Author Topic: Tex and the Nats... (Read 168730 times)

Dunn and Hudson are not the answers. Despite not getting Tex we shouldn't go crazy and shell out money for these guys. Yes, they need to spend some money but it's not wise at all to just throw money on players just because they are available. It has to be the right player.

Agreed. But, in this year's FA market who is the "right player?" We don't have what's needed to trade for Fielder or Gonzalez and the status quo is unacceptable: Meat and NJ are jokes, albeit for different reasons, and, as I've posted elsewhere, another year like last year might relegate the Nats to permanent afterthought status in the DC market. I respect the effort the team made in the Teixeira pursuit but what it was always a longshot and what happens next is the important question.

BerkeleyNat · « **Reply #3783 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:39:36 pm »

Quote from: Natskins on December 23, 2008, 04:34:10 pm

I vote that we close it and light a match to it.

And then piss on it.

BerkeleyNat · « **Reply #3784 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:40:19 pm »

Quote from: natsfan4evr on December 23, 2008, 04:34:41 pm

Think the Yankees are willing to trade Nick Swisher?
What could we possibly offer them? They already have the world

Swisher? Isn't he just a little bit better than Casto? They can keep him.

sportsfan882 · « **Reply #3785 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:40:53 pm »

Quote from: BerkeleyNat on December 23, 2008, 04:40:19 pm

Swisher? Isn't he just a little bit better than Casto? They can keep him.

Yeah, Swisher sucks. Big bust.

spidernat · « **Reply #3786 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:41:10 pm »

Maybe our "attempts" to land Teixeira will infuriate both Young and Johnson so that they will demand to be traded for feeling disrespected.

ronnynat · « **Reply #3787 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:41:36 pm »

I wonder what JeffCMSB's "source" thinks about this?

spidernat · « **Reply #3788 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:42:32 pm »

Quote from: ronnynat on December 23, 2008, 04:41:36 pm

I wonder what JeffCMSB's "sourfeces" thinks about this?

fixed

Sniper 1 · « **Reply #3789 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:43:04 pm »

Too bad he went to NY, but the Lerners showed they aren't Jeffrey Loria. I feel better about our owners.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #3790 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:43:58 pm »

Only person I'd take from the yankees to start as a final resort would be Xavier Nady at first. I like the dude alot, wish we picked him up last year to finish the season at first. Hes 10x better than Casto, Young, and well cant say about Johnson, never see him play.

Lets go get AGONZ/Fielder/Dunn

Bags · « **Reply #3791 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:45:33 pm »

Quote from: spidernat on December 23, 2008, 04:41:10 pm

Maybe our "attempts" to land Teixeira will infuriate both Young and Johnson so that they will demand to be traded for feeling disrespected.

This just in: Nick Johnson appears to have sustained an injury from feeling disrespected...

spidernat · « **Reply #3792 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:46:35 pm »

Quote from: Bags on December 23, 2008, 04:45:33 pm

This just in: Nick Johnson appears to have sustained an injury from feeling disrespected...

Will that land him on the 15 day DL?

MrMadison · « **Reply #3793 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:47:26 pm »

Quote from: spidernat on December 23, 2008, 04:46:35 pm

Will that land him on the 15 day DL?

15-day DL = 4 months in Nick Johnson Time.

BerkeleyNat · « **Reply #3794 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:47:36 pm »

It's not that bad....imagine how they feel over at OH? Kinda like this:

hammondsnats · « **Reply #3795 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:47:58 pm »

From the AP story

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"We would have loved to have had the player, who appealed to us because of the special circumstances of where he's from and where we are. We diverted from our plan to try to get him," said Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail. "But at the end of the day, it was just too much to pay for one player. It would handicap our ability to go forward."

The Washington Nationals also held talks. General manager Jim Bowden said his team's owners "demonstrated their commitment to win, when they stepped up in negotiations ... at the highest level."

"We are disappointed we weren't able to sign him," Bowden wrote in an e-mail to the AP, "and will now turn our attention to several other opportunities to improve our major league club this offseason."

haha