Given that the Nats have had the best record in baseball over the past 5 months, I’m pretty shocked that people seem so unwilling to recognize that they may just be the better team after all. No no, it’s not that the Nats are better- it’s that it’s BASEBALL, and sometimes unfair outcomes happen! 

I have no idea why Barry is so dismissive of Sanchez. He’s a perfectly good fourth starter for any team, and the last time he took the mound he was unhittable. Everyone’s talking like the Nats have three good pitchers and nothing else. Hudson and Doolittle are fine (not lights out, but fine) and the four starters are…

I’m just impressed with how little was said in how many words he did use. “STERLING DOES EVERYTHING WELL. YES, EVERYTHING!” would have been just as informative as the various platitudes and blanket statements about Sterling’s skills that Billy listed. 

So we got an entire article refuting an argument that was made by...who exactly? Someone said this somewhere, so Ray wrote a whole refutation of it for some reason? And the analysis is...what exactly? That Curry won’t put up more numbers because him having the ball more is antithetical to Ray’s hastily crafted view of…

Eh, Adam Eaton should have made a much better play on that hit and actually caught the ball. And the Springer walk in the first allowed them to get two runs they shouldn’t have gotten. The 3-2 pitch to him was a clear strike for the first out, yet the Ump called a ball, and the Astros went on to score 2 runs with 2…

Not to mention that the Nats have the best record in baseball since May 24th. If you asked me which of two teams I thought had the best chance of winning a series and then told me that one of them had been literally the best in the league for five whole months I would feel pretty confident in that team’s chances. It…

He got caught out of position and knowingly had to commit a hand ball to prevent a clear scoring opportunity- it was utterly obvious as soon as he decided he had to catch the ball that he was going to be sent off. It’s not that bizarre if you know the rules, which the goalie clearly does. This also makes Billy claim…

Exactly. That was my first thought when I read the claim. He knowingly got a red card for literally breaking up the other team’s clear scoring opportunity. If he was trying to throw the game then he could have just screwed that up even worse and let the other team score. It seems like a pretty stupid claim based…

Lol, what an utterly odd response. I point out that it’s ridiculous that people are saying these things, and your response is essentially “they are doing those things, and these are the things that people do.” I mean, true. But what’s your point exactly? It’d be one thing if you were pointing out that generally that’s…

Huh? Because we don’t know enough about something we therefore HAVE to engage in judgmental nonsense based on wild conjecture? That’s the ONLY thing you think people can do? What about talking about the things we actually have some knowledge of? Tons of the comments on this article (but not on this particular thread…

I wish the league would let people watch the game using the Madden cam- just put a wide angle camera behind the action so I can watch the play unfold and see where everyone is at all times. This angle is cool and all, but while watching it there were parts where you could pretty much only see the runner and about 2…

“If he’s into that, it’s fine I guess. But it doesn’t sound like a healthy relationship to be in for either of them.”

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This seems like an awfully long description of your own relationship to then turn around and say “and everyone else’s relationship is the same way”. Yours sounds very nice- you (nor I) have literally no idea what’s going on in anyone else’s.

That was my thought as well. I wonder how many of those other exit velocity, contact angle pitches were hit when the temperature was in the high 40s. The whole premise of the blog post is dumb (we’re supposed to stop complaining abut the juiced balls because it might have meant we’d have to see a guy mouth “let’s…

People have been bitching about the juiced balls all year long, and now we are supposed to turn on our heads and start complaining about DE-juiced balls because it might have meant one less home run? This is moronic.

Gabe is an idiot. His takes are almost universally simplistic and wrong, and his blog posts are full of objectively inaccurate factual claims. It boggles my mind that someone is paying him to write about sports.

What are you talking about? Do you think Chicago, LA, and NY are the only big markets in the country or something?

It’s amazing that you think your absurd, “what have you done for me lately” level analysis is being criticized because it’s too nuanced for the internet. 

I’m not sure calling the Nats regular season “good” makes much sense. It was atrociously bad and horrific for about two months, and then the team turned into arguably the best team in the league for the remaining 112 games of the season. At no point were they a “good” team- they were either the worst in the league or…