Stephen Strasburg

[Fman99]

Going to go see him tomorrow night here in Syracuse, probably one of my few remaining chances to do so as pundits all guessing he gets called up sometime in the next 3 weeks or so.

We scored free tickets through Fboy's tee ball league. Going to tailgate first with the coach and some of the other parents.

[metirish]

Have fun, expecting a full fman scouting report...............on the skirt at the game.

[Frayed Knot]

You may be witness to his final minor league start.
The Nats are being coy about exactly when he'll debut but are hinting that it's to come during the June 8-10 series v Pittsburgh (at home naturally). Don't want to get too specific so as to better sell speculative tickets to ALL those games.
Meanwhile, if he does get one more in AAA it'll likely be against Buffalo sometime around the June 3 weekend.

[bmfc1]

This is a big story in DC as fans either assumed, or were mislead (depending on who you believe), to think that Strasburg would make his debut on June 4. The place is nearly sold-out and fans feel they should have been told sooner than this week when he would pitch. Some think that this was done on purpose to get a gate.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2010/05/report_stephen_strasburg_to_de.html

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/05/the_june_4_near-sellout.html

(For me, I wouldn't go for free--I was offered freebies by the Susan G. Komen people as it's Susan G. Komen night and I'm running in their 5K the next day
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The Mets are playing when the Nationals are playing so there's no way, even for free, that I'd watch other teams when the Mets are in action.)

[bmfc1]

Strasburg will make his debut on June 8, at home, against Pittsburgh.

[Gwreck]

Assuming the Nationals maintain a 5-pitcher rotation, and no rainouts/schedule changes, this June 8 start would mean Strasburg would be on schedule to miss the Mets when they play in Washington on July 1-4.

[G-Fafif]

bmfc1 wrote: Strasburg will make his debut on June 8, at home, against Pittsburgh.

I'll bet Nationals fans who view visits from the Pirates the way Mets fans (and fans of all teams that aren't the Nats) view visits from the Nationals are changing their tune a lot.