Wire Taps: Washington Nationals On MASN Tonight, Announce Cuts Today, But Bryce Harper Not One Of Them.
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 11:48 AM EST
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Print• Programming Note: Tonight's game between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Florida is available for your viewing pleasure on MASN and on MLB.tv, but just so you don't forget...it is at 6:00 pm EST!!!! If you tune it at 7:00 it's going to be the third or fourth inning, so don't forget. Oh, and Bryce Harper will be in the dugout tonight and hopefully in the game and on tv in D.C. sometime late in the game...
• LINKS AND LINKS AND...
• NATS BEAT:
• Twitter: MLB.com's Bill Ladson (@washingats): "The #Nats send Michael Aubrey, Kevin Barker, Jonathan Van Every, Jhonatan Solano, Carlos Maldonado and Jeff Fraizer to Minor League camp."
• "Bryce Harper won't be in next round of Nationals cuts." - MASN's Ben Goessling.
• "Bryce Harper will survive cuts today." - Adam Kilgore, Washington Post.
• "For the love of Bryce Harper: Get ready, Washington. You're about to fall head over heels for the Nationals' newest star." - Dave Sheinin, Washington Post:
"'So [fans] probably figure as soon as he gets done [with his contractual commitment to Washington], he's going to bolt. That's not Bryce. That's not me. That's not us. I want him to be a National for the rest of his life. I would love that for my son.'"
• "Baseball Prospectus sees "good things on the horizon" for Nats." - MASN's Byron Kerr
• "'I have more confidence in my fastball, and I'm throwing my curveball with a little more speed. All my pitches are working pretty good.'" - Yunesky Maya to Bill Ladson - "Off to fast spring start, the Washington Nationals still have key position battles to address." - MLB.com's Bill Ladson
• "Measuring success in March." - MASN's Phil Wood
• "Remember Zach Day, Ryan Drese, Jerome Williams, Daniel Cabrera and Garrett Mock? All were members of the Nationals' Opening Day rotation at some point." - Mark Zuckerman, NatsInsider.com - "Who gets the No. 5 starter's job?"
• "Gaudin makes case for Nats' starting spot SPRING TRAINING." - Fredericksburg.com
• NATSTOWN:
• Photojournallism by Cheryl Nichols, Game Report by Dave Nichols, Nats News Network, "Long Day of Baseball; Nats Split Twi-City Doubleheader."
• "Nationals Buzz: "Getting to know new MASN broadcaster F.P. Santangelo" - MASN's Kristen Hudak
• WTS? = What The Shark? - Sharkadina, Street Shark: Roger Bernadina's Unofficial Blog: "FISH FIGHT!!!!"
• "The Starting Rotation, So Far." - Charlie - The Nationals Review
• "A Fire Sale In New York?" - Mark, Center Field Gate
• "Nats Split Spring Training Doubleheader." - Sue Dinem, NationalsProspects.com
• "How good can Ryan be?" - Harper, Nationals Baseball
• Your Daily Message From The Dalai Lama On Twitter (@DalaiLama): "Whatever we do for others, whatever sacrifices we make, it should be voluntary and arise from understanding the benefit of such actions."
• He Writes, We Link To It: "Posts My Guide to Stats: Offense." - Joe Posnanski, SI.com
• NL EAST:
• Marlins:"Ricky Nolasco will make Grapefruit League debut Sunday for Florida Marlins." - Joe Capozzi, Palm Beach Post
• Mets: The Mets reassigned 11 players to minor league camp on Friday - Mets Make First Spring Training Cuts, Oliver Perez Not Among Them". - Amazin' Avenue
• Braves: "In which I let my Braves fanboy flag fly." Craig Calcaterra, HardballTalk.com
• Phillies: "Dear Fuqua: Somewhat "With-it" Senior Won't Go Into Assisted Living" - Fuquamanuel, The Good Phight
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as it stands today...
who looks the best to you guys in the east?
atlanta? their pitching is still ridiculous, mccann, heyward…probabky freddie freeman bust things up this year.
florida? always dangerous if ramirez and josh johnson are healthy.
phillies? kind of amazing what a couple months can do. their rotation is still to die for, but at some point, you’re going to have to score runs. no werth’s a given, but the extended absence of utley and brown coupled w/ the continuing declines of rollins and howard could make this a season of reckoning as opposed to a coronation.
"the secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits"
Still Philly for now,
unless there is more bad news about Utley, he is the teams best player and the driving force of their offense.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Agreed about Philly
I think it’s always amazing and kind of fun to watch teams that are way, way too over-hyped fail. The Phillies have a great rotation that includes three guys who are all on the wrong side of 30, but their offense—that took a hit with the loos of Werth—was non-existent in the NLCS last year and no one seemed all that concerned. Now that they’ve lost Utley and Brown (who was/is a bit overrated methinks) it’s apparent that they’re going to have a tough time just making the playoffs let alone winning 100 games.
Right now, I’d go with Atlanta.
"I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can." - Walter Johnson
*Formerly known as Giant Torture
Nice to see you around here again.
Hope you’re doing well.
It’s still the Phillies for me. They are starting to head into that tax bracket where if things aren’t going well they will make the midseason moves to make themselves better. I don’t know the system well enough, but you have to feel that they will be aggressive in making up for offensive losses given the the limited window for their current rotation. Future is now for that organization. Personally, you almost hope that they hang around and barely make a wildcard and then FAIL. You want them to stay close enough to be willing to mortgage their future out of desperation.
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"Derek Norris walks." - Gameday. 'Nuff said. Souldrummer is all in for Derek Norris. Friend of Nationalsprospects.com
Thanks
Doing well, just have one of those jobs where I work in spurts. So I work real hard for a few months than not hardly at all for a few months.
Agreed on the Phillies, not sure how they’ll fail and I hope they get really close, just believe that when a team starts getting handed the trophy before a game has even been played, they almost always lose. Don’t know why that is, just know that it is. From a logical perspective though, I think they’re the best.
It's spring, and after working hard this winter, I'm in the best shape of my life.
Ross Detwiler will have a breakout year, believe it.
Nats, hands down.
Hey! It’s still spring!
Rob
-- Urging an immediate, permanent, worldwide moratorium on the use of the non-word "meh".
Avatar or comment. Avatar or comment. Avatar or comment. I’m sticking with the avatar. Storm clouds for you, sir.
Souldrummer twitters at @souldrummer25
"Derek Norris walks." - Gameday. 'Nuff said. Souldrummer is all in for Derek Norris. Friend of Nationalsprospects.com
by souldrummer on Mar 11, 2011 3:11 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Utley?
Its still that rotation of four and its still Philly………Remember two of those philly pitchers are going to have to take a dump before Philly falls out of 1st place……….Can Atlanta continue to play as well as they did last year? Although they do have an offense this year.
Don't want to nitpick Patrick,
but could you please make sure you set all the links to “open link in a new tab”
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Yes. Sorry, missed this earlier. There's a button you have to click to open in a new tab...
Hadn’t done the link posts in a while and forgot to click that.
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
Sheinin's piece is great
Funny that Harper’s dad wants him to stay in Washington. I think we have to expect he’ll leave for the Yankees but hope for the best and enjoy the 6 years he’s here.
I wonder if Sheinin will follow Bryce around the minors this year? I assume not, since he did that last year, but ya never know. I do take issue with the idea that Strasburg is less likable cause he’s more introverted, though. But, I’m probbaly not a typical fan, I suppose.
Oh, and it looks like I’ve been caught by the awful Long Toss feature on Nats Journal. Ack.
sports reporters are kind of dorks...
a few years back when the o’s had bedard, he had a rep for being aloof and standoffish, but after actually watching a few of his post game interviews, it became pretty clear to me that he was being penalized by sports writers for not kissing their asses and serving up crash davis-isms. i thought his interviews were really funny, and maybe it came from not being a native english speaker, but he had a really dry sense of humor that definitely did not come through in print.
"the secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits"
by j.q. higgins on Mar 11, 2011 2:21 PM EST up reply actions
I do kinda want to see him succeed for Brian's sake...
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 1:18 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
He's about done at this point
He was close last year. He had an early shot to make some noise against a smattering of big league competition, and now he’s back to Syracuse where he’s got to be hoping that a lot of the guys without options or that have Rule 5 status get booted. I like Wilkie personally as much as anybody, but at this point I’m hoping that he finds his way to an organization that doesn’t have a power/ground ball profile and doesn’t have as much depth so he’ll get a legitimate shot at a September call up sometime in his future.
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"Derek Norris walks." - Gameday. 'Nuff said. Souldrummer is all in for Derek Norris. Friend of Nationalsprospects.com
FP Santangelo
I’m not a huge FP fan, but this was fairly encouraging:
When is it OK to use “us” or “we” while broadcasting?
“It’s never appropriate. I’m not wearing a uniform, so it’s not we. It’s absolutely against everything I’ve been taught as a broadcaster to ever say ‘we’ because I’m sitting up here with makeup on and a coat and a tie. So it’s the Nationals and it will always be the Nationals on every broadcast I do.
“I was taught by some of the best announcers in baseball – Jon Miller, Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow and Dave Flemming, the broadcast crew for the Giants. One of the first things I learned was that you say ‘we’ when you’re wearing a uniform. I’m not wearing a uniform anymore so it will never be ‘we.’ "
"I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can." - Walter Johnson
*Formerly known as Giant Torture
Poor Rob "We" Dibble..
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
Wonder how long it will be before bored interneters turn on FP...
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
Too late
Just head over to www.mccoveychronicles.com, bored nerbs there turned on FP sometime around 2007, admittedly I was/am one of them. If you liked Dibble’s arrogance, than FP’s your guy, although he’s improved on that the last couple of years.
"I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can." - Walter Johnson
*Formerly known as Giant Torture
WE!!!!!!
I liked Dibble arrogance. And I like a color man to use we. Does Sonny and Sam use we?
Then you'll love FP!!!!
He may not use “we”, but he is arrogant and condescending as hell on his bad days, but he is smarter than Dibble and knows more about the game as a whole
It's spring, and after working hard this winter, I'm in the best shape of my life.
Ross Detwiler will have a breakout year, believe it.
That's almost different
can you really think of either of them and not think of them as part of the organization?
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Just to be clear wasn't trying to insult anyone with the "bored interneters" just talking about us folks the way Dibble often characterized us...
Just wanted to be clear on that point.
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
I occasionally have to catch myself
and [backspace]-[backspace]-[backspace] the “we” or “our” out of my sentence. It’s easy to claim ownership of or affiliation to one’s sports teams, especially when they are winners. So while I try my darndest not to do it myself, it doesn’t bother me too much when others do.
Rob
-- Urging an immediate, permanent, worldwide moratorium on the use of the non-word "meh".
very familiar with the [backspace]-[backspace]-[backspace] out of the "we"...
But i catch myself every time. Dibble was proud of it.
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 1:58 PM EST reply actions
Reply fail. Boo...
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
I'm happy as a non-semi-professional baseball writer
I can get away with all the "we"s I feel like dropping, though I do try to limit it to casual conversation. Always impressed by the amount of work the pros put into their craft though.
I do the "we" stuff sometimes, but I have started policing myself. Luckily, I'm not a
professional – so if I slip up once in awhile, it’s not a big deal. : )
Patiently waiting for "next year" since 1971.
by Princess Jazzy on Mar 11, 2011 2:15 PM EST up reply actions
I like "we" for fans
Ideally, especially given my status as a DC taxpayer who offered breaks to the billionaire Lerners through the stadiums situation, I view the Nats a community trust and it’s okay to say “we”. When I stop saying “we” is when teams move to Landover and lose their minds and all sense of their history.
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"Derek Norris walks." - Gameday. 'Nuff said. Souldrummer is all in for Derek Norris. Friend of Nationalsprospects.com
Oddly enough
I’m totally okay with fans using “we” as long as they don’t take it too far, however, I hate when broadcasters use we and turn in total homers. The most obvious example would be the guys who call the White Sox games. They’re widely regarded as the worst announcers in baseball and use we all the time, along with calling players by their first names etc. Most of what I’ve read usually rank either the Giants or Mets broadcasters as the best in baseball and I’ve never heard any of those guys use we.
It's spring, and after working hard this winter, I'm in the best shape of my life.
Ross Detwiler will have a breakout year, believe it.
You can put it on the booooooooooooooooooooard, YES!
I get so tired of that friggin’ call on MLB network.
Souldrummer twitters at @souldrummer25
"Derek Norris walks." - Gameday. 'Nuff said. Souldrummer is all in for Derek Norris. Friend of Nationalsprospects.com
I rarely hear out of town TV guys
just radio guys, and there isn’t really a debate on who the best in that area is.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
The thing is,
those guys (TV and radio personnel) travel with the team, eat with the team, stay in the same hotels, etc. etc. They are much much closer to the team than even us rabid fans and in a large part they are a part of the team as a whole. Charlie and Dave are a huge part of the Nationals, IMO. I also believe that Mike Rizzo is part of the Nationals’ team, not just a member of their organization.
Rob
-- Urging an immediate, permanent, worldwide moratorium on the use of the non-word "meh".
Charlie and Dave have to be considered top tier baseball broadcasters
I think they do their coverage exactly right. They know their team up and down and give the fans a great inside view without going over the top. I don’t ever remember not being entertained or informed while listening.
Wish we could sink the video and radio audio.
"I'm going to run. You can't stop me. I'm going to run even if I don't get a single vote!." Willie Stark, All The King's Men
by kingfishfarms on Mar 11, 2011 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
per Kilgore
Nine players not on the 40-man roster were spared from at least this round of cuts: Chad Gaudin, Alex Cora, Matt Stairs, Tim Wood, Shairon Martins, Ryan Mattheus, Derek Norris, Laynce Nix and Brian Bixler.
Wow, isn't that kinda cold? The guy has TJ surgery and gets cut by the team.
Best of luck to Cla. Hope his rehab goes well and he gets to pitch again in MLB some day.
Patiently waiting for "next year" since 1971.
by Princess Jazzy on Mar 11, 2011 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
I'm assuming that there is some sort of settlement so that his work-related injury is provided for
But sports can be a very cold world indeed.
Will probably only watch that first hour of the game tonight.
There is too much competition in the 7 o’clock hour that is just more compelling the ST baseball, as much as I love the Nats.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Conference Championships
This is the best time of the year for college hoops (through next Sunday, then I get bored).
Rob
-- Urging an immediate, permanent, worldwide moratorium on the use of the non-word "meh".
Well Maryland-Duke and the Caps game are both at 7, its hard to choose anything over either of those.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Caps?
Would have never occurred to me. But then again I just don’t understand the finer points of ice-fighting.
Rob
-- Urging an immediate, permanent, worldwide moratorium on the use of the non-word "meh".
It's a beautiful game when the less talented teams don't thug it up too much.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Colorado/Kansas
Connecticut/Syracuse
Mich St/Purdue
To name a few.
Rob
-- Urging an immediate, permanent, worldwide moratorium on the use of the non-word "meh".
Looks like the early start will help MASN kill in the 6:00 time slot...
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Mar 11, 2011 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
I hope baseball soon agrees to allow franchise tags.
It’s like with the NBA, you don’t want all the star players only going to a few teams. If they do go to those teams, the teams that they were on should be rewarded(in a trade after franchising the play) with a fair deal. Getting a late first round pick isn’t nearly good enough.
Skins rule
Not gonna happen in my opinion
That restricts the options for free agents, and I doubt the more powerful players’ union would be down with that.
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"Derek Norris walks." - Gameday. 'Nuff said. Souldrummer is all in for Derek Norris. Friend of Nationalsprospects.com
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