Wire Taps: Florida Marlins' Perspective, Wes Helms On The Washington Nationals' Nyjer Morgan.

They shall not do anything but stand there and let us strike them out when they’re here.

“not stealing bases” and “rolling over and playing dead”. There are a lot of teams out there who score a lot of runs and win a lot of games without hardly ever stealing bases.

But, Marlins = bad sports

but all this belly aching by the Marlins about baseball etiquette is b.s. The simple fact of the matter is that Volstad had absolutely no business throwing at Morgan the second time and Sanchez took a nasty cheap shot when he clotheslined Morgan. And Helms can whine all he wants but when they’ve got a speedster like Morgan on base, now with and axe to grind, who has a reputation for stealing at every opportunity, well shame on them for not being able to hold him!

Nyjer running over the catcher was a bad decision. It MAY have cost the Nats the game, but it didn’t "actually" cost them the game. I was as upset as everyone else that he made the wrong decision. But it was a legitimate baseball play and in fact if the catcher had dropped the ball he’d have been getting high fives and everyone would be talking about what a good hard nosed play it was. (As opposed to the bonehead play he made the other night against the Cardinals when he mysteriously “bumped” the Cardinals catcher instead of touching home plate. That play was just baffling to me and speaks to why I don’t see him as a starter for the Nats, but I didn’t see it as an attempt to injure.)
  
Rob, with all due respect, I disagree with your argument about how stealing second and third only gave the Nats one tenth of a percent (or whatever) more chance to win the game and was therefore bad baseball. They were practically giving him the bases. If the pitcher was holding him on, and he tries to steal, then, yeah, that’s bad baseball. But they weren’t and as a result the steal of second eliminated the chance of a double play, and the steal of third allowed him to score on a sac fly. If he had not stolen those bases the Nats would not have scored the run. What, because the score was 14-3 the Nats shouldn’t try to score more runs? Witness the Braves loss to the Rockies just the other night after being up 10-1. Afterwards the Rockies manager says ‘’What an effort.The thing I’ve fallen in love with these players is they don’t quit. We were short-handed pitching and then offensively, here we go, and we started chipping away. This is the icing on the cake.’’
Saying Nyjer shouldn’t “steal” a base (when it’s being handed to him, and that an important distinction) with the team is down 14-3 because it only increases the chance of winning by a small percentage is a little like saying a batter shouldn’t try to get a hit because the score is 14-3 for the same reason.
You get a run here and you get a run there and then pray for some long ball. Who didn’t think that when the Nats got to within 5 runs in the 7th that the game was in reach? What were the chances of them winning at that point? If they had in fact gone on to win, perhaps we then be talking about how Nyjer had sparked the team.

… Marlins = Whiny little crybabies, or at least that seems to be the impression they give with the, “but.. but.. he stole bases after we hit him! And they were behind! Waaaah!”