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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #176: September 03, 2012, 03:55:48 PM »
Gosh, Kristina looks like she's four feet tall.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #177: September 03, 2012, 03:55:55 PM »
:w:inning Season!

Yes!

Only the second winning season by a Washington ball team since 1952.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #178: September 03, 2012, 03:56:49 PM »
First winning season ever.


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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #179: September 03, 2012, 03:57:33 PM »
Gosh, Kristina looks like she's four feet tall.

She is  ...   not much more than that.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #180: September 03, 2012, 03:57:36 PM »
 :w: 82!!!!!! :woop: :woop:

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #181: September 03, 2012, 03:58:37 PM »
Yes!

Only the second winning season by a Washington ball team since 1952.

Well?   What was the other one?   :)    Who was on that '52 team?

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #182: September 03, 2012, 04:03:44 PM »
the Bob Shorties got one before they skipped town.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #183: September 03, 2012, 04:06:13 PM »
Tiger Blood, nages

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #185: September 03, 2012, 04:15:08 PM »
Hmmm   ...   no Morse question/comment.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #186: September 03, 2012, 04:19:11 PM »
Well?   What was the other one?   :)    Who was on that '52 team?

THE Bucky Harris managed...third stretch going back to 1924. Mickey Vernon, Pete Runnels, Eddie Yost, Jackie Jensen, and Jim Busby starred. Jensen was traded to Boston a year or two later, and became an AL All-Star over and over. Runnels was a solid .300 hitter. Vernon won his second AL batting title the next year. Yost had about a .400 OB % for his entire 20 year career...had such a good eye that umpires tended to let Yost call close pitches. If Yost took the pitch, it was probably a ball. Busby was an ordinary hitter, but very smooth fielder in the giant-sized Griffith Stadium CF.

I was only 4...didn't start collecting baseball cards until '53...kids on my block taught ourselves to read from the back of the cards.

About '54. Calvin Griffith took day-to-day control of the Nats. My dad thought Calvin was cheap and stupid...replaced Bucky with Chuck Dressen, who won a lot of games with Breooklyn, but, unfortunately, did not bring Jackie Robinson, Duke Snyder, and Roy Campanella. Calvin G. seems to have been dumping salary all through the '50s. Might have been building a farm system, which the team had never really had. That all led to the Griffith team winning the pennant in 1965, but they were the Twins by then.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #187: September 03, 2012, 04:21:48 PM »
Hmmm   ...   no Morse question/comment.

Thumb issue.  I got a buzz on bleacher report!

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #188: September 03, 2012, 04:22:02 PM »
the Bob Shorties got one before they skipped town.

1969...you can read about it in Stephen Walker's "A Whole New Ballgame". That was Ted Williams first year. They won 86 games.

So...87 wins is the next target...will give the 2012 team the best record since 1933 (ignoring the fluky war-time team in 1944 or '45 that finished second. )

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #189: September 03, 2012, 04:22:59 PM »
 :bball: :w: :w: :woop: :panic: :cheers: :cheers:

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #190: September 03, 2012, 04:23:48 PM »
Didnt mean to put the beach ball there.  Fat fingered that one!

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #191: September 03, 2012, 04:40:22 PM »
Didnt mean to put the beach ball there.  Fat fingered that one!

haha I was going to say, one of these is not like the other!

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #192: September 03, 2012, 05:03:05 PM »
Sorry, I missed the inning—what did morse do that was "clown"-like according to some of you?

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #193: September 03, 2012, 05:05:23 PM »
Sorry, I missed the inning—what did morse do that was "clown"-like according to some of you?

Just me.   LOL   

Harper went to catch a fly in Left Center and it appeared he called Morse off.   Morse didn't back off (IMHO) and when he passed in front of Harper, he gave a move like a fake catch.   That's when he was pulled.   I think Davey was pissed about that unprofessional move.   Plus, he played a fly before that like Dave Kingman and that is unforgivable.  :)

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #194: September 03, 2012, 05:08:15 PM »
Attended the game. Crowd seemed dead at first but got decently lively towards the end. Wish there was a breeze but otherwise it was nice. Got to sit in the 300s right off home plate and now I am spoiled, best seats I have had in this ballpark. But a great :w: to attend!

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #195: September 03, 2012, 05:10:03 PM »
Attended the game. Crowd seemed dead at first but got decently lively towards the end. Wish there was a breeze but otherwise it was nice. Got to sit in the 300s right off home plate and now I am spoiled, best seats I have had in this ballpark. But a great :w: to attend!

Well done.

PS Where in the 300's?   I do 315 when I can with the help of a STH.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #196: September 03, 2012, 05:12:42 PM »
Well done.

PS Where in the 300's?   I do 315 when I can with the help of a STH.
311 row C. I'm thinking about 1/4th season tickets and if I got some they would be around there either in row D or higher. That would be pretty sweet.

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #197: September 03, 2012, 05:18:45 PM »
311 row C. I'm thinking about 1/4th season tickets and if I got some they would be around there either in row D or higher. That would be pretty sweet.


That area of the 300's is great.   You can see the whole park; the concourse is within a few rows; HD screen is viewable, etc.   I do "J" (right on the concourse).

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #198: September 03, 2012, 05:20:52 PM »
Attended the game. Crowd seemed dead at first but got decently lively towards the end.

I just got back too.  Burned up my RCR points to get club seats!  Crowd wasn't as into it as most.  Small holiday crowd and waaay too many Cubs fans.

Great game to watch tho' and a really nice win for a winning season. 

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Re: Nationals vs Cubs, Game 1
« Reply #199: September 03, 2012, 05:36:25 PM »
Comparative dates on which rhe Nationals notched their 82nd win...AND THEN THERE WAS JUST ONE - a win against the only pitcher to beat the Nationals in their opening series at the Friendly Confines this season:

2005 - finished 81-81
2011 - finished 80-81
2007 - finished 73-89
2006 - finished 71-91
2010 - finished 69-93
2008 - finished 59-102
2009 - finished 59-103

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TODAY WITH THE '05 OVERACHIEVERS: Saturday 3rd August 2005 the Nationals edge the Phillies in 12, 5-4...record now 70-66...http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=250903120