2012 Nationals

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:53 pm

Nationals Turn Back the Clock with a Comeback

After all of my Tweets about the Nats, I've finally blogged about them. This is a helluva team to watch, folks.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:14 pm

Jake wrote:Nationals Turn Back the Clock with a Comeback

After all of my Tweets about the Nats, I've finally blogged about them. This is a helluva team to watch, folks.

Great game to blog about, Jake. The sight of the straight-edge 'W' goes right through my heart. I'll repeat what I said someplace:

The win over the Giants was not a matter of luck. Clearly, Clark Griffith and Walter Johnson, Sam Rice, Joe Judge, Goose Goslin, and Muddy Ruel reached back and helped out, while Bucky Harris whispered advice to Davey.

The back-to-back homers were a touch of Bucky Harris, hitting a home-run to deep left, and deep left in Griffith Stadium, even with added bleachers, was VERY deep.

Walter Johnson lent a hand to Clip in the 9th.

Lombo's bunt that the pitcher couldn't handle was like Giants catcher stumbling on his face-mask as he tried to catch Muddy Ruel's pop foul.

TMoore's double was Muddy Ruel slamming a double right after the muffed foul. Plays don't have to arrive in the same order.

And...who can doubt that there was a Freddie Lindstrom moment when the throw hopped over the 1B mitt??

Luck had nothing to do with it. That game was supposed to look lost, and be won by the team with the 'W' on their hats. For details, see the 1924 Game 7 summary, at:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 0100.shtml

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:47 pm

That certainly was one of the best games of the season. Reading that makes me wish I was around in 1924 to experience it.

langleyparkjoe · Post by **langleyparkjoe** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:55 am

Countertrey wrote:
welch wrote:
Deadskins wrote:
welch wrote:From the time I met CT back in elementary school

You've known Countertrey since elementary school?

we rode the same South Dakota Ave bus to Bunker Hill Elementary School. We both had Mrs. Cole, who taught us to read. CT lived on one side of South Dakota; I lived on the other. Probably stood at the same bus-stop. In fact, my sister had her tonsils out at the same hospital where CT was born, I think.

He took my milk money... regularly. I have a calcium deficiency to this day. And, he sat on me until I said "SCARBATH!!" Bastage.

(you have to admit... Scarbath is one bad ass name)

Ya'll are so homegrown, I knew I (brotherly) loved you jerks for a reason. :lol:

Deadskins · Post by **Deadskins** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:21 am

langleyparkjoe wrote:I knew I (brotherly) loved you jerks for a reason.

Are you from Philly?

langleyparkjoe · Post by **langleyparkjoe** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:30 am

Deadskins wrote:
langleyparkjoe wrote:I knew I (brotherly) loved you jerks for a reason.

Are you from Philly?

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:01 pm

langleyparkjoe wrote:
Countertrey wrote:
welch wrote:
Deadskins wrote:
welch wrote:From the time I met CT back in elementary school

You've known Countertrey since elementary school?

we rode the same South Dakota Ave bus to Bunker Hill Elementary School. We both had Mrs. Cole, who taught us to read. CT lived on one side of South Dakota; I lived on the other. Probably stood at the same bus-stop. In fact, my sister had her tonsils out at the same hospital where CT was born, I think.

He took my milk money... regularly. I have a calcium deficiency to this day. And, he sat on me until I said "SCARBATH!!" Bastage.

(you have to admit... Scarbath is one bad ass name)

Ya'll are so homegrown, I knew I (brotherly) loved you jerks for a reason.

Remember, also: I've known about the Tick Tock since I was about seven or eight, and used to go to the Langley Movie Theater, in the Langley Park shopping center.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:57 pm

Jake wrote:That certainly was one of the best games of the season. Reading that makes me wish I was around in 1924 to experience it.

Jake, I just realized that if you had been around to see Game 7 in 1924, you would be about 100 years old!

Shirley Povich wrote a great history of the Senators (aka "Nationals") in 1954. It was reprinted a year or two ago...easy to find on Alibris, and a great read. Has all the stories...and from 1923 or '24 onward, Shirley was the guy who covered them (even though he was written up in "Who's Who in American Women" some time in the '50s. "Oops", as the governor said.)

Example...about 1910, the new grandstand at American League Park burned down (later known as Griffith Stadium). The DC fire marshal reported that a plumber's torch had started the fire. Ex-manager Joe Cantillon said, "Yeah, and the plumber was probably playing third base".

langleyparkjoe · Post by **langleyparkjoe** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:13 am

welch wrote:Remember, also: I've known about the Tick Tock since I was about seven or eight, and used to go to the Langley Movie Theater, in the Langley Park shopping center.

Ahhh yes Welch, the entrance was pushed in so you walked underneath that covering, gave it a real movie theater feel to it. Had the posters on the walls as you walked in.

lol. remember dart drug, peoples and waxie maxie tape stores?

welch · Post by **welch** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:09 pm

langleyparkjoe wrote:
welch wrote:Remember, also: I've known about the Tick Tock since I was about seven or eight, and used to go to the Langley Movie Theater, in the Langley Park shopping center.

Ahhh yes Welch, the entrance was pushed in so you walked underneath that covering, gave it a real movie theater feel to it. Had the posters on the walls as you walked in.

lol. remember dart drug, peoples and waxie maxie tape stores?

Of course! I used to stop off at People's Drugstore in PG Plaza...bought my school supplies there. I think I started my jazz collection when Waxie-Maxie's sold off their mono LP's for about $1.99 each. Got a Sonny Rollins ("Saxophone Colossus"...an all-time great) plus Clifford brown / Max Roach with Sonny, some early Coltrane, some Eric Dolphy, who I was "supposed" to like, but, honestly, Dolphy's music was a little too far-out atonal for me.

Countertrey · Post by **Countertrey** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:30 pm

OMG! "Waxie Maxie's "... ummm... they weren't "tape" stores when we were there, though...

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:00 pm

welch wrote:
Jake wrote:That certainly was one of the best games of the season. Reading that makes me wish I was around in 1924 to experience it.

Jake, I just realized that if you had been around to see Game 7 in 1924, you would be about 100 years old!

Shirley Povich wrote a great history of the Senators (aka "Nationals") in 1954. It was reprinted a year or two ago...easy to find on Alibris, and a great read. Has all the stories...and from 1923 or '24 onward, Shirley was the guy who covered them (even though he was written up in "Who's Who in American Women" some time in the '50s. "Oops", as the governor said.)

Example...about 1910, the new grandstand at American League Park burned down (later known as Griffith Stadium). The DC fire marshal reported that a plumber's torch had started the fire. Ex-manager Joe Cantillon said, "Yeah, and the plumber was probably playing third base".

hahaha If I had been around, I probably wouldn't know how to use a computer. I like that story... that's pretty funny.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:07 am

Ozzie Guillen needs a "Don't Be a Clown, Bro" tee-shirt

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:25 pm

Wild pitch!

Yes!

Deadskins · Post by **Deadskins** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:17 pm

How 'bout them Braves? :twisted:

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:10 pm

Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?

Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha

Deadskins · Post by **Deadskins** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:21 pm

Jake wrote:
Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?

Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha

But to come back from 0-9 against a team that has given you fits all season, then take the lead only to give it up again then finally win in extra innings? Incredible game.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:37 pm

Deadskins wrote:
Jake wrote:
Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?

Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha

But to come back from 0-9 against a team that has given you fits all season, then take the lead only to give it up again then finally win in extra innings? Incredible game.

Daughter and I drove down that Saturday for the evening game and the Sunday afternoon game. Very grim walking into Nats Park as the Braves scored two in the first. Then Lannan seemed to settle down in the third and strangled them.

Two good wins, clearly out-classed the Braves. Some bad fielding from Atlanta, and weak pitching in those last two games.

Nats then swept the Mets, and have taken two of three from Milwaukee. Hard to believe it, but the 2012 Nats are very good.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:13 pm

Deadskins wrote:
Jake wrote:
Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?

Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha

But to come back from 0-9 against a team that has given you fits all season, then take the lead only to give it up again then finally win in extra innings? Incredible game.

Yeah, it was a unique game but 1/162. Not much of dent. If anything, it motivated the Nats off more than had they not come back and won it in that manner.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:32 am

Nats about 4 games ahead, 71 wins. Now this is more right with the world: Nats play on into September, and we slowly turn attention to the Redskins with the last ore-season game. A bit strage that Net Nats are leading the NL East, rather than bouncing along about 25 games behind...

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:21 pm

Nats Finish Road Trip With 8-2 Record

ATX_Skins · Post by **ATX_Skins** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:42 pm

Can someone please tell me why the Nats struggle against teams like Philthy yet destroy teams like the Braves?

Deadskins · Post by **Deadskins** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:32 pm

Cause the Nats are all in the Braves' heads. :cry:

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:13 pm

I suspect that the Fillies play harder against the Nats. A matter of pride. The four or five time division champs against the team they never respected that is suddenly talked up all over Sports Entertainment Blather

That and:

- Harper needed that half season at AAA that he had to skip because so many hitters were injured

- Ryan Zimmerman's cortisone shot might be wearing off.

- LaRoche need to rest. Play Tyler Moore

- Missing Desmond and Morse

- Espinosa sometimes makes bad decisions (caught stealing last night in the 9th when down by two)

- Even with good pitching, they won't win if they score only two runs.

- Time for a reboot.

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:37 pm

Hey, Welch!

Are you the poster referenced in the last sentence of this article?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... rg/261451/

DarthMonk