Maybe they call it “Beast Mode.” You have seen the Nationals’ first baseman Michael Morse and his now-famous t-shirt during MASN’s Nats Xtra postgame show interviews, haven’t you?
...Guys like Werth, Rick Ankiel, Danny Espinosa, Laynce Nix, Ian Desmond and Morse play baseball not to avoid contact, but to seek it out. This is the kind of team the Nationals are becoming. Pants are ripped up, there is mud and clay over all their white uniforms after nine innings with these guys.
...I felt it last season when I walked through the Reds clubhouse in Cincinnati while working the sidelines for MASN.
A certain toughness and never-say-die attitude permeated from each player. They were respectful and greeted you politely. But they definitely gave off the feeling that they felt they were better than the team the were playing and they were going to prove that on the field.
Joey Votto, Gomes and Johnny Cueto displayed this confidence almost on their sleeves. I get that sense with Gomes now that he is a National and Tuesday’s collision at the plate is an example of the Nationals “beast mode” in full effect.
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1. Double-Spin Mechanic Posted: August 03, 2011 at 02:49 PM (#3891710)All I know about this Kerr fella is that one of us doesn't know what "permeated" means.
Cliches do not get better by qualifying them in ways that draw attention to the fact that they are not literal.
"Skirts, sand, men, Georgia spelling of 'whine', etc." - S.H.
(P.S. I'm sitting Beachy today out of fear of Morse, et al.)
How's that working out for them?
It worked. Gomes turned an easy force out into a run.
No he didn't. Freeman's high throw that pulled Ross off the dish generated the run. Gomes did nothing but endanger the health of David Ross by sliding way inside intentionally looking to do him harm.
When Gomes committed to his slide, he wasn't able to predict where Ross would end up or whether a "take out" slide was needed to prevent a return throw to first to get the batter. It was a perfectly acceptable play - this is professional baseball, after all.
Yes, it is. And a professional player needs to drop a knee on Gomes' skull to explain to him the cost of intentionally endangering a player.
He is accusing you of an inconsistency of thought. FIGHT!
a playerone of my precious Atlanta Braves.FTFY.
Is that anything like Depeche Mode?
Only an idiot would attack me on grounds of inconsistency with regards to the Braves and think it was going to leave a mark.
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