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Baker says Roark will start Wed for Nats vs #Cubs— Carrie Muskat (@CarrieMuskat) October 10, 2017
― na (NA), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
sounds good, Dusty, you gotta save Strasburg for game 5
― nomar, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
I mean we'll see I guess...
― na (NA), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
apparently strasburg has a cold or something?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
Dusty said Strasburg did throw a bullpen today in anticipation of starting Thursday. So by time game was called, couldn't pitch tomorrow.— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) October 10, 2017
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
They didn't anticipate...today's weather?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
the tone of this article is so obnoxious:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2017/10/10/stephen-strasburg-declines-game-4-start-after-rainout/752350001/
i get it, he's getting paid $175 million, he's expected to tough it out, etc. but these same sportswriters (and fans) will absolutely tear apart a manager over relatively minor things like not bringing in a lefty to face a lefty, benching a player based off of short sample sizes and PvP matchups, etc. everything in baseball is about trying to slightly change the odds that something will happen in an inherently unpredictable game. but when you have a player who knows he's going to incur the wrath of National Nation and still knows that it's better that he doesn't pitch, isn't it possible that he's actually REALLY SICK, and if he's really sick, isn't it better to turn to someone who is healthy? when i'm really sick i can't even check my email without fucking everything up, i can't imagine trying to strike anthony rizzo out during a make or break playoff game.
Nationals manager Dusty Baker tried to cover for Strasburg at their press conference, saying that Strasburg threw a bullpen session Tuesday and was simply unavailable.Only Strasburg actually threw his bullpen session Monday.He didn’t throw a pitch Tuesday.And decided, apparently, that he couldn’t go in Game 4.Unbelievable....“We have full confidence in Tanner,’’ Baker said.Yet he is not Stephen Strasburg.He is not a $175 million pitcher.He is not one of the faces of the franchise.There’s a reason why he was the Nationals’ fourth choice to start a playoff game.
Only Strasburg actually threw his bullpen session Monday.
He didn’t throw a pitch Tuesday.
And decided, apparently, that he couldn’t go in Game 4.
Unbelievable.
...“We have full confidence in Tanner,’’ Baker said.
Yet he is not Stephen Strasburg.
He is not a $175 million pitcher.
He is not one of the faces of the franchise.
There’s a reason why he was the Nationals’ fourth choice to start a playoff game.
hey Bob Nightengale on Twitter: FUCK OFF
Also you suck at writing
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
it's so dumb that I suspect gamesmanship
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
Also.
You suck.
At writing.
― qualx, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
maybe he gets a little dorito every time he hits enter twice in a row.
yum
i love it
there's cheese all over my keyboard
i can't stop
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
That reason is this:
He's trash.
Human filth.
His change up is a change down.
He misses bats so much he wants to see them more, so what does he do?
He gives up more hits. Intentionally.
He's in the pocket of big bat. And he's a pitcher.
― nomar, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
looool
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
I miss Plaschke variations.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 07:05 (six years ago) link
hmm the cubs are apparently sticking with arrieta too instead of jumping to hendricks. i know bullpenning is getting criticized these days but i'd be ok with hendricks being ready to come out of the bullpen if arrieta starts to struggle. he hasn't pitched a good game in a while.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
Dusty goin' Moldy with these Strasburg excuses
Baker: "Alot of my team is under the weather with the change of weather, A/C, hotel...this is the time of year for mold around Chicago". pic.twitter.com/3dalgrTwLW— Erin Hawksworth (@ABC7Erin) October 10, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/stephen-strasburg-and-nationals-commit-biggest-error-of-the-season/2017/10/11/fdcab2de-ae81-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.5ee0fb43a5ac
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
hmmmm
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/try-to-tell-the-difference-between-jake-arrieta-and-tanner-roark/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
lol
BREAKING: Stephen Strasburg now likely to start for #Nats today in Game 4, source says. @MLB @MLBNetwork— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) October 11, 2017
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
jake arrieta just caught a cold
― nomar, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
dusty playing the long con
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
too weak to be a con (even apart from making his star pitcher look like a wimp). it's not like the cubs have to prepare for a different quarterback or something -- they just saw strasburg five days ago, they'll be ready for whomever
if dusty wanted to be vague he could have said 'strasburg has the flu; if he can go tomorrow he will, if not, then roark will.' this was just half-assedness
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
It's of course a cliche that there's a Trump tweet for every occasion, but this is stretching the genre.... https://t.co/8NELAe0Hiu— Marc Fisher (@mffisher) October 11, 2017
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/if-hes-under-the-weather-stephen-strasburg-shouldnt-pitch/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
Nats BA in NLDS: .121 (11-for-91)Nats expected BA, based on Statcast exit velo/launch angle: .218 (~20-for-91)9 hits over 3 games— Andrew Simon (@AndrewSimonMLB) October 11, 2017
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
Somebody sent Strasburg a sexy-nurse singing-telegram message like in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
― P as in pterodactyl (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
def not looking that sick
batting Werth 2nd is dumb tho
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
strikes out the side for a SHUTDOWN INNING
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
nice bunt
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
batting Werth is dumb
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Weather looks nasty
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
strasburg a True National after all
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
wowwwww
― Spottie, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
RIP
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
Awesome - stoked for Taylor
― timellison, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Threw him two fastballs right down the middle
i like this nats team.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 October 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
yeah
― Spottie, Thursday, 12 October 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
i like turner, rendon, doolittle and scherzer -- that's pretty much it. and i hate all dc-area teams and their fans
already so tired of the cubs that i guess i'm still rooting for them tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 October 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
during climactic Rizzo-Madson faceoff bar was playing Modest Mouse's "3rd Planet"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
i like Taylor bcz he looks like Willie McGee/E.T.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
and i hate all dc-area teams and their fans
same. nats fans deserve nothing
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 October 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
i live here and if the nats even go to the WS i'm moving away forever
― qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
<3 the Expos, you guys are balls.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 12 October 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
but qualx, the Homestead Grays don't play there anymore
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
first off they do second off i don't get the joke
― qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
i used to live there but the nats fans were so shitty i had to move away
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
my mistake!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:12 (six years ago) link
loved the expos. these are not the expos
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:12 (six years ago) link
i went to a game at nats stadium this year and every single nats fan is an angry rich uncle wearing a fleece LL Bean jacket, and they all looked miserable
i don't want to toot the "my team's fans are better" horn but it was an o's game (the infamous rain makeup) and i had to listen to the people behind me complaining about o's fans acting like actual sports fans and it was the most DC thing ever
― qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
it's ok morbs i'm sure it would've been a great burn if was smarter