tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post404257456155812463..comments2023-10-20T04:28:04.547-04:00Comments on Nats320 -- A Washington Nationals Blog: Effort & ExecutionScreech's Best Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01094199653375184305noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-59522055705667146042008-08-16T00:03:00.000-04:002008-08-16T00:03:00.000-04:00Should a team, whenever it finishes last, ditch it...<I>Should a team, whenever it finishes last, ditch its highest paid star the next year since it can finish last without him, and thereby save the expenditure? </I><BR/><BR/>The Nats didn't ditch Soriano, he ditched them. Figure that out and get over it already!<BR/><BR/>(However, the Nats did ditch the iconic baseball in centerfield. Rave on about that one if you must...)An Briosca Morhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06855174362787324401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-48305072183783562532008-08-15T16:39:00.000-04:002008-08-15T16:39:00.000-04:00One more comment: Loverro writes: "the Nationals w...One more comment: Loverro writes: "the Nationals would be a last-place team with or without Dunn." Shades of what Kasten-Bow-Bow repeated mantra-like in 2007: "we were a last place team with Soriano and without him..."<BR/><BR/>Where is the logic is this kind of statement? The Red Sox in the late 1950's were a 7th place team out of 8 with Ted Williams, and arguably, without him, for example. Should a team, whenever it finishes last, ditch its highest paid star the next year since it can finish last without him, and thereby save the expenditure? Talk about pyrric rationalizing!<BR/><BR/>Trust in Teddy Ballgame. All Great.SenatorNathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049860385485455410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-82484103010855517232008-08-15T16:29:00.000-04:002008-08-15T16:29:00.000-04:00Loverro has a very good column in the Wash. Times ...Loverro has a very good column in the Wash. Times today. Essentially, Lerners have so starved out this team that free agents, even the lousy ones like Giambi and Adam Dunn will have to be overpaid to agree to come here. Nats are stuck with total of $13 million on Young and Kearns in 2009 - two players that have NO trade value, as he points out.<BR/><BR/>Nats are a joke around baseball - relegated to last tier status in terms of perception like KC; Pittsburgh. They are the whoopie cushion of MLB, he says. How did this happen? Key event probably was not making a legitimate offer to keep Soriano, and not playing for real in the free agent market last off-season, either. Fast Eddie Cohen apparently has Bow-Bow on such a tight budget that he is encouraged to make the kind of ad hoc useless deals like a valuable relief pitcher for a banjo hitter and stockpiling way over the hill and double-A utility players. When guys like Willie Harris and Ronnie Belliard are playing every position on the diamond every game, complemented by minor league players like Pete Orr and Cory Casto, you can stay within your budget, alright, but boy does it ever kill the fanbase, for good reason.<BR/> I believe that even with a rational budget of $75-80 million, left to his own devices, Bow-Bow would continue to make ad hoc moves, mostly team-deflating. But, he AND the brass can now hide behind the screen of "we went into the free agency market in off-season of 2009, but just couldn't get the deal(s) done." They are both the victims and the beneficiaries of there own tight-fisted and misguided judgement calls, in other words.<BR/><BR/>This is a devastatingly bad team, with the outlook for 2009 virtually the same as it was for 2008.<BR/><BR/>Trust in Kasten. All Good.<BR/><BR/>Nats last night had two major leaguers in starting line-up at the correct position: Zimmerman and Milledge - and some could argue that Milledge is not ready yet to play center field in the majors.SenatorNathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049860385485455410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-68631377228406904162008-08-15T15:10:00.000-04:002008-08-15T15:10:00.000-04:00We had a beautiful Capitol view from our season ti...<I>We had a beautiful Capitol view from our season ticket seats before that thing went up. Very, very inconsiderate of the Nats to do that to so many loyal fans.</I><BR/><BR/>Gee, if we'd known you were coming just to look at the Capitol building, we'd never have spent the money to field a team and play the games!<BR/><BR/>Get real. Tent or no tent, that view will be gone anyway in a year or two once all the Ballpark District development gets built.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-83083680889827917652008-08-15T13:26:00.000-04:002008-08-15T13:26:00.000-04:00And now let me apologize for the double posting. ...And now let me apologize for the double posting. My mistake.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840627858815628329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-32147366740939628472008-08-15T13:25:00.001-04:002008-08-15T13:25:00.001-04:00Thanks for the game story and the other highlights...Thanks for the game story and the other highlights. Very interesting as always. Sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but your pictures from Ladies' Night remind me of how awful that red tent is on top of the garage. We had a beautiful Capitol view from our season ticket seats before that thing went up. Very, very inconsiderate of the Nats to do that to so many loyal fans.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840627858815628329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-11661688425030487842008-08-15T13:25:00.000-04:002008-08-15T13:25:00.000-04:00Thanks for the game story and the other highlights...Thanks for the game story and the other highlights. Very interesting as always. Sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but your pictures from Ladies' Night remind me of how awful that red tent is on top of the garage. We had a beautiful Capitol view from our season ticket seats before that thing went up. Very, very inconsiderate of the Nats to do that to so many loyal fans.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840627858815628329noreply@blogger.com