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  1. Nationals, smarting from historic collapse, attempt to recover vs. M’s – Field Level Media – Professional sports content solutions rawchili.com/mlb/723898/ #Baseball #MLB #nationals #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals

  2. Nationals Celebrate Series Win Over Padres with Key Player Highlights

    📰 Original title: The Nationals keep winning, and now they’re celebrating accordingly

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    #sports #washingtonnationals #mlb #baseball

  3. Washington Nationals' Offense Leads MLB After Offseason Preparation

    📰 Original title: The Nats’ offense has surpassed expectations. It’s no surprise to them.

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  4. Kodai Senga allowed one hit in 5⅔ scoreless innings before exiting with a strained hamstring as the New York Mets extended their home-winning streak over the Washington Nationals to 10 games. japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/0 #baseball #mlb #kodaisenga #newyorkmets #washingtonnationals #petealonso

  5. This rite of a Washington spring is now 20 years old

    Thursday was not like any other day this week–but it did fit into a pattern that set in starting in 2005. Meaning, I once again had no other choice but to take off work to go to the Washington Nationals’ home opener.

    My first 15 years of life in and around the District did not include that rite of spring, because major-league baseball (as opposed to intern softball on the Mall) was an other-cities proposition. But I cleared my afternoon for the Nats’ home opener at RFK that April, and the experience was epically worth the work avoidance.

    My wife and I have stayed in the same 20-game partial-season-ticket group ever since, so almost every March or April has treated us to this seasonal event.

    Parts of it have changed immensely–especially with the team’s move from RFK and the peeling paint inside that concrete donut to Nats Park in 2008.

    Where RFK had no neighborhood bars and restaurants for pregame and postgame enjoyment, the blocks north of Nats Park have filled in with residential, office and hotel buildings. To the south, D.C. has replaced the ugly metal hulk of the former Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge with the soaring arches of its successor over the Anacostia. And to the west, Audi Field hosts the other beautiful game as played by D.C. United and the Washington Spirit.

    The neighborhood has overall improved so much since I was reviewing the occasional concert at the Capital Ballroom almost 30 years ago, and I love that.

    Inside and just outside Nats Park, some traditions have held while others have flown in the breeze like the World Series championship flag that has graced our ballpark since 2019.

    On one hand, hearing the aptly-named D.C. Washington sing the national anthem every year is a treat that fans of no other MLB franchise get. And no other team gets flyovers of F-16s from Joint Base Andrews.

    On the other hand, I thought in 2005 that presidents throwing out a ceremonial first pitch would be a regular feature for Nats home openers. But after George W. Bush’s high strike in 2005 and Barack Obama’s comparable throw in 2010, other people have done the honors.

    (Thursday featured Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell, who has more than earned that recognition on his way to Cooperstown.)

    I get that Joe Biden and Donald Trump don’t have the arms to keep the ball out of the dirt–and that Trump’s fragile ego couldn’t stand being booed by Nats fans who rightly disapprove of his authoritarian garbage–but we do need to bring that tradition back.

    And, yes, the Nats have been wildly uneven in their home openers. Thursday was no exception, even between innings: MacKenzie Gore struck out 13 and allowed only one hit and zero walks in six innings, but then the Nats squandered that standout start to lose 7-3 to the Phillies.

    That’s not a great beginning of the season. But I will, of course, be in the stands on Sunday.

    #ballpark #baseball #firstPitch #flyover #homeOpener #MLB #Nationals #NationalsPark #Nats #NatsPark #openingDay #RFK #stadium #WashingtonNationals

  6. The Cleveland Guardians are having an incredible 2024 season, and today was my first chance to see them play in person. This was also the first time I was able to sit behind home plate at Progressive Field! I had some fun taking some photos with a Canon PowerShot A2000 camera I picked up at a thrift store earlier today, a few of which I’ve posted below.

    Description: A view of Progressive Field, home of the Guardians baseball team, showing the stadium, scoreboard, advertisements, and part of the city skyline in the background. The field is being prepared, and a “BE ALERT” safety sign is visible in the foreground Description: Baseball game in progress at a stadium, with a pitcher throwing a pitch, a batter ready to swing, an umpire, and a catcher behind home plate. Description: A hot dog mascot in a stadium, pointing towards the camera, with a baseball game in the background. Description: A group of people sitting in stadium seats, smiling and enjoying a sports event. The crowd around them appears enthusiastic and engaged. Description: A scoreboard at Progressive Field displaying “Guardians Win” with a crowd of fans in the stands below.

    https://medi-nerd.com/2024/06/01/cleveland-guardians-vs-washington-nationals/

    #2024 #2024BaseballSeason #Baseball #ClevelandGuardians #WashingtonNationals

  7. @MissingThePt Admit it. If you were required to watch multiple weeks of the south Florida crew going on the road to take on Washington's team, you'd nod off a few times yourself

    @baseball

  8. Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals are no longer for sale after nearly two years available without a deal, principal owner Mark Lerner has said. japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/0 #baseball #mlb #washingtonnationals #mlb

  9. Abbott was wild tonight and took away a nice 8th inning rally with his top of the 9th #MLB #WashingtonNationals

  10. @rawchili Wow! Is this real? Does this reflect on Keibert Ruiz’s pitch framing?
    #Nationals #Nats #WashingtonNationals

  11. Lost the series to the #WashingtonNationals. Sigh. I really feel like we should have been chanting, “The drought is over, long live the drought.” once we lost in the playoffs last year. #Mariners #mlb #baseball

  12. My son's Little League baseball team is the Nationals, and I can't stop thinking about the day in 2004 (?) when someone screwed up the uniforms for the Washington Nationals MLB team and they had to take the field as the Washington Natinals. No one else seems to remember this and everyone looks at me like I've grown another head when I mention it. At least I have photographic evidence because the Internet is forever.

    #DadThoughts #MLB #Nationals #Baseball #Sports #WashingtonNationals

  13. The list you see below reflects a lot of work done in earlier weeks–three virtual panels recorded in advance, plus a Wirecutter update that I started researching last year.

    4/19/2021: Time to cut internet cords: T-Mobile, Verizon up their bids to be your next home broadband, USA Today

    I wrote about the fixed-wireless home-broadband services now available from these two carriers–one of which looks better positioned to let more Americans dump their local cable or telco monopoly.

    4/19/2021: A key lesson of sports on OTT: first, do no lag, FierceVideo

    An editor at this trade pub asked if I could fill in with coverage of an online event they were hosting. That work started with a write-up of a panel about lessons learned in distributing live sports events on over-the-top (aka “OTT,” meaning delivered on a third party’s broadband) video services.

    4/20/2021: Keynote Interview: Producing OTT Sports Content, StreamTV Sports Summit

    I didn’t just write about Fierce’s conference, I also participated in it by interviewing Chris Marinak, Major League Baseball’s chief operations and strategy officer. You can watch our banter after registering with your e-mail or Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter accounts; meanwhile, take a close look at the screenshot at the right and you may be able to recognize the Nationals bobblehead I’d placed on my desk for this recording.

    4/20/2021: MLB to RSNs: It’s time to think direct-to-consumer, FierceVideo

    Fierce then invited me to write up my own appearance at its show, so I led with Marinak’s answer to my question about his statements in a March season-preview event that MLB wants regional sports networks to sell game coverage direct to subscribers instead of making them sign up for a big pay-TV bundle. (I’d covered those earlier comments in an Opening Day post at Forbes.) Marinak reiterated that stance, and my recap got picked up at a few places; among them, Awful Announcing‘s Andrew Bucholtz and The Streamable‘s Jason Gurwin provided useful context.

    4/21/2021: Netflix subscriber growth downshifts in Q1, FierceVideo

    I wrote one more post for Fierce, in this case because the usual reporter was taking a just-in-case day off after getting his second dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Netflix earnings are less annoying to cover than those of other tech companies, because NFLX posts an “earnings interview” video instead of making people listen to an audio-only recording on which all the executives usually sound alike.

    4/21/2021: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

    This overdue update to the guide I’d last revised in those innocent days of early 2020 brings a new 5G-specific pick, T-Mobile’s M2000 hotspot. AT&T and Verizon’s 5G hotspots, lacking the midband 5G T-Mo offers, were nowhere close–and yet Verizon’s LTE remains so good that the top pick went to the same Vz 4G hotspot as last year.

    4/21/2021: Preparing for the return to live, Collision

    I started this interview of Nathan Hubbard (formerly of Musictoday, Ticketmaster, Twitter and Rival) by mentioning the last game and concert I’d attended in the Before Times. That last musical event was a John Hiatt set at the Birchmere, which led Hubbard to recount how he’d once played that Alexandria venue himself.

    4/21/2021: Verizon’s Slumping Video-Subscriber Numbers: Here’s What A Post-TV Provider Looks Like, Forbes

    Seeing Verizon lose another stadium’s worth of pay-TV subscribers led me to take a closer look at both its Fios TV service and its sales pitch for it online, which at this point represents the softest of sells.

    4/22/2021: WWE: Breaking down the data, Collision

    I talked to WWE CTO Rajan Mehta about the network’s applications of technology… after offering the disclaimer that not only am I not anybody’s idea of a WWE viewer, as a D.C.-based journalist I must self-identify as a C-SPAN man.

    4/22/2021: Facebook Exec Sounds Off On Its New Audio Features, Forbes

    Fidji Simo, who heads Facebook’s app efforts, spoke at a couple of Collision panels about the social network’s upcoming audio features–while other Collision speakers made some good points about Facebook’s history of not thinking through the implications of new products and features.

    4/24/2021: SmartTechCheck Podcast (4-23-21), Mark Vena

    I returned to my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss Apple’s announcements from its “Spring Loaded” event and talk about my findings from testing 5G hotspots around the D.C. area.

     

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    #5G #AirTags #baseball #ChrisMarinak #Clubhouse #Collision #FacebookAudio #FidjiSimo #FiosTV #LTEHotspots #MLBTv #NathanHubbard #Netflix #newIMac #NFLX #OTTVideo #overTheTopVideo #RajanMehta #SpringLoaded #TMobileHomeInternet #TMobileM2000 #verizon #Verizon5GHome #Verizon8800L #VerizonLTEHomeInternet #Vz #WashingtonNationals #WWE