Author Topic: NL East Race Watch (Read 203580 times)

so after last night, can we stop with the "there is no way the nationals can beat x pitcher" nonsense? We just demolished the possible AL Cy Young winner. This is a great team guys.

Slateman · « **Reply #2391 on:** August 30, 2014, 07:47:31 am »

Quote from: Squab on August 28, 2014, 11:31:39 pm

I miss mitlen.

Frankly, I'm glad the putz is gone

Baseball is Life · « **Reply #2392 on:** August 30, 2014, 07:58:22 am »

Quote from: sph274 on August 30, 2014, 06:18:48 am

so after last night, can we stop with the "there is no way the nationals can beat x pitcher" nonsense? We just demolished the possible AL Cy Young winner. This is a great team guys.

This team has been beating aces for years, not just this year. People just started to notice it this year.

I love going against top guys. I think the pressure is on their team. They are expected to win. If things don't go right, it can deflate the ace's team and a real boost for yours.

PebbleBall · « **Reply #2393 on:** August 30, 2014, 08:13:09 am »

Magic number 23

Mathguy · « **Reply #2394 on:** August 30, 2014, 09:07:34 am »

Slate should be looking in the mirror with that thought

Quote from: Slateman on August 30, 2014, 07:47:31 am

Frankly, I'm glad the putz is gone

houston-nat · « **Reply #2395 on:** August 30, 2014, 09:25:29 am »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on August 30, 2014, 07:58:22 am

This team has been beating aces for years, not just this year. People just started to notice it this year.

Levale Speigner vs. Johan Santana

PebbleBall · « **Reply #2396 on:** August 30, 2014, 09:30:23 am »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on August 30, 2014, 07:58:22 am

This team has been beating aces for years, not just this year. People just started to notice it this year.

It's uncanny, even Stephen Strasburg turns pedestrian when he sees a Nationals uniform.

rbw5t · « **Reply #2397 on:** August 30, 2014, 09:51:02 am »

Quote from: rbw5t on August 29, 2014, 05:39:57 pm

I'm generally an optimist too, and I think the message from having been able to avoid long losing streaks is that the team is good ... but ... I am worried, after the Phillies series, about the possibiblity having a really really bad stretch coming up, to where it feels like the wheels are coming off. Maybe we go 4-2 on the west coast and everything is fine, but, just imagine this:

We've already lost 4 of 5
Say we go 1-2 vs Seattle and get swept in LA, or vice versa -- not likely maybe, but certainly not unthinkable. That's 1-5 on the west coast swing, to make it 2-8 over the last 10. Then we come home to the Phillies we just played, and we're reeling -- say they take 2 of 3. Then it's the braves, and we're totally stressed headcases, because now we've lost 12 of our last 15, and they're breathing down our necks. We get swept, because that's how the nightmare goes, they catch us, and we've lost 15 of 18, and have a long 11 game road trip to leave for at just the wrong time.

I'm definitely not saying it's going to happen... I don't expect it to happen and don't think it will happen. But it could happen, and until the first few games out west snap me out of it, I'm scared that it might happen.

Beat King Felix tonight, and I'll tell you about how we're going to win 15 of our next 18 and clinch at home on 9/10!

I knew we'd do it! Undefeated the rest of the way!

Slateman · « **Reply #2398 on:** August 30, 2014, 07:28:07 pm »

Phish up early

Slateman · « **Reply #2399 on:** August 30, 2014, 08:25:03 pm »

3-0 Marlins in the top of the fifth