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SportsBlogs Nation (Free subscription) | 08/14/2007
Before the 2007 season started, Larry Broadway had a 50/50 chance of starting the year as the first baseman for the Washington Nationals. The Nationals had signed Travis Lee, (who abruptly retired before the season), as a thirty-two year old veteran insurance policy in case Broadway faltered, and he did. In Spring Training, Broadway hit .333 in 11 games, but out of his 7 hits in 21 at bats, only one...
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Capitol Punishment (Free subscription) | 03/25/2007
Just rehashing what Barry's reporting... Travis Lee was released today, giving Dmitri Young the first base job. His release makes it all the more puzzling that they whacked Larry Broadway so early, especially because it was really clear that Lee wasn't going to head north. I'm guessing that they didn't want to have to justify why they were taking Young over Broadway, especially given "The PLAN
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Capitol Punishment (Free subscription) | 03/19/2007
The Nats sent Larry Broadway down to minor-league camp today, promoting the fat, drug-abusing, alcoholic, girlfriend-choking, skipping-out-on-court-date, teammate-loathed, defensively challenged, non-HR slugging Dmitri Young. (You see references in most articles about him to his 'no contest' plea to the spousal abuse charge. What you don't see is that when it came time for sentencing, he
