BREAK UP THE F-ING NATIONALS

vansmack wrote:
7 out of 10.  These were tough:

ESPN's Do you know the baseball rules?

8/10!

I missed the first one and last one. Gah.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
8/10!

I missed the first one and last one. Gah.

I too missed the first one.

I missed 6 - I've seen an error called that way; I've never seen it the way described there.

And I missed 8.

I've seen Scioscia do #10.  I was pretty shocked.

This team is frustrating to watch. I got tickets for Thursday AND Sunday, I hope I see a win.

Rendon has an on base streak of 16 games in a row, did I hear that? And Desi is up to 19 game streak for being on base? Lord.

I see the record this season and my opinion that they shouldn't have shut down Starsburg last year seems to vindicated. It would be funny if last year is the only year the Nationals have a winning record with Starburg on the team and he leaves via free agency at the earliest moment.

atomicfront wrote:
I see the record this season and my opinion that they shouldn't have shut down Starsburg last year seems to vindicated. It would be funny if last year is the only year the Nationals have a winning record with Starburg on the team and he leaves via free agency at the earliest moment.

I think you could more easily look at Stras and say the team's management was vindicated in shutting him down. He is a pretty fragile guy. If they had pitched him more I think they might have ended his career. Moreover, Stras pitching is no guarantee.. I don't think he's lights out or a guarantee that had they pitched him at that late point- by which he'd had at least one fairly horrid start anyways- they'd have won…. the problem with the bullpen blowing that game would not have been resolved.

atomicfront wrote:
I see the record this season and my opinion that they shouldn't have shut down Starsburg last year seems to vindicated. It would be funny if last year is the only year the Nationals have a winning record with Starburg on the team and he leaves via free agency at the earliest moment.

incredible deliberation, thanks for sharing.

"starburg"

atomicfront wrote:
I see the record this season and my opinion that they shouldn't have shut down Starsburg last year seems to vindicated. It would be funny if last year is the only year the Nationals have a winning record with Starburg on the team and he leaves via free agency at the earliest moment.

It sucks that the season ended and your opinion is totally correct and that this was Strasburgs final season with the Nats. Shucks.

Why is tommy front always so right.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
I see the record this season and my opinion that they shouldn't have shut down Starsburg last year seems to vindicated. It would be funny if last year is the only year the Nationals have a winning record with Starburg on the team and he leaves via free agency at the earliest moment.

It sucks that the season ended and your opinion is totally correct and that this was Strasburgs final season with the Nats. Shucks.

Why is tommy front always so right.

No his final season to help the team win a playoff series.  You have your window you have to go for it. 

atomicfront wrote:

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
I see the record this season and my opinion that they shouldn't have shut down Starsburg last year seems to vindicated. It would be funny if last year is the only year the Nationals have a winning record with Starburg on the team and he leaves via free agency at the earliest moment.

It sucks that the season ended and your opinion is totally correct and that this was Strasburgs final season with the Nats. Shucks.

Why is tommy front always so right.

No his final season to help the team win a playoff series.  You have your window you have to go for it. 

Sarcasm is lost on you.

Ian Desmond. This fucking guy.

Bang!  Zoom!

fuck rendon is good. jordan too.

and fuck werth is totally lost.

the dreaded wrist injury. i'm starting to wonder if it'll forever fuck with him. 

Last night he looked LOST, people in the stands were moaning and groaning by the time he got his third strikeout. He was all over the field on defense though. I was also wondering if his wrist was bothering him. He looked so uncomfortable last night.

There was about 20 drunk women behind me and they started the wave. Dear god. So fucking annoying. They wouldn't stop cackling until people were like "excuse me I'm trying to watch a baseball game here". Being drunk at a game? Totally normal. Being drunk, obnoxious, and paying zero attention to the game? Fuck. Off.

Desi's tater landed about 3 rows behind me. It was my little sisters first game, so I tried to catch it for one of them, but alas, it was behind us. They were fucking terrified it was going to them though hahaha

you could hear the boos on TV by the fourth K.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Being drunk at a game? Totally normal. Being drunk, obnoxious, and paying zero attention to the game?

no. that sounds normal for dc.

stevewizzle wrote:
you could hear the boos on TV by the fourth K.

I didn't hear boos, there were groans. I'll say the people who were clearly not baseball fans were doing the "What's wrong with Ovi!?" thing where they were like "OH COME ON WERTH, ARE YOU SERIOUS, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU" and then would go back to checking their emails and facebooks.

@hutch normal for anywhere, i guess. just super annoying.

I'm sure most of you have seen this:

The Washington Nationals New Reality

Way too early to panic…

"The Nationals of 2013 haven't put their Opening Day lineup on the field since April 14. The only starting position player who hasn't missed time is shortstop Ian Desmond. And the last time Werth and Harper started in the same game was May 2 – a ridiculous 43 games ago."

And hopefully it never will with Rendon replacing Espinosa, but the point is the same.

Perfect evening for baseball!

37-38. Fire the manager?