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Oh goody, maybe the Phillies will get him, go on and win the WS and then the city of brotherly love will have TWO champeens in the same year.
It would be worth it just for the rioting and looting images that would pop up on YouTube.
Nick Foles; stop the world, I want to get off.
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Some team that has not been mentioned in all of the trade talks will probably end up with him, like the Giants. ^&grin
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The Indians seem to be involved as well. According to the MLB Network they also want Britton as their bullpen needs some serious help.
Yep, Britton is probably gone, and Brach may be, and O'Day would be if he wasn't on the DL. The O's are like a week old corpse, waiting to be picked clean like the carrion they are. -- Al
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In watching the Nats play the Mets last night, they seemed to be sleepwalking through the game. You can never read what's in the mind of a team but they seem lethargic. They seemed no better than the Mets and the Mets are a terrible team. What is going on with the Nats?
Everything bad you can think of. They have no fire, and haven't had except for a short stretch in May. They have no team leadership. The offense has never jelled, never gotten going in any consistent manner all season. The starting pitching has fallen apart with the exception of Scherzer. The 3-ring circus that the Nats are on the base paths has been a season long problem and has never been addressed. The manager and his coaches are lost, in over their heads. And there are other problems, as well. I believe, in all honesty, that this is a team that will be lucky to finish .500, forget the playoffs. There are just too many things wrong. This team has cruised along all season with the motto 'It is early, with lots of baseball left to play, we'll be alright when (insert choice of problem here, ie. injured player returns, hitter gets going, bullpen straightens out, etc.) and we will be fine'. Well, it ain't early any longer and none of the problems have cleared up or improved and nothing has been done by management to help the situation. It is a disaster, top to bottom. The team needs to pull it's head out of the sand and face facts. -- Al
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Perhaps fire was the adjective I was looking for. Maybe firing Dusty was a mistake, especially with a veteran team. Of the four rookie managers, only the ones in the AL East have done well and maybe it's because their teams are loaded. The Nats were the subject of discussion on talk radio in NY under "what's wrong with the Nats?" John Heyman was on and said he didn't really know but said they had time to get it together. Unlike the hosts who were talking to Heyman, I don't get a lot of joy at seeing them struggle. It's more of a feeling of surprise than anything else.
Brad, it's a combo of problems. Firing Dusty and going with a rookie manager was a definite error, and one that the Lerner's have made before (lack of patience, bad advice, love of rookie managers, who knows? The real reason is probably monetary, as rookies are cheap, whereas Dusty wasn't going to be). Nats analyst Ray Knight seems to be the only one with a grasp of the problems, everyone else won't face the music. An overlooked aspect of the many problems was the loss of Jason Werth and his veteran leadership. The loss of Dusty and Werth in combination for a team poised for a playoff run has proved impossible to overcome to this point. There is still time to right the ship, but changes must occur and there has been no indication that this will happen. The under performance of this team has left the fanbase upset and confused, me included. -- Al
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Al, I read somewhere that Werth retired? What did Ray Knight say. Also, the injuries haven't helped, especially to Murphy. From what I can tell, he's having a slow time getting back in the middle of things. The Mets announcers thought he's not 100%.
Yeah, Murph isn't 100% yet but his bat is starting to come around. His mobility is still so-so. Nats rushed him back but they needed his bat back in the line-up. Werth did retire after a stint in the Mariners minor league system. He couldn't hit so he called it a day. No real argument with the Nats not resigning him, his skills have fallen off, but the loss of his leadership and veteran steadiness at this moment were just bad timing (and combined with the loss of Dusty). As far as Knight goes, he simply is calling it as he sees it, as opposed to the other TV announcers who continue to see roses and sunny days. Knight hasn't been adverse to being critical of things like the base-running, the lack of advancing runners when the situation calls for it, the use of the bullpen, etc. Knight has walked the walk as a manager and isn't afraid to say so when he believes there has been mistakes made. The guys who call the TV games, Carpenter and Santangelo, are hopeless homers, while Knight can be a breath of fresh air when looking at the Nats and their performance. -- Al
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Al:
I think that the impatience with managers has really been an issue for them. Ownership seem to think that if they don't win a World Series within two years then the manager is a bust and they move onto the next hire. In this day and age it takes time to not only build a team but that team takes time to fuse with the manager.
-Jason
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I understand you’re disappointed after today’s game. I can’t blame you. Frankly, I don’t know why he left that pitcher in there so long. It put them behind the 8 ball.
Brad, he just doesn't have the experience. He's overmatched at this stage of his development. It has been a problem all year. It's intrinsic with rookie managers, as the Nats have proven before, and a pennant race is nowhere for OJT. -- Al