debbie taylor and stan kasten, more good news straight ahead for the nats. boarding call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. grab your bag . it's on™west so our low fares stay low. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.  . >> debbie: welcome back to nationals park. nats on top. as we move to the third inenning. i am joined by team president stan kasten. what a great couple of day the washington nationals. just tell us what the last 24 hours were like for you. >> well, the end of it was great. the time before that was not so great. it was a lot of work, a lot of pressure, but a a lot of good dialogue back and forth, some not so good dialogue. didn't get serious until the last 40 minutes, and then it got real serious for a short amount of time. what we knew we had going for us, how much we wanted this kid, and how much this kid wanted to play baseball, so with all of those things happening, i thought we would get a deal, but wasn't sure until the very end. >> debbie: what does t

offered number one overall draft pick sfb strasburg a record-setting contract, yet team president stan kasten says there's a very real possibility strasburg won't sign. meanwhile o the field, the nationals' offense erupted for ten runs last night against the reds. elijah dukes went 2 for 4. the nats down the reds 10-6. >>> orioles hosting the angels. l.a. put up a five-spot in the third inning. >>> in golf at the pga championship, tiger woods has a two-shot lead going into today's final round. tiger is 14-0 when leading after 54 holes at a major tournament. >>> in football, michael vick made his eagles practice debut. vick worked out as the number three quarterback in the afternoon practice. the 29-year-old vick is eligible to play in the eagles' final two preseason games. >>> that's your sports minute. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >> next up, "reporter's notebook," an inside look at the stories affecting your community. we'll be back in 15 minutes with the latest on the top stories. for now, he's pat lawson muse. >> good morning. this is "reporter's notebook." i'm pat lawson muse. on

over the weekend, nationals' president stan kasten said a deal may not get done as the nats had reportedly made an offer between somewhere between $12 million and $17 million. strasburg's agents got boras, notorious for taking it to the wire. this is the guy, scott boras, that loves to play hardball. he's a super-agent in the sport. he would not be the first client to not sign and be forced to re-enter the draft a year later. scouts had been in love with strasburg. they say he's close to being major league ready right now. the nationals, no question, played above .500 ball since the all-star break and tonight nationals' players are also watching closely to see if strasburg signs before the midnight deadline. the nationals will play the rockies tomorrow night. >>> to baltimore we go. orioles trade add way veteran aubrey huff to detroit and in return the o's receive a minor ague piter for huff. tonight the orioles needed pitching after the angels pounded four home runs. back in the third, here's markakis. gets ahold of it. lines one to left field. adam jones would come around on that one. he

there you see our club president, stan kasten right there.hey look nice today. >> bob: well, rob, we wanted to break the news generally to you, but your parking pot is a little further from the gate than it was yesterday. and a breaking ball to elijah dukes. . >> rob: no worries, no worries, i have been doing lots of cardio. . >> bob: eh, you're in lot a, that's all that matters. elijah dukes in this series 1 for 5, hitless tonight, only 6 hits in this ball game. inin the three games against colorado the nationals have only given this high-powered offense 18 base hits. johnny beimel has now joined matt takely.   and the 0-2 to dukes. front door breaking ball that he lays off. >> rob: so far the only work that huston street and the bullpen is getting is a lot of throwing on the side. tyler clifford. >> bob: yeah. the nats need four batters where they can bat sean burnett, and he could be done after two innings anyway.   and dukes didn't really try that hard to get out of t

. >> mike ritz owe and stan kasten all smiles in the stands of the rockies games.ild pitch here. that allows this to be the game- winning run. washington has won just 10 of 36 against colorado. >>> usain bolt broke his own record to win. berly. no the mascot taking walker for a piggy back ride. he runs into the hurdle cart. both of them tax a tumble. big hugs. everybody is okay. no injuries so it is all right. >> not graceful. >>> straight ahead. at 6:0 our business beat, we'll talk about he price changes that affect starbucks. >> the latest quentin tarantino film takes liberties with the fact and we'll see if it lives up to the hype. we'll find out what kevin mccarthy has to say when he joins us live. get schooled in style at the jcpenney biggest bonus sale. tired of waiting for your savings? with an instant money coupon from jcpenney, get $10 off instantly when you spend $50. guy's arizona shorts are $9.99. kid's izod uniform polos are $7.99, pants are $12.99. juniors' tops and bottoms from arizona and decree are buy one, get one for $1.00. plus, night and day do

title today given him about 90 minutes ago here at nats park by the president of the nationals, stan kasten  . >> over the last year, year a half, mike has begun to take over more day-to-day duties in the front office. something that he hadn't done a lot of before he got here, but he has been working with over the last year and a half. then, of course, in march we had the turmoil that we had and we asked mike to step in and every job that we needed done got handled flawlessly and our operation continued seem leslie through today. since that time all mike has done is gained the respect of everyone in our organization, all the fans in dc, and baseball people throughout the country. so i couldn't be happier to be making this announcement today appointing my friend and colleague mike rizzo as gm. >>> i'm going to work diligently to make it work for us and, in the 2 1/2 years i have been here, they have really opened their hearts and their homes to me, and i, as mr. lerner said to me just the other day, that we're all family now. so i embrace that and i thank you ve

you heard stan kasten during the broadcast talk about the pope tick were of a strasburg.d jimenez going out there, basically a very good- hitting ball club. 8 innings strong was the difference tonight. >> rob: guys, colorado's starting pumping is much better than their bullpen, except for huston street, but they have a ball club with a bunch of guys who are going to hit between 15 and 25 home runs this year. they don't have an adam dunn, but they have a lot of guys who can hit the ball out of the ball clark when the they get playing time. >> you are correct as always, mr. carpenter. and we will see bob and rob tomorrow night in game two here. also the rocky have the second most runs scored bee n the league behind philadelphia. >> rob: well, they can hit. tulowitzkiin' tulowitzki has get hot, hawpe is a tough hitter, and helton anchorth that line-up. he is a guy who is just very tough. work this pitchers, and knows as much about hitting as anybody in the league. they have don baylor over there, former masn guy. they have four pitchers that have more than 10 wins, starting

you have to give credit to mike rizzo and stan kasten and positive things are starting to happen. >>he good thing is it is lannan tomorrow and you know he is going to bounce back from that five earned runs the last time out. >> i think so. he is the best pitcher we have on our staff. [ and game number two, florida marlins and the washington nationals. nats have now won seven of their last 10 and finally snapped this strig against the florida marlins dating back to september 23rd of twite. we'll look for two in a row against florida starting tomorrow night. the nationals take out the marlins with six in the eighth, the final is 6-4. we'll see you tomorrow night at the ballpark! and trade talks. >> plaxico burress, good news for antonio pierce. find out the latest on the two stars and their legal issues for both players have had to endure for a month. >> >> we are helping stay current here on espnews, alongside mike yam. i'm anish shroff. we were sort of talking among ourselves in the news room. how do you explain albert pujols going into the slump? since matt halladay arrives. apparen

followed by a q and a with president stan kasten and mike rizzo. if you have a ticket to friday's game, now folks, i have seen the plans for tomorrow. there's going to be a big stage over by third base, the players will be sitting in the lower bowl over at the third base side and at 2:00 it is really going to be something. we'll carry it live on masn if you can't be here. but if you can i promise you it will be worth it. >> bob: cristian guzman grounded out his first time up.   six ground-ball outs byham el  against the first 10 batters. and i think it's easy to see why the rockies are successful.   they have pitchers who keep t ball down. and when you have to play half your games at coors field. guzman on a pitch up, he'll be overpowered and fly out easily. the rockies are nine games over .500 at home this year, 32-23.   jason marquis was master fu last night.   and ubaldo jimenez who thro here on tues