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Offline shoeshineboy

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #25: September 13, 2010, 07:41:23 PM »
Watching the Nats is just fascinating. It is amazing how many times I see things I have never seen before. Giving up a run in an inning without yielding a hit or an error. Walk, walk, balk, balk. That's a new one.

Offline Lintyfresh85

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #26: September 13, 2010, 07:41:48 PM »
It sounds weird to say this... but maybe Maya shouldn't throw a fastball.

His offspeed pitches seem to generate a lot of swing and misses.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #27: September 13, 2010, 07:43:41 PM »
Every nonknuckleballer's best pitch is his fastball, as it sets up the offspeed stuff.  You know this.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #28: September 13, 2010, 07:45:44 PM »
I'd venture to say Trevor Hoffman disagrees with you.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #29: September 13, 2010, 07:46:40 PM »
That aboy "Stick it in his rear"!

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #30: September 13, 2010, 07:47:53 PM »
I'd venture to say Trevor Hoffman disagrees with you.
The exception that proves the rule.  And he isn't a starter.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #31: September 13, 2010, 07:50:40 PM »
Is it safe to turn the game back on yet?

Offline Sharp

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #32: September 13, 2010, 07:51:28 PM »
Kinda.

Offline EdStroud

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #33: September 13, 2010, 07:52:00 PM »
Is it safe to turn the game back on yet?
got out of it. 4-0

Offline Sharp

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #34: September 13, 2010, 07:56:35 PM »
 :lol: Apparently Maya can hit.

Offline PC

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #35: September 13, 2010, 08:16:39 PM »
At what point is calling Maya a bust, not premature?

Offline Obed_Marsh

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #36: September 13, 2010, 08:29:45 PM »
At what point is calling Maya a bust, not premature?

When he is pitching without that crazy blister.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #37: September 13, 2010, 08:34:49 PM »
At what point is calling Maya a bust, not premature?

Are you serious? Really?

Don't be that guy.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #38: September 13, 2010, 08:35:52 PM »
1-2-3 hater tots.

Dude. This thread is dead. :?

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #39: September 13, 2010, 08:40:41 PM »
Are you serious? Really?

Don't be that guy.

I'm not saying he's a bust.  There has to be a measure, a metric, to determine whether he's a bust or not.  I just asked what that is.

I certainly wouldn't say it's two starts.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #40: September 13, 2010, 08:45:02 PM »
Ray Knight cannot blow Espinosa any harder. Goodness gracious!

Offline bglide

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #41: September 13, 2010, 08:45:03 PM »
This offense is pathetic.  And Maya sucks.  Lerner's spending money on bums like Maya and not Dunn baffles my mind. 

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #42: September 13, 2010, 08:47:55 PM »
to be fair, Maya isn't used to pitching without a cigar break between innings.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #43: September 13, 2010, 08:50:52 PM »
Howdy.  See I haven't missed much.

Offline Coladar

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #44: September 13, 2010, 08:58:36 PM »
Again, Maya does a damn good job... Except for one inning. I don't care what anyone says, someone who can shut down teams totally 5/6 innings, and that one inning clearly due to nerves? The guy wasn't in the minors long enough. He clearly isn't adjusted to pitching in the majors and is still ridiculously anxious. I'll take a pitcher that's dominant 5/6 innings his first two starts any day of the week. I think Maya has shown he can be what he was hyped to be, if he can get over the nerves and other kinks.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #45: September 13, 2010, 09:07:29 PM »
The guy wasn't in the minors long enough. He clearly isn't adjusted to pitching in the majors and is still ridiculously anxious.

Isn't this guy supposed to be 29 and have won the Cuban equivalent of the Cy Young award?  Wasn't the big selling point on Maya that he was major league ready and didn't need much seasoning?  One swallow doesn't make a summer but I think there's a reason the Nats got him instead of the other clubs.  From what we've seen so far he looks like another overhyped and overpaid bum.

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #46: September 13, 2010, 09:08:06 PM »
Isn't this guy supposed to be 29 and have won the Cuban equivalent of the Cy Young award?  Wasn't the big selling point on Maya that he was major league ready and didn't need much seasoning?  One swallow doesn't make a summer but I think there's a reason the Nats got him instead of the other clubs.  From what we've seen so far he looks like another overhyped and overpaid bum.

Just like Marquis, huh?

Offline EdStroud

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #47: September 13, 2010, 09:14:10 PM »
Again, Maya does a damn good job... Except for one inning. I don't care what anyone says, someone who can shut down teams totally 5/6 innings, and that one inning clearly due to nerves? The guy wasn't in the minors long enough. He clearly isn't adjusted to pitching in the majors and is still ridiculously anxious. I'll take a pitcher that's dominant 5/6 innings his first two starts any day of the week. I think Maya has shown he can be what he was hyped to be, if he can get over the nerves and other kinks.
The 2 balks in the same inning was odd.  Let him pitch some and then start him up fresh next year.  What else can the Nationals do, right?

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #48: September 13, 2010, 09:23:37 PM »
we're in the ninth inning and haven't made it to page 3 yet.  This team doesn't seem to care, nor do the fans anymore.

The strasburg-mania was fun while it lasted....

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Re: Nationals @ Braves, Game 1
« Reply #49: September 13, 2010, 09:23:46 PM »
tough to watch