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Offline Lintyfresh85

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Re: Nationals @ Phillies, Game 2
« Reply #800: May 23, 2012, 09:58:51 AM »
Someone end this thread with something Shakespearean... and then the mods need to lock it up.

Offline houston-nat

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Re: Nationals @ Phillies, Game 2
« Reply #801: May 23, 2012, 10:04:38 AM »
Someone end this thread with something Shakespearean... and then the mods need to lock it up.

If we Phillies have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That we've had them clobber'd here
As their fanboys disappeared.
And that weak and idle team,
E'er more yielding to our dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if they try us, we will fend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned our luck
Now to 'scape the Hamels' plunk,
We will send him to a funk;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good day unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Harper shall restore amends.

Offline welch

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Re: Nationals @ Phillies, Game 2
« Reply #802: May 23, 2012, 10:09:35 AM »
Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 26th win, each season:

2012 - 22nd May (43rd match of season)
2005 - 30th May (51st match)
2010 - 31st May (52nd match)
2006 - 5th June (58th match)
2011 - 5th June (59th match)
2007 - 9th June (62nd match)
2008 - 10th June (66th match)
2009 - 11th July (86th match; last win before All-Star break and last win under Acta)

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A hit, a very palpable hit.

- Shakespeare Hamlet, V, ii.

Historical comparison: 2012 Nats are now nearly even with the pace of the 1925 pennant-winning team, which was 25 - 15. See game summary at http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS1/WS1192505310.shtml

(Oddity: 1925 Nats beat Philadelphia (A's) that game. A's 3B was Jimmy Dykes, who I remember as manager of the Detroit Tigers many years later. Also: compare the box score to last night's game and see how similar baseball is in 2012 to baseball in 1925. The scores are similar, number of hits, errors, steals, caught stealing...)