Just before midnight, some 30 minutes after Alexander Ovechkin hoisted the Stanley Cup for the first time, I stood in a swarm of 40,000 best friends with my colleague and reflected on what just happened.
HTTD’s Patrick Rice is joined by DC Sports Talk Czar Grant Paulsen to discuss some of the early storylines around the Washington Nationals through roughly two months of the MLB season.
With the first week of the 2018 season under the Washington Nationals belt, the team sits 4-5 after being swept at home by the hated New York Mets. Despite starting the season 4-0, Washington has scuffled and fallen below .500 for the first time since August 2015.
Dave Martinez is a baseball guy. He was traded five times, played for four teams in one season, and played 11 seasons in the majors collecting 1,599 hits. Not a bad stat line for a journeyman.
Here we go. For the fourth time in six years our beloved Washington Nationals are National League East Champions, and ready for the postseason.
On January 9th, 2014, the Washington Redskins hired Jay Gruden to succeed Mike Shanahan as head coach. Gruden, a sought-after coach, cut his teeth through the coaching ranks to finally step out of his brother’s shadow.
The 2016 Washington Redskins defense was nothing short of bad. And that’s probably the single nicest way to describe the Joe Barry-led group.