BREAK UP THE F-ING NATIONALS

I'd hope it isn't. It took him awhile to come around last year as well. Same thing happened last year with Ryan Zimmerman and Sean Burnett, hopefully some of the other guys learned about hiding an injury and how it's detrimental to the whole team… But who knows. We aren't too far back in the division. I hope once we get everyone back and healthy that the ship gets…righted… No one seems to be able to do anything in that 2nd spot. Such a shame because Span has been an on base machine.

PRESSURE

vansmack wrote:
There's an easy fix for the Nats offensive woes - call up Rendon, and have him play second base, like he has been in Double A ball.  He's hitting .350 down there - even if he hits .240 in the bigs, it's .100 points better than Espinosa.

Clearly, Espinosa's shoulder is worse than he's leading on.

this is going to happen.

chaz wrote:

vansmack wrote:
There's an easy fix for the Nats offensive woes - call up Rendon, and have him play second base, like he has been in Double A ball.  He's hitting .350 down there - even if he hits .240 in the bigs, it's .100 points better than Espinosa.

Clearly, Espinosa's shoulder is worse than he's leading on.

this is going to happen.

i keep thinking this but then i see another "danny's too good a player to give up on" quote from davey or rizzo and i dont even know

i dont doubt that danny's got potential, but its becoming pretty obvious that hes never gonna reach it here, and that excuse seems to be running out of time. its not really a slump if this is how hes played for over a year now

unfortunately its been a golden opportunity for lombo to step up and take the starting spot but hes been pretty bad too

Not what you need.

"With two outs and the tying run at first, you have to play the outfield so the ball doesn't go over your head," Soriano told the newspaper in Spanish. "It may not have been a catchable ball. But if we're positioned the right way, there might have been a different outcome.

"With two outs, I could tell my 4-year-old son, 'You know where you need to play,' and he would have positioned himself better. It's not an excuse, and I'm not speaking badly about anybody, but I think that's how you play the game."

Maybe he's got a thing about walls now.

Today's Nats/Giants game was one if the best I've seen all season. I'm a sucker for good pitching and great defense…

Saw the 9th and 10th.  Heard Harper had a nice play in the outfield…a homer and a double that led to the winning run.  Not a bad day.

chaz wrote:
Saw the 9th and 10th.  Heard Harper had a nice play in the outfield…a homer and a double that led to the winning run.  Not a bad day.

Two nice catches, actually.  He was the difference maker on offense for the Nat's too, for certain.

they were great catches. the sliding one was more impressive, but the one up near the wall had to be the bigger moment overall. cool to see. the two runs scored were even cooler

i want to rag on the nats bullpen for giving up another lead but then i realize the offense has given them such pathetic leads to work with and its hard to blame storen and co for not being as perfect as theyve had to be. this team is a mess but theyre staying a notch or two above full-on trainwreck status, so it should be quite a summer.

that last out was brutal. this road trip was awful, but coming home on a win is pretty nice.

vansmack wrote:
Today's Nats/Giants game was one if the best I've seen all season. I'm a sucker for good pitching and great defense…

Caught the final 3 innings. God I hate the Giants. Glad they're coming back home so I can watch some games.

Free wings at Duffy's if you wear your Nats gear tomorrow during happy hour.

Dang.

Got free club level seats for the game last night. The rain wasn't so bad but the wind was WHIPPING real fucking hard. Got there at around 7:15 and it was pouring down and slapping rain all over the place. After it died down around 7:40 or so it was cool but then got real muggy. The game was fun. I really REALLY hate how many O's fans there were/are, but they were silenced by the abundance of taters.

That Karns kid got a standing ovation when he walked off after his 5 innings. Was excited to see everyone who hit the taters. LaRoche, Shark and TMo! Need them bats to swing hard. Excited for the rest of the series. Hopefully we can keep it up tonight ESPECTIALLY with JZimm on the hill tonight.

Zimmerman great; Zimmermann not so much.

Game 4…..  Who says interleague sucks?

Definitely didn't think they'd allow 7 runs to lose that game in the last 3 innings. That was upsetting. I could handle Espi being out of the line-up for a bit longer… Hopefully we get another solid outing from Dan Haren tonight and keep the bats awake.

Shemp wrote:
Zimmermann not so much.

He was probably distracted by the death of his good friend and the man that saved his career - Dr. Lewis Yocum.

vansmack wrote:

Shemp wrote:
Zimmermann not so much.

He was probably distracted by the death of his good friend and the man that saved his career - Dr. Lewis Yocum.

Or maybe his cat died.

Three out of four. Verrrry Niiiiice.

After Wednesday's loss:

?I thought it was a routine fly ball,? Zimmermann said. ?And then I saw T-Mo drifting to the track. I think some of their numbers a little bit escalated because of the ballpark, but they?re a good hitting ballclub.?

and

?Well, that one hurt,? Davey Johnson said. ?This ballpark will eat you alive.?

After Thursday's loss:

Ian Desmond:  ?Not making an excuse, but our first base coach is on maternity leave.?

For not making excuses they seem to be making a lot of excuses.

Desi did say after that it still doesn't warrant excuses and that they just need to make adjustments.

Shutout again?! I'm sick of seeing this team struggle on the offensive front, even with Bam Bam and Werth out. Hopefully they can level out against the Barves…