Thirty-four year old Billy Wagner owns a pair of farms just outside of town, on which he raises a few dozen alpacas. Wagner’s had to pick up a second job, though: pitcher. The Mets signed him yesterday in a four-year, $43M deal, the Asbury Park Press reports. The Virginia native was with the Phillies, but the hotshot pitcher became interesting to a number of teams recently, with the Mets winning the bidding war. I don’t have any love for the Mets, but if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, they’re cool by me.
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- Check out the ISS overhead at 6:12 PM tonight, 11/20. #
- City Council has put the Eastern Connector on hold, what with VDOT having no money or prospect of it. #
- ATO has signed Paul McCartney. For more on what's going on, I recommend John Colapinto's June 2007 article in the New Yorker. #
- Danielson insists that he's still the developer of the Landmark Hotel. Don't these guys talk to each other? #
- Sean Tubbs live-blogged City Council. That's a first, I think. Double points to the first councilor to leave comments on a live-blog during the meeting. #
- CHO says not to count on them for dumping silt—they have no idea how long it'll be until they extend their runway. #
- Construction on the downtown hotel has been halted. Owner Halsey Minor says the lending bank is to blame. Let's just throw a drape over it and hope nobody notices. Update: Well, this just got weird. #
- Jim Duncan commissioned this clever local real estate mapping application. #
- The $37M dam that turned out to be a $70M dam is now a $90M dam. #
- Local blogger Kristen Taylor has started an interesting new website, Knight Pulse, a new-media meta-site, with the Knight Foundation. #
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/faints
psst this is a sports story on CVillenews? OMG!!
I wrote it just for you.
Merry Christmas!
don’t push your religious agenda on me mister!
Happy Festivus!
“It’s a Festivus MIRACLE!”
Billy Wagner is a really nice guy and helps the UVA baseball team out. Still that is alot of money for throwing a ball very, very fast. I hope he saves lots of games for the Mets, they really need him.
Happy Festivus everybody!
Looking forward to that first Ryan Zimmerman HR off of Wagner. And the one after that, and the one after that, and …
From today’s DP by Whitelaw Reid “With the holidays fast approaching, Cosmo Kramer may have called what transpired last night at University Hall “a festivus miracle.”
Sport story: Festivus I think somebody been reading cvillenews.
Waldo, are you in on this?
It’s related to that Charlottesville media conspiracy that I’m occasionally accused of being part of. We have a general plot to tighten the lihbrul media grip on the nation, squeeze out the religious right, ban Christmas and replace it with Festivus.
But I’ve said too much.
haha, you know i was kidding about the whole Christmas thingie!
Hope that Ryan Zimmerman hits a lot of homers too next year, Big Al. But wish even more that MLB gets the ownership issue settled so that the team can compete on an even basis. They made a great run this past season but just didnt have the players to keep it up. And already they have lost one of their key pitchers(Esteban Loiaza) to Oakland. Thats pretty bad. Its one thing not to be able to compete with the Yankees financially, but a fiscally-limited team like the A’s? What Selig and Co. has been doing is unfair.
While I was delighted to see the White Sox win the World Series this year, I’d like to point out that Washington has not hosted a post-season since 1933. At least Chicago has done that since then(1935,1938,1945,1959,1983,1984,1989,1993,1998,2000,2003) even if a team from there didnt win the whole thing until this year. Of course the city was without a team 1972-2004.
I grew up with the original Washington Senators (now the Twins) in the 50s and have always hoped one day to see a team from Washington go to the World Series. Maybe next year….(or the year after).
Yep - Bud and his cohorts are greedy idiots, and the Nationals need and deserve an owner - which was promised by the All-Star break last July. Once an owner is found, there’s still the issue of getting a stadium built in D.C. - which is by no means a sure thing. The NoVa suburbs aren’t out of the picture yet.