Sportswriters as Imaginary Friends

We were one of the thousands of Washingtonians this weekend who tried (unsuccessfully in our case) to purchase tickets to Opening Day of the Washington Nationals on April 14th, and so it was with great interest that we read Harry Jaffe’s write-up of the face of the Post’s Nationals coverage.

Barry Svrluga, formerly tasked with covering college basketball, is forging a new path as the paper’s hometown baseball writer–a task that could take him away from his wife of last June, Post Metro Writer Susan Kinzie, for 170 nights this year.

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