tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post923386453111828911..comments2023-06-25T04:47:18.160-04:00Comments on NationalsFanboyLooser: Shortening My Life, Game by GameMikeHarrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15120210292656990693noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post-50669506050917222452010-06-20T11:31:09.359-04:002010-06-20T11:31:09.359-04:00Fire Riggleman.
I almost soiled myself when I h...Fire Riggleman. <br /><br />I almost soiled myself when I heard Bob Carpenter say "[that] it may be time for Riggleman to put aside the goal of getting everyone 400 at-bats and focus on winning games instead." Whoa. Bob CARPENTER said that??? Things MUST be bad when the paid-for asskisser in the broadcasting booth bites the hand that feedsw it<br /><br />Rizzo really needs to consider replacing Riggleman, who's a LaRussa and Acta schools of baseball team management kinda manager. Next, sit the guys whose mantra seems to be, "I swing at first pitch, no matter what the game situation." I wonder which team Willie Harris, Guzman and Nieves think they play for. Swinging at the first pitch only helps the opposing team.<br /><br />I think the other poster said it well, too. Play a consistent lineup. It's a ball club, not a kumbaya meeting of the local Little League team, in which all must play a certain amount of innings.<br /><br />Lerner needs to get himself a REAL manager--Bobby Valentine is available and would be a REAL solid MANager. Sometimes you gotta lay down the law, in spite of how much less you earn than your most expensive yet least productive players.<br /><br />Modern managers (with a few exceptions) may cause more losses through their current methods than the players themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post-66586787878584925852010-06-20T11:14:23.556-04:002010-06-20T11:14:23.556-04:00JuHEEEEzus...where to begin?
Riggleman is not a m...JuHEEEEzus...where to begin?<br /><br />Riggleman is not a manager, he's a tinkerer. Having played team sports at the highest level (yeah, in the DC area), no coach ever changed the lineup the way Riggo has/does. Adam Kennedy is now relegated to the dog house because, frankly, Riggo's incessant use of the largely ineffective Guzman (obviously trying to get their money's worth out of a slightly above-average player) may account for Kennedy's fall from grace; he's rusty, would you be?<br /><br />Next...the way Zimmerman approaches each pitcher...stands in the exact same place in the box, no matter what the count, no matter how many are on base...he's either stubborn or has had poor coaching (I doubt the latter).<br /><br />More than anything, quit messing with the lineup...leftie-rightie, rightie against leftie pitcher. Listen, if a guy's a good hitter he can hit any pitcher. Enough with this obsessive-compulsive formulaic approach to managing a ball club!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post-58527591187636721552010-06-20T08:50:44.610-04:002010-06-20T08:50:44.610-04:00I don't spend ANY time on the Metro.
Sun'...I don't spend ANY time on the Metro.<br /><br />Sun's shining bright this a.m., maybe today will be different.MikeHarrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120210292656990693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post-87775029304463202942010-06-20T00:47:27.229-04:002010-06-20T00:47:27.229-04:00This team is beating me up enough as it is, I don&...<i>This team is beating me up enough as it is, I don't need it throwing me off an escalator.</i><br /><br />You obviously don't spend much time on Metro if you think that's the worst an escalator can treat you.An Briosca Morhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06855174362787324401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post-57063811237562575972010-06-20T00:41:45.887-04:002010-06-20T00:41:45.887-04:00Ian Desmond has a worse on-base percentage than ei...Ian Desmond has a worse on-base percentage than either Morgan or Guzman (hard to believe, but true.) Probably ought not root for him to hit ahead of the Big 3.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03967066946860270813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478750914084047598.post-91002751986200408682010-06-19T23:02:51.631-04:002010-06-19T23:02:51.631-04:00I feel your pain. I was there for all 20 grueling...I feel your pain. I was there for all 20 grueling innings the past two days. Those were probably the two best pitched back-to-back games the Nats have ever had (seriously, 3 ER, 21 K, only 1 BB for 20 IP) coupled with what has to be the two worst offensive back-to-back efforts in Nats history (8 H, 1 lousy XBH in 20 innings).<br /><br />Who would have thought that Strasburg's arrival would mark the beginning of the downward spiral DESPITE him being even better than advertised?<br /><br />It's probably my fault. I grew up a White Sox fan. All those years of them losing when I rooted for them to win turned into them winning the first two times I ever rooted against them. :(bdrubenoreply@blogger.com