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With the arrival of my son<\/span><\/a>, I have had to reevaluate the time I spend blogging. For over four years I have been posting the day’s Nationals headlines with commentary around 6:30 a.m. six days a week. It has been a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. I have come to unavoidable conclusion that things need to change, so I started to investigate “retirement.”<\/p>\n

Recently, I visited a Nats bloggers retirement home, located on the old D.C. General Hospital near RFK Stadium, to see what it was like. One former blogger merely sat their painting pictures of Ricky Henderson<\/span> in a Nats uniform. He looked up at me and said, “you have a blog?” Another stared at a photo for former catcher Brian Schneider<\/span> while tears ran down his face. The most recent addition noted he still had higher traffic than the top three Nats blogs combined, despite not posting for a month. Then he swallowed a veggie dog whole. Sideways. Even 2006 color commentator Tom Paichorek<\/span> was there, occasionally saying “Wow” and nothing else. Saddest of all, was the blogger who stopped blogging on Opening Night 2005. He was confined to a wheelchair having fallen off a concourse. I surveyed the scene and realized that while I was thinking of cutting back, I wasn’t ready for this yet.<\/p>\n

I will still be blogging about our Nationals, but on a more limited basis. I don’t quite know how this is going to take shape, but I think the last few weeks has been a pretty fair preview of what is to come. I will also continue blogging about all that other stuff I like to blog about, but probably not as much. I also hope to do a bit of a site redesign to make my Google Reader recommended reading a little more prominent — that will be updated regularly with Nats coverage both from blogs and MSM. If washingtonpost.com could learn how to regularly deliver a RSS feed, we’d really be in good shape, just thought I’d mention that too. I also plan on some new features in the near future with details to come.<\/p>\n

Washington Nationals<\/a>, Nats<\/a>, blogging<\/a><\/p>\n

©MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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