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« Reply #275: August 23, 2024, 03:48:57 PM »
alright Juan, look across the field on Monday. You can keep playing with the team that never wins in NY, or come home to DC and share the field with Crews and Wood for the next 10 years or so.

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« Reply #276: August 25, 2024, 12:09:50 AM »
Looks like there going to be a “come home Soto” chant on Monday.

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« Reply #277: August 25, 2024, 02:47:29 AM »
It would be amazing but there’s no way in hell the Lerners will pay it. Like zero chance lol

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« Reply #278: August 25, 2024, 11:07:23 AM »
Looks like there going to be a “come home Soto” chant on Monday.

All they need now is a beer cup snake...

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« Reply #279: August 25, 2024, 03:59:02 PM »
i'll break out my red Soto #22 jersey for tomorrow.

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Re: Juan Soto, Yankee
« Reply #281: August 27, 2024, 10:34:35 AM »
Soto ovation tonight: https://x.com/stoolbaseball/status/1828204155015729358/mediaviewer
the entire ballpark, Nats fans and NYY followers, were all up.

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« Reply #282: August 27, 2024, 02:55:18 PM »
the entire ballpark, Nats fans and NYY followers, were all up.

If Yankee fans were smart they should of booed. Soto would of thought it was Nats fans.

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« Reply #283: August 27, 2024, 02:58:27 PM »
If Yankee fans were smart they should of booed. Soto would of thought it was Nats fans.
Until they boo him later for not hitting

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Re: Juan Soto, Yankee
« Reply #284: August 27, 2024, 03:39:15 PM »
Newsday is the biggest newspaper on Long Island.

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« Reply #285: August 27, 2024, 04:05:38 PM »
Help drive up the price! 

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« Reply #286: August 28, 2024, 06:44:03 AM »
Ain't no way our current owners spend what it's going to take.

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« Reply #287: August 28, 2024, 10:34:29 AM »
Newsday is the biggest newspaper on Long Island.
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Maybe outside of Scherzer or Zim I can't think of a more beloved Nat? Hell, this fanbase may actually love him more than Zim at this point.

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« Reply #288: August 28, 2024, 10:38:51 AM »
Maybe outside of Scherzer or Zim I can't think of a more beloved Nat? Hell, this fanbase may actually love him more than Zim at this point.
if he came back I think he'd top them both. His style I think clicks with the fans more than Zim. No one projected Max's fire, but Soto is every day.

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« Reply #289: August 28, 2024, 10:54:31 AM »
Maybe outside of Scherzer or Zim I can't think of a more beloved Nat? Hell, this fanbase may actually love him more than Zim at this point.

Behind Zimm and Max you'd have to argue among Strasburg, Soto, Kendrick, and Werth.

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« Reply #290: August 28, 2024, 11:17:38 AM »
Zimmerman is the old head Nat fan's favorite player. If you moved here after 2012, you were probably a Harper guy. Harper guys seamlessly moved to Soto. If you showed up basically starting in 2018, you're a Soto guy.

Strasburg and Scherzer were always very popular, but I think it favorite players in DC went Zim-Harper-Soto-....maybe Abrams? With Trea Turner being right up there with them and the pitchers

There was a moment before his injury that Stephen Strasburg was as big a story as any player the Nationals have ever had. I have been to Nationals playoff games, including the first ones in 2012, and a World Series game. I went to his fifth or sixth home start and I think that home game atmosphere stood up maybe not at World Series level, but damn close with an early crowd and fans treating a 2 strike count in the second inning like the ninth inning of a playoff game. The injury dimmed that a bit.

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« Reply #291: August 28, 2024, 11:38:35 AM »
Zimmerman is the old head Nat fan's favorite player. If you moved here after 2012, you were probably a Harper guy. Harper guys seamlessly moved to Soto. If you showed up basically starting in 2018, you're a Soto guy.

Strasburg and Scherzer were always very popular, but I think it favorite players in DC went Zim-Harper-Soto-....maybe Abrams? With Trea Turner being right up there with them and the pitchers

There was a moment before his injury that Stephen Strasburg was as big a story as any player the Nationals have ever had. I have been to Nationals playoff games, including the first ones in 2012, and a World Series game. I went to his fifth or sixth home start and I think that home game atmosphere stood up maybe not at World Series level, but damn close with an early crowd and fans treating a 2 strike count in the second inning like the ninth inning of a playoff game. The injury dimmed that a bit.

I'm still a Ryan Church truther. That damn wall though...

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« Reply #292: August 28, 2024, 12:04:55 PM »
Howie will always be my favorite Nat...and it's not even close...

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Re: Juan Soto, Yankee
« Reply #293: August 28, 2024, 01:01:27 PM »
This guy will always be Senor Nat:


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« Reply #294: August 28, 2024, 01:14:55 PM »
Zimm, Soto, Crews. :)

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« Reply #295: August 28, 2024, 01:38:14 PM »
Howie will always be my favorite Nat...and it's not even close...
I thought it was Butkus.

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« Reply #296: August 28, 2024, 02:53:06 PM »
Jose Vidro, Chad Cordero, Nick Johnson.

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« Reply #297: August 28, 2024, 10:47:59 PM »
I think it's interesting that Juan Soto is still wildly popular among the Nats fanbase and Harper obviously is not. It feels like if the election for mayor of DC had been in 2019 instead of 2018, Jonathan Papelbon could have won it by just playing ads of him choking Bryce Harper. I wonder if that changes if Soto signs with the Mets but I think there's a real chance it doesn't.

Personally I'm a Scherzer guy, that's the guy I will be telling kids about as an old man. And it looks like CJ Abrams tenure as the face of the franchise is ending with the Crews and Wood callups.

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« Reply #298: August 28, 2024, 10:53:07 PM »
Harper would be beloved here if we won a WS with him being a major contributor. Soto will always have that.

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« Reply #299: August 28, 2024, 11:00:44 PM »
I think it's interesting that Juan Soto is still wildly popular among the Nats fanbase and Harper obviously is not. It feels like if the election for mayor of DC had been in 2019 instead of 2018, Jonathan Papelbon could have won it by just playing ads of him choking Bryce Harper. I wonder if that changes if Soto signs with the Mets but I think there's a real chance it doesn't.

Personally I'm a Scherzer guy, that's the guy I will be telling kids about as an old man. And it looks like CJ Abrams tenure as the face of the franchise is ending with the Crews and Wood callups.
The story when Harper left was that Harper turned down a big offer to get a bit more money elsewhere. It wasnt until much later that it was reported how terrible the offer was, and that Harper sent Boras back multiple times to try and get a deal with much less deferred money. But the damage was done and the story that he loafed it and ran for a bag of cash has remained.

Soto won't get booed if he signs with the Mets. Scherzer didnt. Fans still cheer Turner and Schwarber. They boo Harper over some silly perceived notion of being slighted and after watching everyone else boo him for being the heel.  They watched everyone else do it so they assumed they were supposed to as well.