The Nats Thread

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
I like the long hair and beard. Sincerely wish Espi had kept his INSANE beard last year or his wicked wild west mustache this year. Plus, Ian Desmond with a mustache is hilarious. HILARIOUS! If they aren't going to play tough, they should at least look tough.

You call those mustaches "looking tough", I called them "lead float at the Pride parade".

Not that the two descriptions have to be mutually exclusive.

Gay guys can be tough, you sexist.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Gay guys can be tough, you sexist.

Umm, he said. . .

Space wrote:
Not that the two descriptions have to be mutually exclusive.

I called him a sexist. I was kidding.

Worthless needs to go.  Too bad we have him on the hook for two more seasons. 
Rizzo may need to follow Williams.

so its Bud Black…

as the guy commenting on TV said he's great except he hasn't won……

definitely an upgrade on Williams though….

now we'll have two pitching coaches…

vansmack wrote:

hutch wrote:
Rizzo is a complete idiot… interviewing over the hill guys like dusty…

Folks haven't figured out by now that teams interview Dusty because MLB requires you to interview minorities?

Apparently someone forgot to tell the Nats management that it's only supposed to be a formality.  You don't actually hire him…..

They were so sure Bud Black was the man that they offered him a one year contract.  Bush league.

?I?m happy for Buddy,? Baker said, according to the Chronicle. ?I mean, Buddy played for me. But naturally, I don?t think anyone would have been as good for the job as me. It seemed like a perfect fit. The town. The diversity of the races. People from all over the world.?


What does the fact that there are people from all over the world living in Washington DC make the Nationals and Dusty Baker a "perfect fit"?


The Nationals chose Black on Wednesday, but the terms had to be ironed out. According to another person familiar with the situation, Black was ?deeply offended? by the Nationals? first offer and the talks didn?t get back on track after that. According to a tweet from an account believed to belong to Black?s wife, the initial offer was for one-year, $1.6 million.

Someone please deeply offend me with a $1.6 million contract offer for a year of work.

Dusty and Buddy. They sound more like a child's cat names more than human names.

rethinking it I much prefer Dusty to Bud Black…
you can't compare the experience…


the way it was reported was that they offered him $1 million per year for two years….

let's archive this thread until the Spring of 16'.

Yada wrote:
let's archive this thread until the Spring of 16'.

oh yeah, forget the new manager hiring… its nothing

Bwahahahaha. Dusty Baker. Good God.

hutch wrote:

Yada wrote:
let's archive this thread until the Spring of 16'.

oh yeah, forget the new manager hiring… its nothing

you sir, are correct… it will be yet another disappointing season in the district.

So they went with the black guy instead of the Black guy.

Dusty is the new Davey. And Buddy won't have buddies in DC after all.

Carlos wrote:
Bwahahahaha. Dusty Baker. Good God.

well we can't all get someone as gifted as brad ausmus…

hutch wrote:

Carlos wrote:
Bwahahahaha. Dusty Baker. Good God.

well we can't all get someone as gifted as brad ausmus…

I knew someone would say this, but you do understand Dusty Baker is worse than Brad Ausmus (who is, a bottom 10 manager in MLB) by a factor of like 2 or 3, right?

James Wagner:

The Nationals have been reluctant to pay top dollar for managers in the past. Their standard practice has been two-year deals with options, which Matt Williams, Jim Riggleman and Manny Acta signed. Riggleman made $600,000 his final year as manager in 2011. Even veteran manager Davey Johnson worked under a shorter-term deal. He made $4 million his final year as manager in 2013 after much lower pay before and had a modest consulting year added on for 2014. Williams, fired the day after the 2015 season ended, was due to make $1 million in 2016.

Nuke wrote:
James Wagner:

The Nationals have been reluctant to pay top dollar for managers in the past. Their standard practice has been two-year deals with options, which Matt Williams, Jim Riggleman and Manny Acta signed. Riggleman made $600,000 his final year as manager in 2011. Even veteran manager Davey Johnson worked under a shorter-term deal. He made $4 million his final year as manager in 2013 after much lower pay before and had a modest consulting year added on for 2014. Williams, fired the day after the 2015 season ended, was due to make $1 million in 2016.

look…I agree they are cheap but there wasn't any great manager out there to be hired….ozzie Guillen?

bud black has a losing record.. I ain't going to pay him much either…

now if girardi had been out there I would have wanted the nats to make a run..

i'm not sure why dusty is considered such a horrible manager… won some division titles, made it to a world series…won manager of the year once… nearly 20 years experience managing in the NL

he's a little past his prime and also has a reputation for mishandling pitchers (blowing out their arms)..that is about all I know

anyways, I would have hired cal ripken jr. but this ain't the worst choice they could have made..

hiring matt Williams a few years ago.. that WAS the worst choice.

hutch wrote:
…won manager of the year once…

Three times.