Play'in the Sillies

- Can we find an outfielder to hit above .240 ????

- Da Meat Hook to the rescue ??? Perhaps if we could just find a place for both he and Nick in the lineup. D. Young still needs to shed about ten. But that's a far cry from Spring Training when he needed to shed 30!

- Did anybody think Nick was gonna last the season?

- The need to score runs in bunches is perhaps the biggest problem this year facing the team. The inability to knock in runs with less than two outs and runners on
3rd, 2nd and 3rd or the bases loaded has lead to our demise this year. I don't have the stats to back up this observation, but suffice it to say that we end up usually with one run when we should be getting 2 or even 3 or more.

We'll be printing those playoff tickets when we can deliver those additional runs. It will require a very good 5 hole hitter and perhaps somebody much better than Nick or Da Meat Hook in the 4 spot. Also, the outfield is in dire need of free agency!

Lannan to the rescue!

_ A much needed WIN from a part of the future. I remember the time when the Braves brought up a triple threat of Smoltz, Avery and Glavine. Let's hope Lannan is the first of such a triple threat!

- Austin Kearns. I drop the OUTstin today only because of the revelation of his elbow injury. If this injury, unrevealed until now, has be the bane of his hitting existence, .187, 3 hr and 11 rbis, then somebody in this organization needed to alert! If this is a recent phenomenom, then we are in need of something more than Kearns (.187), Dukes (.075) and Wily Mo ????

THE DEFINITION OF BAD: May 17, 2008

Game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the second. Boone on Third with One Out. First pitch. Milledge, hitting .245, grounds out to the Pitcher on a bad pitch. OUTstin Kearns, hitting .192 and 2 for his last 26, takes a strike right down the middle for strike three. That is why we are in last place. It is an issue of talent, attitude and the ability to win. PATHETIC!

BergMANN!

- 1-0 and 7 strong for a guy who has always had it in him and actually in my mind got a quick hook from Manny when he got sent down. He had to pitch his arse off because the runs are still hard to come by on this "iron" deprieved unit.

- Here's to Lannan, Redding, Perez, Hill and Bergmann...healthy and with more runs!

- Guzie slipped under .300 for the first time in a while, and OUTsin is .192 and well below MENDOZA. Haven't we seen enough here to turn the page and send some type of a message to the youth and the aged on this team that there will be a move to future winning mixture for the Nats. Hell, let Dukes try it everyday in Right. If by August he is hitting a buck and a half, then ship his atse out too!

Nats-Mets and Redding

- Redding looks SHARP!....one long pitch to FREAK'IN SCHNEIDER!!!!!!

- Scrouging for hits: 2 through 5! finishing strong with 5 runs so far thru 8!

- Interesting to see Manny use Rauch early and to have him hit thru the ninth to pitch the bottom.

- Always liked Marlon Anderson, and would have loved to have seen him rejoin Nats. But Belliard had great numbers from last year...and who knew he'd start off so poorly. Lopez looking good, and tonight as well.

Glad the Mets came along!

- 10 RUNS every night and it would be like having Soriano & Jose around again! OOPS!

- Milledge luvs his old mates...but do they luv him???? NOT! NATS!

- Glad O. Perez got the run support.

- Zim took a little shalak up on the arm.

- Nick Johnson is a BB machine with the TERMINAL Outs behind him.

Hill shines in the rain....

BUT THE BULLPEN STILL SUCKS!!!!!! WAY TO GO AYALA

- This charade called the Nats Bullpen could not have been worse this year from last.

- Two shots at winning this mess...or I'll see you tomorrow

Swim'in with um

- Milledge ROBBED early!

- Nick Johnson a league leader in walks due to absolutley NO ONE WORTH A DAMN hitting behind him....That means OUTsin Kearns

- O'Connor has something seriously wrong with his pitching motion. He threw one 42 feet! then gave up a run with a wild pitch. He had a brain fart on a play in Houston a few nights back. I'm wondering about his future. Getting the ball up all night is not good....he will be throwing one very long, very soon! Manny hooked him in disgust....I say he should be headed to Harrisburg shortly.