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With the debut of the Washington Nationals, a professional baseball team is representing Washington, D.C., for the first time since Sept. 30, 1971. more	Washington Post staff writer Barry Svrluga talks baseball in the nation's capital -- every Wednesday. more
Barry Svrluga	Baseball, a Celebration.
Barry Svrluga: Welcome back, Nationals fans. This bunch never ceases to befuddle me. When we last spoke, they were en route to losing five in a row and seven of eight, had a slew of injuries, couldn't score many runs, and a summer as an also-ran seemed to be upon us. more	Baseball As America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game, developed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (National Geographic Society, 2002 more

Warts and all, it's going to be some postseason

There are no perfect teams, which distinguishes this season from last. Last October, everyone had a pretty good idea which team was going to win it all. And the Yankees did, in a World Series sweep of the Padres. Ho hum.