As Pokey pointed out in the comments of my last entry, the Nationals have assembled the Boone Triumvirate. Bret Boone, at age 38, has come out of retirement to come to camp with the Nats this year. The tone of Ladson's article about it is a bit more laudatory than I really feel like Bret Boone deserves, but perhaps the two brothers and their father can form some sort of Voltron-esque creature that'll be an absolute beast coming off the bench in late game situations? I don't know. But I guess if you're a Boone, you've got a shot in DC.
In other news, Paulie Dukes finally talked. Sorta. He apologized for "mistakes in judgment" and read a statement which included his assertion that he really supports what the Mitchell report is doing, and admires the cleansing of baseball. So if he was going to own up to it and support the report, why did it take this long? I don't know, I still don't feel good about it, but at least he said something. He was asked why he waited so long to talk about it, and remarked that he had other things he wanted to focus on. Uh huh.
Also, the Nats have made an offer to Odalis Perez. The 31 year old lefty has been up, down, and everywhere in between since coming into the league. An All Star in 2002 and largely ineffective in his most recent year and change in Kansas City, Perez could be a decent addition to the rotation if going back to the NL would drop his ERA down into the 4.x range again. I still like Fogg better, but I wouldn't mind seeing Perez in red and white.
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