Making baseball Dusty again: Bryce Harper and the 2016 Nationals

really, how could i have doubted that at this point Dusty would have given Ben Revere 289 PA with a .213/.260/.291 slashline

And so the Corey Patterson cycle continues...

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/195335044/papelbon-reportedly-requests-release/

DCExpos 6 minutes ago
What a wasted trip to Nats Park this morning... and in this heat, too. I go to help Pap clean out his locker and there's a line of 156 others waiting to do the same thing.

@washingnats
I thought Ken Griffey Sr. [before the knee injuries] and Mickey Rivers were the fastest runners I ever saw. But Turner is tops on my list.

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"'For me I'm getting up there on the all-time closing list and that's important to me. When Theo (Epstein) had me as a young kid in Boston and he wanted to start to me and I said, 'No, I'm a closer, that's what I want to be, and that's who I am.' This is what I envisioned. I envisioned chasing Mariano and I've told Mariano that at many All-Star games, 'I'm coming after you.'" - Jonathan Papelbon, last July

Only 284 to go.

it's funny until the tigers sign him

@KennyDucey
Only time I ever covered Papelbon, he walked into the clubhouse, turned off The Doors & put on a song called "Vote For Trump" at max volume

and you can hear it here!

http://deadspin.com/jonathan-papelbon-subjected-his-teammates-to-terrible-p-1785311344

still better than the doors

forgot abt this graphic from murphs playoff run last yr, prophetic!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR3PczGWwAA-E7a.png:large

Saw the Saturday game vs the Phillies, Nats Park is very pleasant. Really happy to see the Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson statues. Would have liked a little more Expos memorabilia around, but all is forgiven on a Harper home run.

today the mets ibb'd murphy to get to harper

and struck Harper out.

Murphy has mystery leg ailment

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17606837/daniel-murphy-washington-nationals-misses-fourth-straight-game

no he has a "strain in his buttocks"

https://twitter.com/JamalCollier/status/779425512288649216

sheffield_inyourbutt.wav

also i didn't know about this "Harper's injured shoulder" rumor til this week

Ramos has a torn ACL.

@chasehughesCSN
GM Mike Rizzo said Strasburg is unlikely to pitch in NLDS.

"Spencer Kieboom"

wait till you see his younger brother carter kieboom

@jorgeccastillo
Dusty Baker pregame summary: said his team "is a baby-making team" and finished with a Tupac reference.

that's how you get to be a three-time NL manager of the year

@ChrisLingebach
Livan Hernandez will out throw out the ceremonial first pitch for NLDS Game 1, per @VCamillo_Nats. Game 2: Drake and Adam LaRoche. Wow.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3ISX6zWYAEIM0q.jpg:small

decent