Strasburg Start No. 2: 3 IP, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K

OK, then, everyboard aboard SWA to Sky Harbor Airport. Phoenix, here we come. Destination: the postseason.

Dysfuncional toxic managers the Nats are not. Soon it will be this team and not the Redskins that will be held in high regard.

Hello.....The Nats held on to Jimbo for as long as they could. Well past when any well run team would have. If Jim Bowden is not the definition of Toxic Management I do not know what is.

I think Ted and Mark Lerner have a lot to prove before we can forget the last 3 1/2 years!

One more time ...

Jimmy, it's on!
(even tho I'm not on SWA for this trip)

Let's us do a class trip to Florida. Pick a date!

If Jim Bowden is not the definition of Toxic Management I do not know what is.

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Um, Jim Bowden is gone, last I checked. Let us all know when DC's football team gets a new GM.

And maybe a new owner. At least with the Lerners, you get the sense they may learn someday that their job consists solely of smiling for the cameras and signing the paychecks. They obviously already understand the part that involves S-ing TFU.

On another note: Belli, Belli, Bell-iard! Congrats to Belli and the rest of Torre's Dodgers, except for that weird, dreadlocked gal who plays out in left field - what's up with her, anyway? What? Oh. Never mind.

As a transplanted New Yorker and lifelong (and still) Yankees fan, and as a current Nats fan, I should be cheering for the Dodgers, what with Don Mattingly and Joe Torre sitting on their bench and Ronnie Belliard on the field.

But I hate the Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers with a passion. I hate the Dodgers only a little less than I hate Osama bin Laden. A LITTLE less.

In fact, I hate California, except for Lake Tahoe and certain wines that come out of California (it's something personal that I don't care to get into but I don't ever want to see her again). If the Red Sox come back from the brink and end up sweeping the Yankees with four consecutive 10-0 no-hit games, with David Ortiz hitting a grand slam each game moments after injecting himself with HGH right at home plate, I'll still cheer for the Sawx over the Dodgers and pray that Terry Francona slays the entire Dodgers lineup with a Gatling gun moments after whatever celebrity throws out the first pitch.

Except for Torre and Mattingly and Belliard; bullets in the spines causing permanent paralysis will suffice for them.

I hatehatehatehate the Dodgers.

No, really, gilbert, tell us how you really feel.

As a transplanted New Yorker and lifelong (and still) Yankees fan, and as a current Nats fan, I should be cheering for the Dodgers, what with Don Mattingly and Joe Torre sitting on their bench and Ronnie Belliard on the field.

But I hate the Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers with a passion. I hate the Dodgers only a little less than I hate Osama bin Laden. A LITTLE less.

In fact, I hate California, except for Lake Tahoe and certain wines that come out of California (it's something personal that I don't care to get into but I don't ever want to see her again). If the Red Sox come back from the brink and end up sweeping the Yankees with four consecutive 10-0 no-hit games, with David Ortiz hitting a grand slam each game moments after injecting himself with HGH right at home plate, I'll still cheer for the Sawx over the Dodgers and pray that Terry Francona slays the entire Dodgers lineup with a Gatling gun moments after whatever celebrity throws out the first pitch.

Except for Torre and Mattingly and Belliard; bullets in the spines causing permanent paralysis will suffice for them.

I hatehatehatehate the Dodgers.

Um, o-kay.

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I've been drinking tonight, in case it isn't obvious.

So...you dated Alyssa Milano? Just kidding.

I've never been THAT drunk.

I hate Hollywood, too, maybe even more than the Dodgers. This causes a little bit of friction with my wife.

We both like petit sirah.

hehe

Okay, I have to go to bed before I start talking about what I was doing in Dallas on November 22, 1963...

Good call, Gil, although as a long-time Giants fan, good on 'ya.

Perc...redskins held in high regard, that is so yesterdays news. Up next....Nat Fever, catch it.

gilbert....was that you in the zapruder film??

I add my congrats and best wishes to Belli. A stolen base, for goodness sake! Geez, he must think he's in heaven, looking back to June or so.

And I hope my enduring antipathy for the Yankees cancels out Gilbert's hatred for the Dodgers. Douglass Wallop, fellow Terrapin, God Bless you.

I like turtles.

I'm happy for you, Sec3.

Strasburg 2:

3 IP, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K

The horror. The horror.

Douglass Wallop, fellow Terrapin, God Bless you.
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Heh heh heh... Even as a Yankee fan, I love that book. You DO remember who was the world's biggest Yankees fan in that book, don't you, lad?

Gil, I'm impressed. Drinking and ranting at 10:30, up and cheerful at 5:30. You've got style and stamina, man.

But I worry about you just a little. If it turns out to be Phils-Dodgers in the NLCS, are you gonna be able to watch at all?

Buster Olney this morning entertains the idea that LaRussa (and Dave Duncan) may be done in St. Louis, and then reviews teams that may be interested in LaRussa..including our very own Nationals.

Any thoughts? Dare (or should?) we dream? Olney points out the obvious--that LaRussa may not be interested in coaching a team that may not be ready to win.

I don't believe for one minute that St.Louis hierarchy would get rid of LaRussa and Duncan, okay maybe Duncan(still pissed off about the treatment of his son by the team)but certainly not LaRussa and NO! he wouldn't come here i mean why would he? too much would be expected of him, but man they are bummimg in St.Louis today my ex-partner called me from St.Louis yesterday morning talking about a Cardinal comeback and then last night he called about as down as a lifelong fan could be he told me "this ranks right up there with 1968 collapse against the Tigers" I told him "at least you guys made the playoffs" he didn't want to hear it so i told him go have a few and maybe next year.

Olney's just associating names with openings. St. Louis just had a bad week at the worst possible time; that doesn't mean that LaRussa & Co. will pack it in.
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In other news, I personally wouldn't mind a LAA-LAD World Series. Next to no chance of weather delays, two good teams, and it would mean the $pankees & Redsux Nation have to sit this one out.

Can Strasburg play quarterback?

hehe, and the Nation pulls up a whole lot of pine. I can't believe that Papelbon blew it. Wow. It was weird when the door on the green monster opened. Maybe it was the spirit of Man-Ram? Hope that the WaPo chapter of the Nation is hanging in there.

Could this be an all L.A. series? Its a possibility I really hadn't thought would happen....but, well, perhaps. Gilbert...just relax.

That possibility occurred to me this afternoon as well, coked.

I wouldn't be surprised to see LaRussa get sacked. He gets the Cards into the playoffs but almost always chokes once they get there, by overmanaging and putting the pressure on his team. Boswell spotted this tendency a few years ago. You can get rich by going to Vegas and betting against Boswell's picks and against LaRussa's Cardinals.

And coke, even though I hate the Dodgers with a blinding passion that knows few if any bounds, and have no love for California except for Tahoe and the places where they make wine (the best petit sirah in the world comes from the Bay area), I'd cheer for the Angels over Satan's spawn Dodgers.

Redskins help another winless team get in the plus column today. Anyone think the Redskins will get their next winning season before the Nats get their first?

Anyone care to make the argument that the Nats are more poorly run than the Redskins? Hehhehhehhehheh.

Drinking a '07 Cotes du Rhone tonight. I didn't say ALL the good wine comes from the left coast.

Chico, time for a new post; how are we supposed to talk America's Game without you priming the pump for us?

Gilbertbp wrote: Drinking a '07 Cotes du Rhone tonight. I didn't say ALL the good wine comes from the left coast.

Personally, my favorite vintage is a tasty 2009 Maalox with lots and lots of cheap bourbon. How many folks are staying up for the late, late, late Rockies-Phils show? Let's go ROX...

LaRussa won't get sacked. He could decide to quit, though.

MLB.com reporting that Dana Brown is leaving Nats to head for the Great White North and the BJ's.

the breakup of the bungling bowden boys continues....

Ugh. Now it falls to the Angels to prevail over the evil empire. Sorry, JiM, if you're out there. That tiebreaker game was one of the most exciting ever, if it's any consolation.

Gilbert, I grew up in Cali, so at least a few good things are grown there, if I do say so myself.

Re. Brown: What, Costco didn't have any openings? Oh. Never mind.

Sunshine/jd: nah. I have to work tomorrow. Have fun though (go, Rocks!!).

If the Rocks prevail, only one team east of the Mississippi will be left, and I can't stand them. I don't have a horse in this race, but I guess I'll pull for Belly and Dodger blue since I have relatives in L.A. Sorry Gilbert, ouch...ok, I'll root for the Angels if the if the Dodgers get knocked out. Springtime in Viera can't get here fast enough.

Yanks and Halo's should be nice,Angels finally exorcised the demons and "red sox nation" is pretty bummed out (gotta love that)Angels will have to play at the top of their game to beat the Yanks but i like their chances this is going to be a great series.

The Firings are just starting....once Instructional League ends and WS is over....Boone, Spin, Riggs and all the coaches save Eckstien will be fired.

Rizzo is going to change 50% of the baseball side of the front office. That is the tipping point needed to change the culture of losing is expected.

New post, from the (original) blog mom.

the erstwhile Blogmother, even ...

Gilbert, I hate the Yankees more than you hate the Dodgers and California.