Kilgore: Henry Rodriguez was just filthy. If he could just be consistent, I would stop wondering why they traded Josh Willingham for him.
Kilgore, 1956: "If Whitey Herzog could just hit more homers, he'd be like Mickey Mantle...without the switch-hitting".
Kilgore, 1958: "If you just listen to the bat hit the ball, Albie Pearson is just like Ted Williams".
Kilgore, 1961: "If Bennie Daniels could keep throwing strikes, he'll be just like Ralph Terry".
etc etc...you can have loads of fun with old Nats players like Chuck Cottier and Bud Zipfel, or Don Zimmer, Yes, that Don Zimmer. Or the late-50s teams: there was a subset of old-time Nats fans who made up the Herbie Plews Fan Club, since only we and Shirley Povich remembered Plews. Yes, there were two of us.
Wow, this was a bad game!