Thursday, June 06, 2013
Schultz: Strasburg injury reaffirms Nats blew it last year
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The Big Train to The Karma Train…Washington has it all!
Read More...We’re barely into June and the Braves already hold an eight-game lead over the Washington Nationals, the team that had been given the most likely chance to win the National League East and the pennant. This doesn’t guarantee that the Braves are going to win the East. But it does somewhat reaffirm how dumb the Nationals were to all but drop kick a potential World Series season last year.
...The Strasburg effect? Nothing is certain, but ...
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1 2 >It's just unfortunate that we don't get any more opportunities to beat your sorry asses this year. Go back to the north side and try to get better, you punk losers.
(The icing, of course, was Adam LaRoche smacking that lefty's pitch into the bleachers...)
That was pathetic.
That would only make sense if every other team in the NL was stealing their signs too.
And why pick on the Cubs? They're just following the Nats strategy of sucking as hard as they can to get a first round pick, and then celebrating their scouting genius when they shock everyone by discovering a hidden gem like Bryce Harper.
Good point. The Cubs line-up last night looked just like the Yankees.
It's silly whiny loser talk, and very unbecoming at the pro level. Jamie Quirk should either go coach Little League ball or make himself an appointment to see a mental therapist if he can't handle himself in a more professional manner.
"If they want to quit competing and forfeit, then fine. But we're going to keep competing."
This is professional baseball, not some cupcake mismatch in college football where having 3rd stringers run the ball is an acceptable mode of reigning in a blowout.
I think McCoy is right though, the Cubs have to be pretty frustrated. It's been a lousy year and that's going to boil over at times at this point.
Class, ladies and gentlemen!
(to be fair, it's accurate "class" - this season has certainly been driven by Bryce Harper and eight midgets in the lineup, and Strasburg and a pack of bums in the rotation)
The Nats' starting lineup averages 27.4 years old, and their key bench players are all under 30.
The 5 members of the Nats' pitching rotation are all between 23 and 28 years old, and when Strasburg gets shelved, his replacement (Lannan) is 27.
And the oldest key member of the bullpen is 29.
I hate that "don't show up the other team" nonsense anyway, but a 5 run lead? You'd have to be dopey to think that meant take your foot off the gas.
Nitwits.
You must be out of your damned mind.
I didn't know it was possible to have an OPS+ of -25!
In Vitters' defense, the only 2 guys in the PCL who are younger than him and had a higher OPS were Rizzo and Wil Myers. Even though he's taken forever to get this far and has been exceptionally terrible in Chicago (and to my eye looks like a AAAA hitter), he's still got a chance at a career.
Which is not to say that Wieters wouldn't look a lot better in a Cubs uniform.
Umm...because the Cubs were screaming from the dugout and throwing at players because they were losing?
I think a wonderful response by the Nats to the Cubs a-holery would be to start saying terrible things about the Colorado Rockies and throwing baseballs at Paul Spoljaric, wherever the hell he is. Seriously, has a team ever gotten into a brouhaha, a rhubarb, dare I say a melee with somebody other than the team they are playing?
1) This is my absolute pet peeve..football, baseball, whatever...that teams are supposed to know and abide by the unwritten rules about when you should stop playing and curl up in a ball. I don't have to bring up the game the Nats lost with a nine run lead to believe that, as Herm Edwards said, you play to win the game. I'm sure if Werth intentionally struck out and the Cubs rallied, they would have been gentlemen and stopped scoring after they got within a run. And this thinking is continually endorsed by ex-players, not all of them as much of a posturing moron as Jamie Quirk.
2) The idiotic comments about DC fans being losers....for years, we listen to Red Sox this and Phillies that and we own your ballpark, etc and now that the Nationals have a good team..radio silence is required. In my experience Nationals fans are as well behaved as any in baseball, and less obnoxious than most. How can a Cub fan call anyone a loser?
Desmond
Thank you; you just nailed right on the head what irks me most of all. For most of the better part of seven years the Nationals got nothing but grief around here. Now that we in D.C finally have a legitimately good ballclub we can be proud of, the haters get all pissy if we dare to be happy about it. Speaking for myself only, if anyone doesn't like it that's just too damn bad. What goes around comes around.
Winner, winner,chicken dinner!
Oh please, let's not go all martyr-y. There has been a grand total of ONE hater in this thread with respect to the Nats.
Others may complain, Joey, but they're complaining about you being an #######, not about Nats fans or the Nats in general.
The problem is how you show you're proud of the team. It gives off a very insecure vibe. Like I said in the other thread you guys need to adopt a swagger and what you're showing isn't that.
What "guys"? Joey is the only one who acts like Joey.
Most fans have swagger when they are dominating, but they start pissing their pants as though as the going starts to get a little tough. Just take a look at some of the A.L. East/Yankees threads here the last few days.
Also, in somewhat related news, I think Nats fans are f**king tired of hearing everyone else in the nation say, as if with one unified voice, that the team is criminally deranged, dooming its postseason, and "letting down the fans" by shutting down Strasburg. Just the other day I heard some idiot on a national radio show say that "players won't want to sign and play with the Nationals for years to come" because the FO has apparently 'betrayed' the club with this sinister, unplanned, surprise move (that was announced in November of last year). It's just so painfully stupid, and you get the sense that people think the only reason the Nationals have succeeded is because of Strasburg.
I'm reasonably certain that nobody gives a flying #### what you think is the "proper" attitude for Nats fans.
Christ, the things people will argue about.
In a lot of contexts, you can in fact be sure that you will win. In baseball obviously there's no clock, so there aren't many scenarios like that. In professional baseball obviously there aren't a lot of total mismatches, so it's even rarer. But even in MLB, teams constantly cease to play hard in the 8th or 9th innings. Nothing disrespectful about it.
But in the 5th inning? Crazy.
As a Reds fan, I would make the Nats slight favorties in that matchup. The Reds have some lineup issues. I strongly suspect that either the Reds or the Nats will lose in the division series.
I suspect about 98% of the people living inside the Beltway believe the same thing, thanks to what is probably the worst big city local sports coverage in the entire country.
Fun fact: as I got in the car to go to work yesterday morning, I turned on the radio and the very first thing I heard the hosts talking about was celebrity sex tapes. I swear I'm not making this up. This is just how the local sports media in this town is.
Christ, the things people will argue about.
So you are complaining about the things people will argue about while arguing with me about what what I think Nats fans should. You don't see the flaw in that?
There's lots of funny stuff on BBTF, but this one still has me chuckling.
it's funny the things you see when you watch a team regularly. I've made a point to watch the reds 2 or 3 times and they look tough as nails to me.
The remaining 12" of headlines/story are given over to the daily musings of the Redskins management on whether or not the 3rd string tight end has a chance to break out this year.
Washington loves them some Redskins.
Washington barely acknowledges baseball.
Hopefully this will cahnge as the Nationals succeed in the coming months and years.
But it does get old when the Deadskins get all the press - and top billing on the nightly newscasts - regardless of the Nat's success
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