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The trophy's all outta shape and Ovi's all "I dunno what the **** we did last night but i wanna do it again!"

Hope Big Train, Joe Cronin, Bucky Harris, and all them are loving this too, where ever they are. Same with Cool Papa Bell and Buck Leonard and all the old Homestead Gray players - though they were denied access to the same opportunities, shamefully. Additionally: any word on Frank Howard's health. Last I heard he wasn't doing too hot but I hope he's able to come out to the parade or do something to enjoy this. He should have won a title in D.C., too.

The fact that this happened - after such a long hiatus of no baseball in the District and with the product being so characteristically wretched for 7 years after returning - is a miracle. The fact that a sizeable number of powerful people did everything they could to keep this from happening, by moving two franchises and barring a new franchise from representing this area for 33 terrible, long seasons - makes this a miracle. Saturday's parade with be as cathartic as it will be joyus, I'm sure of it. I've waited my entire life for it. My father's waited his entire life for it. My grandfather, were he still with us, would have basically said the same thing (he was 3 when the Senators won it all in '24). This curse, at least in my mind, is over. I lived to see this and as dramatic as it sounds, I mean it with every fiber of my being: I can die happy.

My father went to Griffith Stadium and D.C./RFK to see the Senators. He was a sophomore at Howard when Bob Short moved the expansion team to Texas and it broke his heart. The Nats coming to town helped heal it but this, I imagine, will get it about as close to fully mended as can be.

It's been a long time coming. I legit cried when I heard the final out call. I have never cried with joy before but I cried like a baby in my apartment, listening to my radio. Oct. 30, 2019: the greatest night of my life.

Apparently, this song gave the '81 49ers good juju going into Super Bowl XVI and the sentiment remains the same so... This is it Make no mistake where you are

Let's go 1-0 tonight and force game 7, where anything is possible. There's never been a WS where the road team won every game? Great, this Nationals team is all about making history. Win tonight and let's get nuts on Wednesday.

Is there such a thing as anti-homefield advantage? Where the positive energy from a crowd actually works against a team's favor for one reason or another? Maybe the desire to make the hometown crowd is so strong that it makes individuals, despite all the cold blooded professionalism that one requires to make it in the majors, strain too hard for the fences. Maybe this team thrives so much on playing the underdog that when they're actually in a positive environment and expected to win, it all becomes too much to shoulder. I dunno. I'm just spitballing here because for them to play so well in Houston, then lay three giant eggs like this back in D.C. raises a lot of questions.

Listen, I'm a supporter of a good, clean, friendly field invasion after a championship with trophy presentations happening in the locker room but yeah - those days are over and they gotta prepare for a possible trophy presentation from a logistics standpoint. Besides, with how expensive those tickets are, there's no way anyone's gonna storm the field in their boating shoes and clean, crisp polo shirts, anyway.

Remember when they said D.C. wasn't a baseball town? I sure do. I remember hearing that for the first 14 years of my life. Now we've got a World'Series game in the District for the first time in 86 years. I cannot a time I felt more vindicated as a sports fans.

"Great teams aren't always great. They're just great when they have to be." - from the Super Bowl XIV Highlight Reel Let's go 1-0 tonight, folks.

How is this possible?!

"You have learned well, young ones." - - - I'll be heading to D.C. Saturday. After seeing the prices for standing room only tickets, I think I'll have to be satisfied with heading to a pub or a watch party near the stadium but I am ****in' hyped.

Angels in the Outfield this ****!

Today feels like Christmas Eve in October.

Ditch your TV and dust off your radio. If you've got a Nationals Radio Network affiliate nearby, tune into Charlie & Dave. If not, find your ESPN Radio affiliate because Dan Schulman's on the call and he is one of the best in the business.

Late to this but I will post this now because it genuinely makes me happy. And hopefully, we won't see it again until 2020

Also, this was brilliant

It's basically heresy.

Reminder that this team is the NFL's Uncle Rico.

About 15 minutes ago I screamed "WE WON THE PENNANT" in my apartment. I still can't believe I say that in all truth. But it is true. National League Champions.

It's just that not only did we not have baseball for a long time but when we did, it was almost uniformally terrible. Apart from those golden years between 1924 and 1933, there were only a handful of seasons either Senators franchises weren't abjectly wretched (1912 and 1969 immediately come to mind). That's more than a century of bad baseball or no baseball. And here we are now.

Yup - he was foremost in my mind when I mentioned those living. Oh Lord let us wrap this up tonight and not delay any additional discomfort for the Angelos family (at least those who were willfully involved in keeping baseball out of D.C.)

I know this is ancient history but if there is an afterlife, I hope Clark Griffith and Bob Short are both feeling the pain right now and it's only amplified every time we come closer to the World Series. I'm glad we've got baseball now and I'm even more glad we've got a winning baseball team (for once) but when i think about all those lost years when I could have been learning about the game through a hometown team, in person, at RFK Stadium with my father...nothing will ever make up for that. There is no excuse for this town to have gone 30+ seasons without Major League Baseball. None. I hope we secure the pennant tonight because of the joy it will bring to the players and fans and the whole area but there's a part of me that really hopes it'll sting for everyone, alive and dead, who did everything they could to prevent this from happening. They know who they are and I hope this really sucks for them.