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Burton vs. McNamee, the Video
In case you're curious what made me love these hearings so much that I started watching Whoopi:...
By Dan Steinberg | February 13, 2008; 02:10 PM ET | Comments (6)
Dan Burton vs. Brian McNamee
My goodness. (AP Photo) The proper thing for a sports blogger to do today would be to watch the Congressional hearings and blog like mad, but I can't take it. I just can't. I'd sooner watch Whoopi's Valentine's Day Parties feature on ABC while being forced to ingest the...
By Dan Steinberg | February 13, 2008; 11:51 AM ET | Comments (2)
Athletes and the Primaries
AP photo. The previous item discussed how some Democratic presidential operatives were supporting the Redskins. But whom, you ask, are the Redskins supporting? Unclear. Mr. Snyder gave $10k to the National Republican Congressional Committee in October. Mark Brunell gave $1,000 to Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.) in April. Couldn't find any...
By Dan Steinberg | January 9, 2008; 12:21 PM ET | Comments (11)
Boston Fans Celebrate
AP Photo You won't believe this story, but it's true, and there are many witnesses. I bought three local newspapers in the Providence airport this morning, and took them to the local Dunkin' Donuts. The woman working the register looked at the front of the top paper, turned to...
By Dan Steinberg | October 29, 2007; 08:20 AM ET | Comments (16)
Dead Baseball Players Emulate Belichick
The inevitable post-scandal spin coming from the media last week was that maybe Belichick's cheating wasn't so bad, or at least, so unusual. The Post ran a big story on other historical shenanigans, although I'm not sure that sending blurry videos is quite the same thing as what the...
By Dan Steinberg | September 20, 2007; 11:14 AM ET | Comments (1)
Baseball Failure in August
The Baltimore Sun had a long story today about how suckingly terrible the Orioles have been in Augusts and Septembers of recent vintage. Now, I've been known to spend hours and hours compiling mostly meaningless statistics (see: preseason NFL scoring trends), but when I do this I'm joking, and anyhow,...
By Dan Steinberg | August 28, 2007; 05:19 PM ET | Comments (9)
Bloody Everyone Has a Posse
At the Beckham game on Thursday, someone (K!) stuck a "Christian Gomez Tiene un Posse" sticker on my chest, which I transferred to my notebook, where it remains. I was still thinking that's a pretty fun campaign for a supporters group to mount, and I'm not willing to say I...
By Dan Steinberg | August 13, 2007; 01:42 PM ET | Comments (4)
Worst Mascot in Baseball? You Betcha
Dan Steinberg is on vacation. Despite his massive photo above, this was not written by him. It was written by the fine optimist over at The Nationals Enquirer, which you must read. Other guest bloggers will check in later today, and all week. Anyhow, TNE writes below, and please provide...
By Dan Steinberg | July 20, 2007; 11:59 AM ET | Comments (39)
Our Local Teams' Odds of Winning it All
I gave myself a window of 45 minutes this morning to accomplish a non-NBA diversion. When the 45 minutes were up, I was the proud owner of an ICAST Classics 50th anniversary calendar, a "Keep'n It Reel" ICAST convention bag, 29 print-outs from the Las Vegas Hilton Sports Book, and...
By Dan Steinberg | July 11, 2007; 05:33 PM ET | Comments (5)
The Padres Don't Like My Stinking Blog
I was idly skimming through the latest issue of ESPN The Printed Publication a few days ago (yes, I'm a subscriber), when I noticed a strange story about the Giles brothers, complete with helpful commentary in the margins from various Padres, who were shown a completed version of the story...
By Dan Steinberg | June 19, 2007; 09:17 AM ET | Comments (4)
Baseball Players are Buck Commanders
By and large, the mainstream media does a tremendous job covering Major League Baseball, but one significant story slipped under the radar this week. Willie Robertson, the current leader of the famed Duck Commander clan of Louisiana waterfowl hunting icons, was in D.C. for three days, conducting business and also...
By Dan Steinberg | June 8, 2007; 12:54 PM ET | Comments (13)
Stewardesses Beneath Baseball Blankets
This counts as a D.C. story because Denny McLain spent one year with the Washington Senators. You remember that, right? Anyhow, McLain is now an author and a blogger for the Brittanica blog. Today, he's writing on alcohol and baseball: When I was a rookie on the Tigers, we were...
By Dan Steinberg | May 22, 2007; 11:59 AM ET | Comments (3)
Charlie Manuel Explains All
So I've been looking for a new team to blanket with Bog coverage once the Wizards' season ends, and I think I found me my team. The Phillies, naturally. You'll recall that on Tuesday night, Charlie Manuel melted down when confronted by a Philly radio personality, and had to be...
By Dan Steinberg | April 18, 2007; 07:39 PM ET | Comments (13)
Sports Illustrated? Please Explain
This is not about college basketball. I feel like I owe the D.C. Sports Blog a public apology. See, on Comcast SportsyNet's "Washington Post Live" last week, the powers-that-be-powerful showed a screen shot of Sports Illustrated's Washington Nationals preview page, which links to the mag's four favorite Nats blogs. One...
By Dan Steinberg | March 27, 2007; 11:44 AM ET | Comments (9)
Chris Young: Caps Fan, Hoyas Fan
When my good friend Pete Wilk, the head coach of Georgetown's baseball team, asked me to publicize his team's upcoming fundraising dinner (Saturday night, 7 pm, headlined by Johnny Bench, $150 per person, all proceeds benefit G'town baseball), I was initially leery. Free publicity, and all that. But then he...
By Dan Steinberg | February 1, 2007; 11:43 AM ET | Comments (11)
Large Strawberry Correction
Bad day for blogging accuracy. My post below about Darryl Strawberry mistakenly said that the person who posted the original blog item about Strawberry on Monday was connected to a theater troupe. He was not. The author of the blog item was the brother of an Upright Citizens Brigade employee....
By Dan Steinberg | November 8, 2006; 03:23 PM ET | Email a Comment
Fixing the Baseball Playoffs. Ideas?
Live from the Wilson Building, seat of District government, comes this proposal to fix the Major League Baseball playoffs. Bud Selig, of course, recently said he'd like to make it more difficult for wild-card teams to advance to the World Series, which seems to be an annual occurrence. David Grosso,...
By Dan Steinberg | October 26, 2006; 10:11 AM ET | Comments (22)
