{"id":2956,"date":"2008-02-10T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/02\/pitching3-bad-cola-choice-single-game-tickets.html"},"modified":"2008-02-10T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T13:33:00","slug":"pitching3-bad-cola-choice-single-game-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/02\/pitching3-bad-cola-choice-single-game-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching3; bad cola choice; single-game tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/09\/AR2008020902123.html?hpid=sec-sports\"><b>Nationals to Start the Season With a Better Feel for Pitching<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/>The Nats pitching situation isn&#8217;t the free-for-all it was last spring training (when 37 pitchers arrived vying 37 spots) but it isn&#8217;t set in stone or even wet cement. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Shawn Hill<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">John Patterson<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jason Bergmann<\/span> all have the &#8220;if they could stay healthy&#8221; cloud hanging over their heads. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Matt Chico<\/span> lead the team in innings pitched last year and was decent. There are also &#8220;a young group of arms that includes <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">John Lannan<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Collin Balester<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Tyler Clippard<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Garrett Mock<\/span> and eventually even <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Ross Detwiler<\/span>, last year&#8217;s first-round pick, is developing with varying degrees of promise. The talent, the Nationals believe, is more concentrated.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As much as we would like <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\u00a1LIVAN!<\/span> back, I understand why the team isn&#8217;t apparently that interested.<\/p>\n<p>The Post&#8217;s spring training preview, a mere one page plus the aricle linked above, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/sports\/mlb\/longterm\/2008\/preview\/pdf\/nationals_preview_08.pdf\"><b>available only in PDF<\/b><\/a> form online.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/nats320.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/more-detail-of-new-nationals-park-part.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Nats320<\/span><\/a> reveals that Nationals Park will be serving Coca-Cola products instead of Pepsi. Boo!<\/p>\n<p>Details on <a href=\"http:\/\/video1.washingtontimes.com\/chatter\/2008\/02\/singlegame_ticket_info_coming.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">single game ticket sales<\/span><\/a> (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Chatter<\/span>) will be announced tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals to Start the Season With a Better Feel for Pitching &#8211; The PostThe Nats pitching situation isn&#8217;t the free-for-all it was last spring training (when 37 pitchers arrived vying 37 spots) but it isn&#8217;t set in stone or even wet cement. Shawn Hill, John Patterson and Jason Bergmann all have the &#8220;if they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,49,106],"tags":[465,469,698,860,936,1111,1220,1222,1569,1664,1832],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-natsmlb-2008","category-washington-nationals","tag-coca-cola","tag-colin-balester","tag-garrett-mock","tag-jason-marquis","tag-john-lannan","tag-matt-chico","tag-nationals-park","tag-nats","tag-ross-detwiler","tag-soda","tag-tyler-clippard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pitching3; bad cola choice; single-game tickets - William F. 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