that was the one thing fletcher had last night. as a former pitcher, can you -- i can work with that. 3-2 if it's anywhere close, you've got to be hacking. we've been complaining about the zone all year it's been tight. it's tough to complain the opposite way when it's loose. >> johnny: fouls it out. 1-2 in the nationals 3rd baseman after a strikeout last night. >> rob: it's been a frustrating year for everybody. they've got to keep plugging away. it was a well pitched ballgame last night. >> johnny: it seemed it wasn't that long enough we were talking about the nationals batting exploding. now the pitching has caught up and the bats are silent these days. >> rob: yes. that's going to happen. peace and valleys for the bullpen and starting rotation. the really solid teams are consistent throughout the year winning close game, saving a lot of close games. >> johnny: zimmermann fouls trough 2-2 pitch. take a look at that time guys that lead the national league. orlando hudson 74. a couple of players are tied with 71. they're among the

pitch outside and it's one ball and a strike. >> rob: andy fletcher has home plate tonight.nerous. we can't just say that that was again dunn. he gave that same strike zone to detwiler, cueto, he has been very consistent all night. so as a hitter you have to go up there knowing he has been a little loose on the engineers tonight, if it's way outside, a breaking ball, he is dunn. >> johnny: david weathers the third cincinnati pitcher, willie harris witch outside.   the last 10 years d weathers leads all pitchers with 668 appearances. >> rob: a lot of work. >> johnny: a lot of work in milwaukee. >> rob: i was just leaving, i that the sat that who will last year and retired, he was coming up in '96, he would be part of that, you know, florida team great guy. great guy to have on your team. one of the nicer players you'll ever come across and be consistent at this level for 20 years pitching in the big leagues. >> he strikes out elijah dukes, back to back strikeouts by dunn and by dukes and this is the high point of the inning on guz

. >> fletcher paid a compliment. he said, man, i thought we had a reamy good bullpen. you're bull opinion has been matching us the entire series. that's the way you want to be recognized if you're a bullpen. >> they did a good job in new york. >> that's how they opened their show, talked about our bullpen. >> wow, why didn't you tell me, i would have watched two balls and two strikes, low ball 3. top of the second, blue jays six, nats two. rios will have a chance to possibly put this game out of reach for toronto. it's all about the jump that you get off the pitcher and it's about being heads up and into every pitch type player. situational baseball. >> it's so rare to have two players and the entire career spent with one team, and each had chances to go elsewhere. bijio was a catcher and then went to second base. >> he also played center field. >> played center field, 3,060 hits. >> he was here two years ago with the astros over at rfk the week before he announced he was retiring. >> one ball and two strikes to alex rios. got him looking on a front door breaking ball.

. >> your cousin is darren fletcher who played with the expo franchise and is part of the blue jays. what's that like? >> me and him hung out on the field. i got to give him a tour, and it was fun having family here. >> the grass is always greener for john on his side of the field. back to you. >> well, the ground crew getting the field in condition and ready for this ball game today. nats have won the first two. we'll be back with more right after this. ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. >>> mike, everyone has seen great fastball, but do you feature anything else? >> i throw a slider and cutter, maybe a rare occasion a change-

. >> rob: i was talking to darren fletcher today talking about hanrahan, how can this kid throw 95 andrying to blow by team. >> bob: game tied. 95 mile-per-hour fastball. scott rolen turned it around. >> rob: the location was just terrible. still have to locate it. >> bob: that run charged to kip well and a win taken away from ross detwiler. >> rob: well, now, you have to do damage control right here. pitch location is going to be up in the zone, very hittable. rolen did not try to crush the ball, put it in play for a base hit and tie the ballgame. >> bob: scott rolen, 2-for-4 tonight. here is adam lind. and they are going up hacking. >> rob: that's a very good hitting ball club. you knew it was a matter of time they would put a couple of singles, maybe doubles together, get themselves back in the ballgame. another line drive knocked down by alberto gonzalez and that keeps scott rolen from going to third. so the blue jays are hitting the ball hard against wells and hanrahan here in the 8th after that leadoff pinch hit by bautista. alex rios now with the lead run at second base. alex ri

andy fletcher, angel hernandez at second and scott barry umpiring at second, scott mclellan down at third-27 on the road, 15-13. haven't won a game in this park. 0-3 here in rfk stadium.  there's one quick out  first inning. >> rob: you bring up a great point. there was one year we went to san francisco, that's when you played the same team in your division 18 times, a nice play by ryan zimmerman, tough hop off the dirt in front of home plate, plenty of time. >> johnny: boy, zimmerman just having another tremendous year. especially that hitting streak he had where nobody could get him out. >> rob: 30 straight games is just a phenomenal hitting streak, and it wasn't just a cheapy, 1 for 4 every night, the last 10 games he raised his batting average 60 points and he was hitting the heck out of the ball right at the end. and getting back to your, the reds having trouble here, we were 0-9 in three different trips into san francisco at candlestick park. so sometimes it's just, you know, certain ball park, a certain team has your number, right now they d

one of his posthumous book, cancel your own goddamn subscription, was a run in he had with arthur fletcherhey were arguing by mail, and one of slicken share's letters, referred to national review or the national inquirer or whatever you call the magazine. bill wouldn't have it. in his reply he said how would you like it if i wrote beer arthur, or whatever you call yourself, if you ever need to slap down a pulitzer prize-winning story, that is the way to do it. this is what it is like and cut it out. just a brilliant little arabesque in one sentence. another of the things to recover about bill was his passion for talent. he looks for it everywhere. he would go to the big names, he offered $5,000 a year to be a columnist for national review. unless i get -- unless you get much richer or i get much for which i am afraid will happen sooner, i can't take you up on this offer. but he also grabbed it when he saw unknowns. he hired gary mills out of the jesuit seminary, he had left the seminary, never written anything for anyone. bill was the first to right back, the beginning of his career. he hi

this is michael fletcher's story this morning. he writes that the chairman of the council of economic advisers said of the prison is for concerned about the forecasts the white house has assumed a posture of watchful waiting, adding there will be big increases in stimulus spending in the fall and early next year. if you get to the end of this year or early next and employment is still limping back, then we have to do serious thinking about whether there might be special problems and the labour market require targeted intervention. he also writes a year in "the washington post" but economists agree for the most part that the economy would have been in worse shape if the stimulus package had not been enacted. reading, pa., good morning. caller: good morning. in that our area anin berks county we have all large population, also in north hampton, and a large influx from new york in the polkas. -- it is in thepoconos. our unemployment rate does not reveal how many people are truly out of work. that is something we will look at in the f

point man on north korea and my friend and constituent ambassador stephen bosworth, the dean of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university. but also. expert panel of witnesses who together have more than 100 years of experience in dealing with a challenge to that we face in north korea. north korea's test of the long-range ballistic missile last april followed by its second nuclear test last month are frankly reckless and irresponsible acts that do nothing to enhance north korea's security. i was pleased to see that last night in new york the permanent five members of the u.n. security council agreed to speak with one voice and tal north korea and that its conduct is unacceptable. the draft security council resolution which we expect to be voted on soon imposing a sweeping new arms embargo on north korea and also bans financial transactions linked to its north korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. a significantly it calls upon member states to inspect all cargo to and from north korea on the high seas and seaports and airports. if countries have reason to

and they are still barking at andy fletcher from that national's budget. well for rob dibble and debbie taylor i'm johnny holiday, the nationals and reds continue this series tomorrow. nats extra, visit nats for all the news from the nationals. this has been a presentation of masn. hangs on to beat washington 3- 2. stay tuned for nats extra postgame coming up right now.    it didn't s low, you can't, there is no way you can call that pitch a strike. that may be the, i'm not one to say much about the strike zone but that pitch right there was solo there is no way you can swing at that ball. that ball looks like it is on the dirt. i don't know if he got blocked out but i'm going on record that is brutal. >> we start in the fifth inning where the game broke open for the reds, they got something going against detwiler, you had a tight 1-1 game goin' on. >> turning point of the ball game, couple of walks in that inning, as gonzalez doubles to left. playing the opposite way. have we not been over playing him

i went to the fletcher school of law and diplomacy which prepares one to be neither a lawyer nor a diplomat. [laughter] >> and so i'm, in fact, an economist who studies energy policy. >> the truth in accreditation. >> it's certainly -- if you take that in great inflation, i'm not worth much. the point of my testimony is largely distillable from 17 pages down to about three points. energy is a commodity and price is what matters. expectation set at a moment of economic weakness are unlikely to be valid when things return to normal and the question of what happens next depends on realistic expectations about costs. the energy sources that look the most expensive today like nuclear power and clean coal could be the cheapest on a per unit environment. i treat at in some length of my testimony the limitations of models. this is, of course, somewhat of a sensitive topic given that i make my living making models. but i do think it's important to remember that there are approximations and not guarantees. attempts to quantify the complex and multistage interactions of dynamic individuals and corpora