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so the Nationals, DC's new baseball team, open their season today at 3 against the Phillies in Philadelphia. The Nats played an exhibition game here yesterday against the Mets, but lost. I'm looking forward to today's game though, which I will be following at ESPN.com. The Post and ESPN also have some good articles about the team, like a really positive, if kind of basic, one by Tim Kurkjian, and one about ace Livan Hernandez, who seems like a good guy. I'm not so sure he should be bragging about the Silver Slugger award though, which means he was the best-hitting pitcher last year. That's kind of like being the tallest kicker in the NFL, or the goalie with the longest name. Not exactly an extremely important award. And anyway, you can't beat Mike Hampton for best hitting pitcher, he has 7 home runs one year. That's more than many shortstops.

But anyway. There's also a short photo slideshow of the Nationals game yesterday.

And I liked Tom Boswell's column as well.

And the rest of the Post's good coverage is here.