Don't Feel Bad Nats, He's Been Doing That to Everyone, Reds win 5-1.
by Slyde on Jun 5, 2010 10:25 PM EDT
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Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game
Mike Leake. 7 IP, 7 H, 0 ER, 5 K, 0 B, 2-for-3 at the plate with a run. Plus he saved a drowning woman, whom he impregnated and delivered twins with in the same night. The twins went on to be named Nobel Prize winners, bringing peace to the Middle East. Honorable mention to Brandon Phillips and Orlando Cabrera.
Key Plays
- A Ryan Zimmerman error led off the game. One out later, Brandon Phillips scored on Joey Votto's 10th double of the year. Reds led 1-0.
- The Nats had 1st and 3rd with 2 outs in the bottom of the first, but Mike Leake did not care and got Josh Willingham to fly out to center.
- Nyjer Morgan doubled with one out in the third inning, but Leake laughed at the threat, getting a fly out from Zimmerman and striking out Adam Dunn.
- Scott Rolen led off the 4th with a double, but nothing happened.
- Leake reached on a one-out single in the 5th and came around to score from first on Orlando Cabrera's double. Reds led 2-0.
- The Nationals dented the plate in the 6th when Joey Votto dropped a 2-out soft liner with men on first and second allowing Zimmerman to come around to score. Reds led 2-1.
- Cabrera led off the 8th with his 12th double of the year. After failing to get the bunt down, Brandon Phillips singled on a ground ball to center, plating Cabrera. Phillips advanced to third on a wild pitch and fielder interference by shortstop Ian Desmond. Votto walked to make it first and third. Rolen ground to Desmond who came home with the throw, something catcher Wil Nieves wishes he hadn't done. Phillips blasted through Nieves knocking the ball from his hand and scoring the fourth run of the game for the Reds. One out later, Jay Bruce's single scored Votto. Reds led 5-1.
- Arthur Rhodes and Francisco Cordero pitched scoreless innings in the 8th and 9th.
Other Notes
- Leake has had a quality start (6+ IP, 3 or fewer runs) in all but one of his starts. In his one start where he did not have a quality start, he had given up 3 runs in 6 innings but then gave up 2 runs in the 7th inning to lose the quality start, but still get the victory in the game.
- Arthur Rhodes extended his consecutive scoreless innings streak to 22. He's given up 1 run in 24 innings this season (0.38 ERA).
- Former Red Adam Dunn was 1-for-4 with 2 strikeouts and a GIDP. Michael smiled gleefully.
- This was the 8th game this year in which the Reds have hit 4 doubles.
- Nats manager Jim Riggleman was tossed for arguing the fielder interference play in the 8th. Pitcher Miguel Batista was ejected after hitting Brandon Phillips in obvious retaliation for his chest-pounding after plowing through catcher Wil Nieves. It was the fourth ejection for the Nats in the last 2 games.
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I'd hit that!
So I wish I could play little league now, I'd kick some fuckin' ass.
by Joe Nolan's Glasses on Jun 5, 2010 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions
So as I was saying
Rhodes is all that..best reliever in the world
Votto a smoking offensive machine
and Leake heading toward ROY
and I bet the National League AS Manager choose either Cabrerra or Coco to rep the Reds.
My name is Madville and I'm a JonnyGomesLaynceNixaddict.
Mads mumbles incoherently to self as he heads for the bedroom...
My name is Madville and I'm a JonnyGomesLaynceNixaddict.
do you ever mumble coherently?
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 5, 2010 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Leake. 2011 Reds Ace
Leake is a bona fide ballplayer and a hell of a pitcher. He has amazing movement and is able to throw every pitch for a strike. If he isnt by the end of this year, I’m telling you this kid is going to be a staff ace soon and for a long time. I am amazed he looks so polished so early in his career, but Im jumping on the Mike Leake boat. The question looming with Volquez and Chapman poised to join the rotation later in the year is when do we trade Harang and his ridiculous contract? Also what could we possibly get in return? Id say go for some bullpen help over a prospect or bench player. Obviously theres no way to upgrade in the top 8 through a Harang trade, but are the Reds looking for another bat, and what will that cost us?
He called me a baboon, he thinks I'm his wife.
There is no trading Harang question
That ship has sailed. He’s just irrelevant now.
by Brian B on Jun 6, 2010 12:00 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
The Leak(e) Boat
I feel like I’ve jumped on that boat with a few Reds players over the years
If you walk out of here tonight and see a man c***-flapping, you run with that man.
what ridiculous contract? It's over at the end of the season
And, speaking of contracts, Chapman’s benefits the Reds a lot more if he is allowed to stay in the minors the whole season.
It was actually a pretty good contract when it was signed
I looked through the RR archives, people were much more excited about Harang’s extension compared to Arroyo’s, it as thought that Harang would hold up better and be more durable.
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions
I couldnt watch this game
Could someone elaborate on the BP “chest pounding” and retaliation. Did it involve the nats manager? They both got tossed?
BP Chest pounding.
The Nats manager got tossed when Phillips was awarded third base. He went from first to third on a wild pitch and was “interfered” with by Nats shortstop Ian Desmond. The manager came out and got tossed. Phillips went home on the next play which was an infield FC that Desmond tossed home and Phillips ran over the Nats catcher making him lose the ball and scoring the run. BP pounded his chest after stomping on home which the DC folk didnt care for as they retaliated in the 9th by hitting BP on the first pitch of his AB and the Nats pitcher getting tossed.
He called me a baboon, he thinks I'm his wife.
by ThreeofSpades on Jun 5, 2010 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
great summary
you should be able to see the chest pounding play at Reds.com soon. It was a pretty intense play. I haven’t seen Brandon do that before
Pounding
It was pretty much the same chest pound Phillips does every time he touches home.
by ben nevis on Jun 5, 2010 10:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
nothing like a nice pounding when you hit a home run!
is that going too far?
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 5, 2010 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
It should have gone as far as being an actual pun
If you walk out of here tonight and see a man c***-flapping, you run with that man.
by Man Mountain on Jun 6, 2010 8:56 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
or every time he singles
It wasn’t a big deal. If he’d taunted the catcher I could understand the hbp, but he didn’t. He bulled into the catcher then turned around to touch the plate.
Batista beaning BP and then jawing at him after BP simply took his base was bush.
by ken on Jun 6, 2010 8:40 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I disagree
I don’t think BP was trying to show up the other team, but I guarantee that if somebody did the exact same thing to the Reds, this site would be erupting with people demanding that he get hit in his next AB.
I think this situation was handled exactly how it should have been handled and I’d assume at this point, each side has come to an understanding.
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Oh, I don't doubt that this site would blow up
I’m just growing weary of all the back-and-forth on purported violations of the unwritten rules. Take too long on your HR trot? That’s a beaning. Walk across the pitcher’s mound? Beaning. A mild display of emotion directed away from the opposing dugout after scoring on a great play? You’d better believe that’s a beaning.
I understand that this is all ingrained in baseball culture. I just don’t agree with it. If the transgression offends you that much, confront it on the spot. It doesn’t take a big man to wait until the offending player is back at the plate and then throw purposefully at him. Even if you’re aiming at his back or ribs, the pitch could easily end up breaking his finger or wrist.
by ken on Jun 6, 2010 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Just saw BP's postgame interview on FSOhio
I heard the words “helped my on-base percentage”. Slyde, how can you still hate the man? ;)
"There is no such thing as an innocent Gatorade cooler."
That collision
must have knocked some sense into him.
So I wish I could play little league now, I'd kick some fuckin' ass.
by Joe Nolan's Glasses on Jun 5, 2010 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
exactly!!
plus I really do not think the Reds can win without him
"I don't challenge Murphy, even if he's 0 for 20. Not him, not ever." - Mario Soto
I'm the director of a youth center
At the ’Stros game last Friday (won 15-6), I took all 20 of the kids we took to the game down to the first base line to get some autographs. BP took the time to sign autos for EVERY one of my kids. Pretty cool dude. He can do no wrong in my eyes after that. Kids loved it.
A hooker in Minneapolis.
BP loves kids
it’s obvious every time I’ve seen him.
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I hope he isn't deistantly related to Jim Day
My name is Madville and I'm a JonnyGomesLaynceNixaddict.
Or Gapper.
Kids just really don’t like Gapper at all.
A hooker in Minneapolis.
by Lucky Pierre on Jun 6, 2010 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions
BP may not get along with journalists
But I’ve never seen him be anything less than gracious to the fans. Even when he doesn’t stop to sign autographs, he smiles and waves at the fans. Unlike most players, who pretend not to see or hear them if they don’t want to sign.
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Did Fay accuse of him lack of hustle yet
that play at home wouldn’t have been so close if Brandon had been stealing home.
not quite
But the feud continues.
Baker praised Phillips’ play.
"That’s the way you play hard-nosed baseball," Baker said. "Everything was clean and hard. That’s how you play."
But Baker wasn’t surprised the Nationals hit Phillips because of chest pounding.
"That’s exactly what it was," he said. "In the old days, you would have gotten drilled."
Phillips was OK with the whole thing.
"I just go out there and play the game of baseball the way I know how," Phillips told reporters. "I just play with a lot of excitement. I didn’t see nothing wrong with what I did. If people think I did something wrong, I apologize to whoever thinks so, but it’s baseball."
As for getting hit, he said: "Trust me it just helps my on-base percentage," Phillips said. "That’s how I look at it. They did their job and I did mine. Lesson learned."
I used "Phillips told reporters" because he wouldn’t talk until I left. He’s ticked at me for asking him about his lack of hustle on play a few weeks ago. I can’t recall the specific play because there’s been enough of them that they run together.
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That last paragraph, especially the last sentence
might be a new level of cattiness even for Fay.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
what a jerk
Fay that is, just quit saying that stuff and BP will get over it. Both need to be more mature abotu it, but Fay comes off the worst
Yeah
Fay really looks like a princess.
A hooker in Minneapolis.
by Lucky Pierre on Jun 6, 2010 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
BP doesn't look good either
Asking one reporter to leave the group is lame. Both guys need to get over themselves and just do their jobs.
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I guess I'm more forgiving of BP.
He was nice to me. And, Fay’s job (from my understanding) is to report on the team and to get inside info and unique perspectives. I sort of feel it’s out of line for him to place his tenuous relationships with some of the players in the news. It’s not about him and who he fusses with. He’s sort of putting himself in the news.
A hooker in Minneapolis.
by Lucky Pierre on Jun 6, 2010 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions
like I said
they both need to get over themselves.
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Hal and BP had a similar spat a year or two ago
the difference was I don’t think Hal reported it until they mended fences.
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by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions
And C. Trent
when he was with the now-defunct Post. He reported that BP was not well-liked in the clubhouse, by reporters or by his fellow teammates. Remember how BP and Josh Hamilton got into that public feud? A lot of fans thought Hamilton was out of line – a rookie publicly calling out a veteran to the press. But Trent said everyone was on Hamilton’s side.
As I recall, Trent said BP was very nice to TV reporters, but had ticked off all the print and radio reporters.
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what did hamilton call him out on?
Dusty Baker said it was the first [triple play] he’d seen in person. When he was with the Dodgers, they hit into one, but he was in the bathroom.- C Trent
by The Crushinator on Jun 6, 2010 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
BP complained about the press attention
given to Hamilton and Griffey, and implied that they were too busy playing up their personal stories and not concentrating on baseball. Griffey made a brief reply and didn’t name names, but Hamilton called out BP by name, saying he was jealous and hated anyone who got attention instead of him.
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yes
It’s becoming quite unseemly.
However, the fact that Fay’s willing to call him out that way tells me that BP doesn’t have a lot of friends in the clubhouse. If he was the leader so many hoped he would to be, reporters wouldn’t dare diss him like that.
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Latest non-Reds news
Birdos transferred RHP Kyle Lohse to the 60-day DL.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
Lohse
Hate to see a player go on the DL, except when he plays for the Cards.
He called me a baboon, he thinks I'm his wife.
by ThreeofSpades on Jun 5, 2010 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions
with Lohse and Penny put on the DL hopefully the Reds can retake their rightful place atop the Central and put some distance between them this time.
He called me a baboon, he thinks I'm his wife.
by ThreeofSpades on Jun 5, 2010 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
They also sent Supreme Court Justice John Jay to the minors
and signed Randy Winn.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
I liked that Jay
he looks like he is going to be a pretty good player in time. Plus he wrote a pretty mean set of Papers
"I don't challenge Murphy, even if he's 0 for 20. Not him, not ever." - Mario Soto
David Freese
sprained his ankle today – Yea!
So I wish I could play little league now, I'd kick some fuckin' ass.
by Joe Nolan's Glasses on Jun 5, 2010 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Leake for President!
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. -Gertrude Stein
Leake for Pope!
"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin
by BK on Jun 5, 2010 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Leake for Prime Minister!
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Leake for RR Managing Editor!
"the only place they lost was the scoreboard"
by Ewok on Jun 6, 2010 9:32 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I was interested in Leake's hitting
so I looked up everybody else. Some pretty good hitters but
Walter Johnson, of all people, in 1925, hit .433 (42 for 97) at the end of his career.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
He had to hit well . . .
since the Washington everyday guys couldn’t score any run !
Leake could easily be 7-0. Coco blew the Atlanta game (Meltdown of
the season) and the O didn’t score 3 + in a couple of No decisions.
GO REDS !!!
It's GO time !
Abe Lincoln won his second President's Race in a row
This time beating McClellan.
by Brendanukkah on Jun 6, 2010 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Abe is a cocky MoFo.
While I originally rooted for Abe in the President’s Race towards my African-American brothers and sisters in the Civil War, I have since shifted my allegiances to George. I cannot root for Jefferson and rooting for Teddy is masochistic.
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Race victories
George: 9, Abe: 11
George Bush?
by Brendanukkah on Jun 6, 2010 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Washington of course.
Abe can get real gangsta sometimes. I think it was one of the Orioles games I went to when he was knocking people over. In earlier races, Teddy has been DQed for stuff like that.
Souldrummer stands alone for Miguel Batista. Many want to see Capps save games. Dream big! MOAR RUNZ!!! MOAR BATISTA!!!!
That's the ironic thing about the Presidents' race...
…if it were the real Presidents I’d expect Teddy to win consistently. It’d probably be Teddy or George > Abe > Tom and his Monticello loafing behind.
Souldrummer stands alone for Miguel Batista. Many want to see Capps save games. Dream big! MOAR RUNZ!!! MOAR BATISTA!!!!
So when was McClellan president?
I always knew George Harrison, the former Beatle, was the cousin of President William J. Harrison, who could run pretty fast, but McClellan?
Nope, I don’t recall that one.
Reagan maybe.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
The allusion is to Mr. Lincoln's 2nd run for the presidency in 1864 where he beat McClellan.
Apparently Brendanukkah is a sage student of history.
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McClellan apparently pissed
at having his name left off the jerseys, decided to start his own team.
I have some sense of the history but I am also old and forget a lot of crap.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
Someone at the Gallery Place Metro stop was wearing a Mike Leake jersey
Well played, anonymous Reds fan.
I saw a Leake jersey at the game.
Mayhaps it was the same guy, though I kind of like to think it wasn’t. I prefer to imagine hordes of Mike Leake fans swarming the streets of DC.
by the finest muffins on Jun 6, 2010 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions
There were certainly hordes of Reds fans on the Metro, at the Bullpen, and in the stadium
I’m meeting more “big Nats fans,” but they sure don’t do a good job of creating a home field advantage atmosphere. Not unlike when the Cubs come to Cinci, I suppose.
There was a radio station in Martinsburg, WV that used to broadcast the Reds
Back in my college days. Is that still going on? Martinsburg is 1 hour from DC.
by Jack Armstrong started an All Star Game on Jun 6, 2010 1:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Eyewitness Report - Afternoon Stalking
I went to the Reds’ hotel this afternoon before the game and sat down in the lobby bar – right in front of Coco and Bryan Price. I flashed my Reds hat at Coco and wished him good luck, and he sort of grunted. Right, then.
Next person I saw was Jonny Gomes, rocking some Chuck Taylors and carrying a venti Starbucks. He waved, probably to Coco, but just as possibly to me. Just. As. Possibly.
Arthur Rhodes walked by with a woman half his age.
Johnny Cueto came by with two other Dominican looking guys that I couldn’t recognize. One was very tall and thin, and I thought it might have been Enerio del Rosario. But when I saw him in the bullpen later at the game, it wasn’t the same guy.
Jay Bruce walked into the bar area and drank water. Good boy.
Clutch Man Monie stopped by to say hi to Coco, but some family was taking pictures of a recent graduate and blocked his way in. Clutch Man Monie was very patient.
Homer Bailey walked by. He really does look like Christian Bale, but was wearing a very Texas plaid shirt, blue jeans, and boots.
Laynce Nix showed up with a very plastic looking girl. Her jeans flattered her butt. A lot.
Jonny Gomes walked through the lobby again and I told him to kick some ass tonight. He said thanks. We’re totes BFFs now.
by Brendanukkah on Jun 6, 2010 12:26 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Lucky!
I wish I could be BFFs with Jonny Gomes!
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
so he would get your girlfriend drunk, have sex with her, make a video of it, and post it on facebook?
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions
... I'd really like to think that wouldn't happen...
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
he is that kind of a guy!
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Right, but she's not that kinda girl!
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Jonny Gomes makes every woman, that kinda girl!
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 12:46 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Now we know why Mads is a big Nix fan
I wanna party with Nix
by Highlifeman21 on Jun 6, 2010 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions
It's Jonny F'n Gomes
You really think he needs to get the women drunk?
I’m gonna venture a guess that women see him, and panties drop. Pretty much almost no words need exchanged, maybe some head nodding and a grunt or two from each party.
by Highlifeman21 on Jun 6, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I forgot to mention Goth Harang
He walked by wearing black. His hair was much darker than I thought it would be (and missing a bit on top!).
by Brendanukkah on Jun 6, 2010 12:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh, my new best friend?
Yeah, he’s cool. He thinks I’m cool, too. No biggie.
by Brendanukkah on Jun 6, 2010 2:17 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
So they get really worked up about two-strike counts at Nationals Park.
It’s really bizarre. They get a batter to two strikes and all the screens in the stadium explode with light and color and the words “TWO STRIKES!!!” It was unclear if Nats employees are aware that it takes three strikes to get a batter out. Later in the game, I think the scoreboard operator got a bit demoralized and stopped using that graphic. But by then I’d adopted the phrase for myself, on behalf of the Reds pitchers. I may have borrowed my enunciation from this child:
by the finest muffins on Jun 6, 2010 12:36 AM EDT reply actions
Well, the problem is that we don't really have too many pitchers with swing and miss stuff.
So I think they are trying to get the crowd amped up or something to cheer their pitch to contact guys to get strikeouts. They can keep doing this, but unless they actually have a strikeout pitcher like Clippard or Strasburg on the hill I am not going to be baited into wasting but so much of my energy on this.
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I'm not crazy, right?
They were playing an organ version of “Peaches” while Clippard was on the mound last night, right?
by Brendanukkah on Jun 6, 2010 12:50 AM EDT up reply actions
If you listen carefully, you will notice the organist usually plays the fielder's at bat music when they make a play.
So, he was probably doing that for Peaches as well. I don’t think he can fully fathom Luis Atilano’s music so he was playing “Louis, Louis” instead. As a musician, I dig the organist. No, he’s not going to make me put away my Jimmy Smith records but you can choose to listen to it if you know the player’s at bat musics or you can ignore it. Some of the stuff they do on the stadium board gets annoying, but I’ve gotten used to it.
Souldrummer stands alone for Miguel Batista. Many want to see Capps save games. Dream big! MOAR RUNZ!!! MOAR BATISTA!!!!
thats a good idea
when they did the unplugged game at Great American, I was hoping they would play organ versions of the player’s batting music for comedy, but they didn’t. Maybe next year
The 2010 Nationals kind of remind me of the 2004 Reds.
"Every day we expect to win and here lately we've been doing that."-Homer Bailey
by justin007000 on Jun 6, 2010 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions
I think the Nationatorials have a pretty nice nucleus
seems like an interesting team if not a particularly successful one.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
They'll be good soon
They have outstanding outfield defense, though the hitting outside of Willingham is spotty there. Zimmerman is going to be the best third baseman in the NL for a long time. Ian Desmond is a damn fine ballplayer, and seems like the solution at SS. Strasburg makes his appearance on Tuesday, Jordan Zimmermann is going to be great if he stops getting hurt, and they’re about to draft Bryce Harper. They’re poised for a Rays-like jump in the standings.
The pitcher the Nats drafted in the first round in 2009 that everyone's talking about?
He’s a great pitcher too. It’s just kinda hard to call a middle reliever a “building block” of your team.
Drew Storen
The other 2009 1st Round draft pick
I thought he was going to be a BOR SP for the Nats, but instead he’s now a MR? Interesting.
When I visited Nationals Park last year, he threw out the Ceremonial 1st pitch.
by Highlifeman21 on Jun 6, 2010 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions
The Washington Nationals have been the carbon copy
of the Cincinnati Reds since their existence. Thanks of course to Mr. Bowden. Now that he is gone, both franchises will do much better.
Is Washington considered a small market?
by Jack Armstrong started an All Star Game on Jun 6, 2010 1:01 AM EDT reply actions
for most purposes, yes ... they'd be small market
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
I think Washington is a midmarket myself.
It will look and feel like a small market until it becomes a destination kind of thing or until they build a winner. As a mature market, it should have enough bodies to operate like the Braves payroll wise.
The Caps go great guns here now and they were small market for awhile. DC has a lot of entertainment options and people have low tolerance for just going to the ballpark and watching mass fail.
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Perspectives
From a global perspective, D.C. as a national capital is far less the engine than most world capitals go, until you factor in the affluence.
I have no idea how MLB sees its markets, other than it’s clear what IS big and what IS small in terms of advertising clout.
I’d say DC is a big market from a user perspective and a small market from an advertiser perspective but that whole Ches-Bay area is pretty hard to ignore for its financial clout.
I think the problem generally is the team hasn’t been around long enough to have a fan following that stretches beyond its own defined region. Winning and time will affect that.
This is completely unsustainable, but man, is it fun while it lasts. -- BubbaFan
any fight fans catch the foreman cotto fight?
i watched it without sound and am really confused as to what exactly happened near the end. What was the ref’s interpretation of the towel-throw?
Retractions are for journalists! -Gray
BLee made sure that we appreciated that he was missing this fight so that he could watch the Reds with us
Daedalus thanked him by eating a half smoke.
The referree said the towel came from an unknown source, not Foreman's trainer. Therefore he
continued the fight. For a couple of minutes anyway, until he was Foreman was TKO’d. He apparently had a preexisting
knee injury. His knee kept buckling. He fought through it though – tough dude>
So I wish I could play little league now, I'd kick some fuckin' ass.
by Joe Nolan's Glasses on Jun 6, 2010 1:15 AM EDT reply actions
yeah that knee stuff was gross
the friend i watched the fight with and I have decided that foreman tore his ACL in the seventh round. Then probably the MCL in the last round.
That towel stuff some bowshit though. A guy in Foreman’s corner clearly threw the towel.
Retractions are for journalists! -Gray
In honor of tonight's win and BP knocking over folks
Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A f*ckin' playground for the cocks*ckers.
-Lee Elia on Cubs fans
by Farneyismycopilot on Jun 6, 2010 5:12 AM EDT reply actions
I see
the Cards managed to eke out a win in the 11th. The guy named after cheese with the walkoff single.
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I was just about to mention that...
The Brewers had two on with one out in the 11th but couldn’t score.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
BP smackdown
Was very, very reminiscent of Norm Charlton laying out Dodgers C Mike Scioscia in the ’90 regular season.
It felt like a season defining moment to me and the crew @ Brother’s…
"the only place they lost was the scoreboard"
by Ewok on Jun 6, 2010 10:21 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
wish it had happened vs Cards or Cubs, though
"the only place they lost was the scoreboard"
by Ewok on Jun 6, 2010 10:24 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Is there a video of BP's play at the plate yet?
I’ve been looking, but can’t find it. Kan eye haz halps?
A hooker in Minneapolis.
watch the video here
From the ESPN recap.
No super slowmo, but you get to see it realtime.
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Got a pic (from the AP)
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by Slyde on Jun 6, 2010 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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