Bryce Harper has yet to sign on the dotted line with the Nationals, and the deadline for drafted players to sign with their respective teams is tonight at midnight. Given the experience, who better to weigh in on a current first pick holdout than last year’s first pick: Stephen Strasburg.

Hope you enjoyed that light-hearted “Miss Universe/Miss Iowa ‘controversy’,” because with any luck for the Washington Nationals, there won’t be another like it for a while.

When the Washington Nationals’ Miguel Batista accidentally offended Miss Iowa, Katherine Connors the other day, we suppose it was inevitable that Connors would eventually throw out a first pitch to Batista at Nationals Park.

Everyone wants to see Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg pitch, so when he gets scratched from a start, everyone’s mad. Even his replacement, Miguel Batista, gets that – but accidentally sullied the title of Miss Iowa in expressing his understanding.