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Offline welch

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #250: August 17, 2012, 10:32:15 PM »
Bah...3 outs...time to leave it.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #251: August 17, 2012, 10:42:56 PM »
Terrible Dodgers.  The only way we can insure the Braves lose is for us to beat them.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #252: August 17, 2012, 10:45:48 PM »
Super game.  The Beast's grand slam and The Kid's two-run homer - what thrills for the home town crowd.  Let's do it again tomorrow!

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #253: August 17, 2012, 10:48:51 PM »
How the hell did the Dodgers get out of that???

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #254: August 17, 2012, 10:58:06 PM »
Double play by fat ass Juan Rivera

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #255: August 17, 2012, 11:09:37 PM »
lol Paul Janish?! Awful, Dodgers suck

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #256: August 17, 2012, 11:14:58 PM »
Horrible loss. Dodgers have no pen and a crap offense. We are going to sweep them.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #257: August 17, 2012, 11:21:57 PM »
On my Kindle.


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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #258: August 18, 2012, 12:12:30 AM »
OK...4 game lead on Braves. They play Nats soon. Will win that series.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #259: August 18, 2012, 08:11:32 AM »
Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 74th win, each season:

2012 - 17th August (119th match of season)
2005 - 13th September (145th match)
2011 - 20th September (153rd match)
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2007 - finished 73-89
2006 - finished 71-91
2010 - finished 69-93
2008 - finished 59-102
2009 - finished 59-103

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THIS DAY WITH THE '05 OVERACHIEVERS: After a rain-out on the 16th (they would play a doubleheader on the 18th), on Wednesday 17th August 2005 the Nationals would revert to form and lose 4-3 at Philadelphia, snapping a four-match winning streak...record now 63-56...http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=250817122

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Blasted Braves just had to pull that one out in extra innings, didn't they....

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #260: August 18, 2012, 08:12:49 AM »
LAD with runner on 2B 1 ouit.

This is tghe first time in my life -- and I'm 64 -- that I have checked another team's game after a Nats game just too see the standings.


I find myself doing the same and I am older than you.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #261: August 18, 2012, 10:06:38 AM »
Hypest game I've ever attended, Morse's granny was a thing of beauty

Offline Jordanz Meatballz

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #262: August 18, 2012, 10:13:54 AM »
Cardinals and Phillies comebacks last year for me, and the Marlins comeback the other week are my favorites.  Big rallies move me.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #263: August 18, 2012, 11:24:38 AM »
.  The only way we can insure the Braves lose is for us to beat them.

I'm afraid you maybe right. That is why the next series against them is critical.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #264: August 18, 2012, 11:27:46 AM »
Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 74th win, each season:

2012 - 17th August (119th match of season)
2005 - 13th September (145th match)
2011 - 20th September (153rd match)
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2007 - finished 73-89
2006 - finished 71-91
2010 - finished 69-93
2008 - finished 59-102
2009 - finished 59-103


Love these posts.  To expand it a bit, here are the top 15 records in the history of Washington Baseball:

1933 Washington Senators AL 99-53 .651
1925 Washington Senators AL 96-55 .636
2012 Washington Nationals NL 74-45 .622 (after 119 games)
1930 Washington Senators AL 94- 60 .610
1932 Washington Senators AL 93- 61 .604
1912 Washington Senators AL 91- 61 .599
1931 Washington Senators AL 92- 62 .597 
1924 Washington Senators AL 92- 62 .597
1913 Washington Senators AL 90- 64 .584
1945 Washington Senators AL 87- 67 .565
1915 Washington Senators AL 85-68 .556
1927 Washington Senators AL 85-69 .552
1969 Washington Senators AL 86 -76 .531
2005 Washington Nationals NL 81-81 .500
2011 Washington Nationals NL 80-81 .497

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #265: August 18, 2012, 11:29:34 AM »
Love these posts.  To expand it a bit, here are the top 15 records in the history of Washington Baseball:

1933 Washington Senators AL 99-53 .651
1925 Washington Senators AL 96-55 .636
2012 Washington Nationals NL 74-45 .622 (after 119 games)
1930 Washington Senators AL 94- 60 .610
1932 Washington Senators AL 93- 61 .604
1912 Washington Senators AL 91- 61 .599
1931 Washington Senators AL 92- 62 .597 
1924 Washington Senators AL 92- 62 .597
1913 Washington Senators AL 90- 64 .584
1945 Washington Senators AL 87- 67 .565
1915 Washington Senators AL 85-68 .556
1927 Washington Senators AL 85-69 .552
1969 Washington Senators AL 86 -76 .531
2005 Washington Nationals NL 81-81 .500
2011 Washington Nationals NL 80-81 .497

Not even 15 winning seasons. That's a lot of suck.

Offline OldChelsea

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #266: August 18, 2012, 11:46:43 AM »
Love these posts.  To expand it a bit, here are the top 15 records in the history of Washington Baseball:

1933 Washington Senators AL 99-53 .651
1925 Washington Senators AL 96-55 .636
2012 Washington Nationals NL 74-45 .622 (after 119 games)
1930 Washington Senators AL 94- 60 .610
1932 Washington Senators AL 93- 61 .604
1912 Washington Senators AL 91- 61 .599
1931 Washington Senators AL 92- 62 .597 
1924 Washington Senators AL 92- 62 .597
1913 Washington Senators AL 90- 64 .584
1945 Washington Senators AL 87- 67 .565
1915 Washington Senators AL 85-68 .556
1927 Washington Senators AL 85-69 .552
1969 Washington Senators AL 86 -76 .531
2005 Washington Nationals NL 81-81 .500
2011 Washington Nationals NL 80-81 .497

Only those two pennant winners were better than our current edition? That is impressive. (I've actually thought about doing something like this in the GDT's once the current edition notches win# 82.)

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #267: August 18, 2012, 12:08:06 PM »
The 1933 Senators used Nick Altrock to pinch hit? Outstanding!


http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/altroni01.shtml

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #268: August 18, 2012, 12:42:01 PM »
Only those two pennant winners were better than our current edition? That is impressive. (I've actually thought about doing something like this in the GDT's once the current edition notches win# 82.)

Well, I've been tracking the three WS teams in DC history and the 3 best teams in Franchise history in comparison with this one and had been updating once a week or so.  Here's where we stand through 119 games.


1933   78   40   .661
1994   74   40   .649
1925   76   43   .639
2012   75   45   .625
1979   68   51   .571
1924   65   52   .556
1993   62   56   .525

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #269: August 18, 2012, 12:49:13 PM »
Well, I've been tracking the three WS teams in DC history and the 3 best teams in Franchise history in comparison with this one and had been updating once a week or so.  Here's where we stand through 119 games.


1933   78   40   .661
1994   74   40   .649
1925   76   43   .639
2012   75   45   .625
1979   68   51   .571
1924   65   52   .556
1993   62   56   .525

...and the only ones with a better winning percentage than the current edition are the 1925 and 1933 pennant winners and The Greatest Champion That Never Was...rather distinguished company.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #270: August 18, 2012, 12:57:37 PM »
Well, I've been tracking the three WS teams in DC history and the 3 best teams in Franchise history in comparison with this one and had been updating once a week or so.  Here's where we stand through 119 games.


1933   78   40   .661
1994   74   40   .649
1925   76   43   .639
2012   75   45   .625
1979   68   51   .571
1924   65   52   .556
1993   62   56   .525


I've also been comparing the '25 team against this, game by game. The '24 team made a strong stretch run to finish ahead of the Yankees, but the '25 team was good all season. Just like this team. One difference: the '25 team had no injuries to key players, like Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Joe Judge. (Lost the series when Walter Johnson pulled a hamstring stretching a single into a double while dominating the Pirates to win his second game. BUcky Harris still started him in game 7, saying, If you have a game seven, then you pitch Walter Johnson, no matter what (approximately).

There is a fine book about the '33 team: Gary Sarnoff's "The Wrecking Crew of '33". In print and available through Barnes and Noble.


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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #271: August 18, 2012, 02:17:18 PM »
Or go to the next Memoribilia show in Chantilly and get it there from the man himself!

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #272: August 18, 2012, 03:16:55 PM »
Or go to the next Memoribilia show in Chantilly and get it there from the man himself!

+1

(if you live near Chantilly, of course!!!)

By the way, Nick Altrock was carried as "Coach and Clown" for about 30 or 40 years. Griff used to activate him for an at-bat or to pitch an inning toward the end of a season. Altrock and Al Schact, another coach, were the equivalent of  the Presidents' Race: baseball clowns between innings...even had a vaudeville act.

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #273: August 18, 2012, 05:37:08 PM »
The 1933 Senators used Nick Altrock to pinch hit? Outstanding!


http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/altroni01.shtml

Damn, he was older than I am.    :shock: