article is off base. I won’t let the media generate controversy when there isn’t any to talk about.
Awesome — Just Awesome
That was fun, exciting, and quite the debut.
We all couldn’t be happier. A young phenom living up to expectations and perhaps being even better than advertised.
DC is now a place that stars can shine.
The Nationals are totally relevant on the national sports scene.
A perfect evening and a perfect introduction. Awesome, just awesome. Kudos all around!
Nationals Go Front and Center
You have to be bad before you can be good.
You have to build around the draft.
Your best and highest paid players have to be your best people and most coachable and respectful players.
The Nationals are ready to be front and center.
They picked phenom Bryce Harper last night with the first pick in the draft. He has been called the “Lebron James of baseball.”
Tonight Stephen Strasburg starts his MLB career at Nationals Stadium. The buzz is overwhelming but so great and positive.
Good things happen to those who wait.
I am very happy for the Lerner family. They have been patient and they have executed their plan. They deserve all of the good things that are about to happen to the Nationals.
As a season ticket holder and a friend of the family I am psyched. Go Nats Go!!!