The Nats Thread

sad day for baseball.

stevewizzle wrote:
sad day for baseball in DC.

Fixed it

vansmack wrote:
I could see Harper's towering shot from my couch hit the drink about 5 seconds before I saw it on TV.   

I don't get the people that float around out there hoping for a splashdown.

I blame Steve Wizzle for the loss. For  saying this thing was going five. For that, I'd like to recommend and insist that he drink this beer called Old Style every time he wants a beer on his next trip to Chicago.

That was a huge bummer. Super confused as to why we didn't see Clipp, Storen OR Stras. Uy. Fun season. Terrible finish.

Are people still going to give Bryce Harper shit? Or say you need veteran experience? From what I saw Harper and Rendon kind of carried this team and gave them the most opportunities offensively…. Wonder how different this would have been with a healthy Zimmerman. :\

Will be great to see a healthy line up next year. Hopefully We'll get more than 30 games out of the full line-up.

Go Royals!

Shemp wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
sad day for baseball in DC.

Fixed it

i'm a big fan of the LAD team. infinitely more fun to watch that StL.  out of all ths series match-ups, SF/StL is the most boring outcome. 

I'm really hoping for the AL winner to take the Series because neither of those teams have won in a while. I have a sinking suspicion it'll be St. Louis yet again, though, and we'll hear four months of obnoxious cliches about "doing it the right way" and "best fans in baseball" and "the Lord loves a working man" and other such eye-rolling inanity.

Julian, wrote:
I'm really hoping for the AL winner to take the Series because neither of those teams have won in a while. I have a sinking suspicion it'll be St. Louis yet again, though, and we'll hear four months of obnoxious cliches about "doing it the right way" and "best fans in baseball" and "the Lord loves a working man" and other such eye-rolling inanity.

Best fans in baseball right here.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/07/1334938/--Video-St-Louis-Cardinals-fans-chant-for-Darren-Wilson-tell-protestors-to-get-jobs-go-to-Africa#

I don't get it…. most people love Harper…I hardly think a few naysayers/skeptics change the fact he is almost universally revered…Must everyone agree he is the second coming?

Matt Williams blew that series Saturday when he took out Jordan Zimmerman…Giants are too good a postseason team to give up a 2-0 lead in a five game series… it just wasn't going to happen..

Shemp wrote:
I don't get the people that float around out there hoping for a splashdown.

I've never done it in a kayak, but I did sit out there one Sunday afternoon on a boat and it was a party.  We tied like 4 boats together and all the chicks were in bikinis and everybody has the game on the radio, drinking and having a good time.  Absent tickets to the game, it was a pretty fun way to listen to the game and still absorb the atmosphere of the crowd.

Last night was my first playoff game at home while the Giants were playing and it was a little annoying.  It was about a 7-10 second delay, so before Casillas even threw the last pitch to Harper, the fireworks had gone off and the crowd was going nuts.  It's not that bad for the local telecasts, so FS1 must be doing something differently.

Your scenario sounds great; bobbing around in a kayak not so much.

Shemp wrote:
Your scenario sounds great; bobbing around in a kayak not so much.

I think the guy whole ultimately got that tater ball ended up jumping out of his kayak. At least that's what it looked like in the replay.

hutch wrote:
Matt Williams blew that series Saturday when he took out Jordan Zimmerman…Giants are too good a postseason team to give up a 2-0 lead in a five game series… it just wasn't going to happen..

i just want to go ahead and say: yes, he did.

it didn't work out, i understand the move and why he made it, but that was the point where the nats conceded the series.

James wrote:
I blame Steve Wizzle for the loss. For  saying this thing was going five. For that, I'd like to recommend and insist that he drink this beer called Old Style every time he wants a beer on his next trip to Chicago.

i was probably going to do that anyways.

Shemp wrote:
Your scenario sounds great; bobbing around in a kayak not so much.

I'm going to try it on some warm Sunday with a cooler of beers.  I bet I don't last past 4 innings.  You rent them on the other side of the stadium so it's a short paddle and it's fairly calm channel - we'll see.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
I think the guy whole ultimately got that tater ball ended up jumping out of his kayak. At least that's what it looked like in the replay.

He did - though it was a relatively warm night.  Still, it was absolutely not worth it to me, but who knows what a collector gets for the 69th "Splash hit" and only the 3rd in post season.  Then it might have been worth it? 

stevewizzle wrote:

hutch wrote:
Matt Williams blew that series Saturday when he took out Jordan Zimmerman…Giants are too good a postseason team to give up a 2-0 lead in a five game series… it just wasn't going to happen..

i just want to go ahead and say: yes, he did.

Are you guys union members?

i don't get it

stevewizzle wrote:
i don't get it

Blaming management when an individual doesn't get their job done.

vansmack wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
i don't get it

Blaming management when an individual doesn't get their job done.

i mean, i'd also blame the walking corpse that is adam laroche, drew storen for hanging that pitch, anthony rendon for not charging that bunt, the pitchers mound at giants stadium, mccatty for not having a mound visit before gio walks the first run home, cabrera for getting kicked out of the game and sticking us with espinosa for the rest of the game, and the umpire for squeezing zim in the 9th.

but the pivotal moment was pulling zimm. there was no coming back after that.

stevewizzle wrote:

vansmack wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
i don't get it

Blaming management when an individual doesn't get their job done.

i mean, i'd also blame the walking corpse that is adam laroche, drew storen for hanging that pitch, anthony rendon for not charging that bunt, the pitchers mound at giants stadium, mccatty for not having a mound visit before gio walks the first run home, cabrera for getting kicked out of the game and sticking us with espinosa for the rest of the game, and the umpire for squeezing zim in the 9th.

but the pivotal moment was pulling zimm. there was no coming back after that.

What if all those other plays went the Nats way? Would pulling Zimm still have lost the series?