I would be extremely Pist off!! Stupid asses should of shut Strassburg down a long long time ago and te started him up in early September. I hope they come back in games 4 and 5 but not today.
If i were a Nats fan,
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I am a Nationals fan....sort of. Never been a huge baseball fan but always kept up with it growing up and would watch the playoffs.
No rhyme or reason to it but very young in the early 80s I picked Montreal as my team. The Braves were on TV every day and just about everyone was a Braves fan. Not sure why I picked the Expos but I did.
I remember watching them get young talent only to lose them to free agency. Then came 1994 and they had the best record in baseball after 120 games or so. And the strike that ended the season.
By 1995 all the talent was gone....at some point even the manager's son (Moises Alou) didn't even stay around.
I gave up on baseball for the most part. The homerun derby years were an absolute joke. Got into betting around 10 years ago or so and that's the main thing that brought me back.
Can't say I'm some kind of die hard Nats fan but if I had a team, that would be it. And I agree, don't understand the strategy on Strasburg AT ALL. Makes no sense...
No rhyme or reason to it but very young in the early 80s I picked Montreal as my team. The Braves were on TV every day and just about everyone was a Braves fan. Not sure why I picked the Expos but I did.
I remember watching them get young talent only to lose them to free agency. Then came 1994 and they had the best record in baseball after 120 games or so. And the strike that ended the season.
By 1995 all the talent was gone....at some point even the manager's son (Moises Alou) didn't even stay around.
I gave up on baseball for the most part. The homerun derby years were an absolute joke. Got into betting around 10 years ago or so and that's the main thing that brought me back.
Can't say I'm some kind of die hard Nats fan but if I had a team, that would be it. And I agree, don't understand the strategy on Strasburg AT ALL. Makes no sense...
Got Nats and got Over 7 1/2 today. Took Nats in Game 1 and Cards in Game 2 so as you can see I'm more into betting than baseball lol. Hoping they win it though.
What are they saving Strasburg for... the 2013 playoffs? Just keep in mind Natty Lights, you're not given the post season every year. Heck, I'm a Royals fan and attended our last post season game... it was in 1985!!!
As a fan, I have to say this is the year. Put everything you've got into it. This isn't the Yankees. It could easily be decades before it happens again.
I don't know the whole situation with Strasburg. I wouldn't mind risking injury as far as the situation goes but at the same time, I don't want the guy pitching and ruin his career and health.
I just think and agree that they knew how many innings they were going to give him. Why not structure it better so he could play in the playoffs. That said, the playoffs weren't guaranteed all year either. Tough situation. Come on Nats!!
I don't know the whole situation with Strasburg. I wouldn't mind risking injury as far as the situation goes but at the same time, I don't want the guy pitching and ruin his career and health.
I just think and agree that they knew how many innings they were going to give him. Why not structure it better so he could play in the playoffs. That said, the playoffs weren't guaranteed all year either. Tough situation. Come on Nats!!
Please name me a situation that a young player has been shut down for months at a time and then started back up in hopes of pitching at a high level like before they stopped? Pitchers and their arms don't work like that.
However, an option they could have explored but I didn't hear talked about would be to have him transition out of a starters role and just used in the pen earlier in the season. That would have been a more likely scenario.
And even if Strasburg could pitch in the post season, would he cure Washinton's offensive problems?
Yeah, just a tough situation all the way around. Maybe rest several extra days between starts but that's probably similar to shutting him down and re-starting him.
This game is already pissing me off. Hopefully I'll at least get the over.....sigh
This game is already pissing me off. Hopefully I'll at least get the over.....sigh
I agree with you man. Whats the point in having a great pitcher if you can't use him when you need him the most? Do you think Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, and Dwight Gooden were on pitch counts and innings for the season? Fuck no, these guys threw complete games for the entire season and even into the post season. :shrug:
I can't name you a time when one of the best pitchers in baseball was shut down and then benched the last month of the season and then sitting in the playoffs. Has it ever happened? Why not just start his season at the All Star break. Why couldn't they shut him down and then restart him up? Injured pitchers do it all the time.
My bad and nevermind, didn't realize you were the pitching coach expert. I'll stay out of your thread.
wrong, they should have started him later in the season, in hopes to play through the playoffs. nobody gets shut down, then started back up again.
Obviously the Nats screwed this up, they are the ones who are in the Playoffs without their best pitcher. if I was a Nats fan I should be happy with the way they handled the situation.
:sadwave: Playoffs
The difficult part of starting him at the all-star break is hindsight.
If they did that and got oh so close to the playoffs...people would be complaining that they should have been focused the whole season of MAKING the playoffs.
I think it was down to the last 3-4 games before they clinched the division and avoided that 1-game playoff nonsense. And not even Strasburg can guarantee a win there if he is the one pitching...
If they did that and got oh so close to the playoffs...people would be complaining that they should have been focused the whole season of MAKING the playoffs.
I think it was down to the last 3-4 games before they clinched the division and avoided that 1-game playoff nonsense. And not even Strasburg can guarantee a win there if he is the one pitching...
Yeah it's all hindsight, it's easy to be the "Monday Morning QB" and I love to play it. It just sucks cause I really was pulling for this Nats team, really pulling for the Cards to lose until today. Today was easy $$$.
Hope the Nats come back
It is interesting that when it was thought that Carp would be shut down for the season, he commented on a radio show about the Nats thinking about shutting SS down. He said that there are NO guarantees in life and those players who never made the playoffs were probably cringing.
Carp had Tommy John surgery along with many other nerve/elbow surgeries, and had what was told to him "season ending" surgery this summer by removing a rib to prevent nerve damage to his arm and neck.
Bottom line, the Nats better win this series or they could be haunted for a long time. If I was a season ticket holder, I would pay for tickets to a certain date next year. If you don't put your best on the field, don't expect your fans to give their best.
Carp has rings, and puts his all into every time he goes out. That's what Cardinal fans expect anyway.
Carp had Tommy John surgery along with many other nerve/elbow surgeries, and had what was told to him "season ending" surgery this summer by removing a rib to prevent nerve damage to his arm and neck.
Bottom line, the Nats better win this series or they could be haunted for a long time. If I was a season ticket holder, I would pay for tickets to a certain date next year. If you don't put your best on the field, don't expect your fans to give their best.
Carp has rings, and puts his all into every time he goes out. That's what Cardinal fans expect anyway.
