{"id":3238,"date":"2008-05-08T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/05\/capital-punishment-dfaed.html"},"modified":"2008-05-08T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:04:00","slug":"capital-punishment-dfaed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/05\/capital-punishment-dfaed\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Punishment DFA&#8217;ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Stan Kasten<\/span> was probably lighting a cigar with a $100 bill. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jim Bowden<\/span> probably tricked out his Segway a little more and rode it to the leather pants store. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Frank Robinson<\/span> probably slept in. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Mike Bascik<\/span> probably watched a video of him giving up 756 to Barry Bonds. Why are they celebrating? <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Chris Needham<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/dcbb.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/tonights-night.html\"><b>is shutting down Capitol Punishment<\/b><\/a>, one of the longest-running and the best Nats blog. Between this and Barry Svrluga moving to the Redskins beat (hopefully just a formality before getting a columnist position) coverage of the Nats is taking a hit.<\/p>\n<p>While I appreciate Needham&#8217;s 3.5 years, I can&#8217;t help but think he&#8217;s letting all those guys off the hook. At least he is doing it on his own terms and not because he fell off a concourse on Opening Night 2005 like the Nationals Pastime guy.* <\/p>\n<p>*Just a theory, it did happen to someone that night though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Stan Kasten was probably lighting a cigar with a $100 bill. Jim Bowden probably tricked out his Segway a little more and rode it to the leather pants store. 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