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Greetings from Valley Stream, Long Island, where I'm visiting my wife's family for the holidays. Valley Stream is the town where former Yankees (1952-54) and Kansas City A's (1955-59) pitcher Tom Gorman was from. He went to high school with my father-in-law. Ex-NBA center Connie Dierking is also from Valley Stream. He played in the league from 1958-71. Actor Steve Buscemi is also a Valley
The Nats' signings of first baseman Josh Whitesell and utility man Eric Bruntlett to minor league deals won't do much to excite the fan base. Whitesell is a 4A caliber player; a terrific defender and consistent hitter... in the minors. His 2008 line at AAA Tucson likely gave some in the Washington front office pause for putting him on waivers: .328, 26 homers and 110
A look at the list of still-available free agents makes it seem fairly certain that a lot of last-minute minor league deals will be struck in late January-early February. Not that there won't still be some big money deals; certainly names like Matt Holliday and Jason Bay and a couple of others still figure to get premium dollars. But with more than 100 names still
Today is my oldest daughter Carrie's 20th birthday. Carrie arrived at a little after 2:00 a.m. on December 27, 1989. She was due two weeks earlier, and we gave some thought to naming her "Hesitation" Wood, in honor of that, and for Satchel Paige's famed hesitation pitch. Not really. But, suffice to say, the past two decades have been a blur. She's a college junior
Merry Christmas.. Remember Victor Garate? Victor was the lefthanded reliever the Nats got from the Dodgers last September. I thought of Victor today while watching the movie "Christmas Story" on TBS for about the umpteenth time. There's a scene where Ralphie's dad needs to know the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse for a contest he's entering, and his wife immediately comes up with
The arrival of Matt Capps to the Nationals' bullpen means two things right off the bat. Number one, they're not going to pursue Mike MacDougal. And, number two, by only giving Capps one year, they're paving the way for Drew Storen to be the closer of the future. Capps is young - he just turned 26 in September - and was 27-for-32 in save opportunities
