2017 NLDS: Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals

first off they do second off i don't get the joke

i used to live there but the nats fans were so shitty i had to move away

my mistake!

loved the expos. these are not the expos

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

it's ok morbs i'm sure it would've been a great burn if was smarter

and homestead is in pittsburgh

the average age difference btwn nats and o's fans must've been about 30 years, and the "young" nats fans were all wearing ties anyway

i never promised u a rose garden, Cal Ripken III

definitively more expos enthusiasts outside of montreal than in (if we count the west island out of the municipality).

i mean at least the nats draw some fans.

I won't defend specific Nat-fan assholes, but Washington, D.C. (considered as a city with actual people in it) has been a favorite punching bag of some of the worst people in the universe. So has its largest employer. Morale is low here.

A little bit of success in a sporting realm would be a helpful tonic for my townspeople.

karl and i have both lived in dc, which is probably why we hate its teams/fans

i don't have anything against the wizards, tho. or southeast jerome

My wife and I are friends with a retired couple who used to live/work in DC and are the biggest Nats fans we know -- biggest fans of a sports team I've ever known. We get together with them for dinner once a month, and tonight's the night for that. If we don't wind up turning the game on tonight I'll be amazed. At the very least, they'll shoo us back home early so they can watch the last half.

FWIW, I wouldn't call myself a Nats fan. I have actively negative feelings about the Football Entity That Shall Not Be Named. All the city's other sports teams, combined, have probably accounted for less than two minutes of my attention over the last 41 years.

That said, one hears so much negative stuff said about this city and her people. Can they not just maybe have this one little thing? A pretty good baseball team succeeding?

I guess it's either Gio or Roarke starting tonight; both may pitch

I'd like to see Kershaw in a World Series, but right now, I'm rooting for an Astros/Nationals match-up--neither's ever won, best hitting vs. best front-three starters, Altuve/Harper.

Gio starts

That said, one hears so much negative stuff said about this city and her people. Can they not just maybe have this one little thing? A pretty good baseball team succeeding?

― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:39 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you considered that DC is actually the entirety of hell and it doesn't deserve redemption

just because people who don't live here hate it for the wrong reasons doesn't mean there aren't right reasons

i sympathize with what you're saying, Y.M. Puffin. believe me, i feel bad for the feds. honestly i think i just got tired of going to nats games with 14,000 people in the stands and watching everyone boo whenever there was a pickoff attempt. that is one of my biggest baseball pet peeves! i can't forgive it.

Should have gone with Roark.

D.C. is a good place actually

SCRAM

why is werth batting 2nd again? (as i type that, ron darling says that werth is the best person to bat 2nd with Turner on base, because he averaged 4.5 pitches per PA. but...i still don't think it makes sense)

i think you know the answer

dusty baker is a genius? i don't even know which team i'm rooting for in this game, tbh. i guess i'm rooting for an interesting game.

i'm amazed how Darling gets a lobotomy every fall before the playoffs, but has it undone in time for the next Mets' season.

Wow again!

MT Soopahstah

it's Dusty's game to blow

...as in, leaving Gio in so he can WP in the tying run too, just averted

well this is going til at least 12 ET

(Any district that has dozens of Ethiopian restaurants is all right.)

(I've never warmed to that spongy bread.)

It's panda-shaped relief hero Matt Albers.

you never have to set foot in DC for ethiopian, silver spring is right there

A starting pitcher who has given up four runs in three innings -- and is behind in an elimination game -- was allowed to hit in the fourth inning.

have Maddon and Dusty switched bodies?

Camus Tao Maddon

I love how anytime I leave the TBS app to like answer a text or whatever and then go back in, I'm required to watch the exact same cell phone ad with Bryce Harper every single time, and then the same ad shows up in every ad break too.

better than having to watch bayless and cowherd on the fox app, at least

OTM

Cy-quality aces not doing real well this month

hahahaahah playoff baseball folks

RIP

holy fuck

damn

Wow it is almost as if pitching on short rest in the playoffs is extremely difficult I was told anybody who gave up a run was a choke arti

— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) October 13, 2017

ROBOT CATCHERS NOW

ROBOT PITCHERS NOW

lol wow