GDT: 6/30/'14 Atlanta Braves vs. NY Mets

Gameday calls Kimbrel's 85 mph offspeed pitch a knuckle curve. Is this right? I know having just one finger knuckled under is enough to make it a "knuckle" curve but I didn't know Kimbrel threw his curve that way.
 
tvsportscaster said:
Well, that's true, better than halfway through the season and Gattis is the first position player to go to the DL, and tonight is the first time all year the Nats have had their regular lineup in. Hey, I despise the Nats has much as anyone else, but I at least try to be fair and objective.
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+1.....
 
yeezus said:
Nats have surrendered their lead.
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Heyward said:
How is he wrong?

I hate the Nats too but the Nats have had tons of injuries to it's Starting 8 (DL), while Atl minus Gattis hasnt.

Not saying Atl hasnt had any injuries either but the Nats have hardly been injury-free. Both teams are good, and i'll leave it there.
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Maybe TV posting "fair and objective" just made me have to comment
 
Heyward said:
How is he wrong?

I hate the Nats too but the Nats have had tons of injuries to it's Starting 8 (DL), while Atl minus Gattis hasnt.

Not saying Atl hasnt had any injuries either but the Nats have hardly been injury-free. Both teams are good, and i'll leave it there.
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Way to completely miss the point. No one said the Nationals didn't have injuries.
 
Julio3000 said:
Yeah, but Laird's entire uni is a bulge.
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Heyward said:
How is he wrong?

I hate the Nats too but the Nats have had tons of injuries to it's Starting 8 (DL), while Atl minus Gattis hasnt.

Not saying Atl hasnt had any injuries either but the Nats have hardly been injury-free. Both teams are good, and i'll leave it there.
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Difference, read closely, the pundits say the reason why they haven't ran away from the division is because of injuries, just completely ignoring arguably our best two starters, Medlen and Beachy. It's like Atlanta doesn't exist to them. It's Nats and everyone else and if they aren't winning, then they come out with excuses which we cannot use.
 
AerchAngel said:
Difference, read closely, the pundits say the reason why they haven't ran away from the division is because of injuries, just completely ignoring arguably our best two starters, Medlen and Beachy. It's like Atlanta doesn't exist to them. It's Nats and everyone else and if they aren't winning, then they come out with excuses which we cannot use.
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Oh, yeah, i agree.

The media has their nuts up the Nats jock.

MLBN, especially.
 
Heyward said:
Oh, yeah, i agree.

The media has their nuts up the Nats jock.

MLBN, especially.
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THat is why posted it. It is nothing against you, just that we get no respect whatsoever. We win, it is because we lucky even though our two worst players is taking up a 4th of our salary, two of our main starting pitchers are gone and yet, if douche Herpes is out or Big Mouth Exposenoza is gone, it is world news.
 
Braves are now seven games over .500. Not great but a lot better than where we were a week ago. If you look at ESPN's standings, it shows six teams as having a better chance of making the playoffs than Atlanta. They show the Braves' chances at 42% while the Nationals' are at 69%. Needless to say I don't understand the metrics that favor Washington's chances so strongly.
 
USMA76 said:
Braves are now seven games over .500. Not great but a lot better than where we were a week ago. If you look at ESPN's standings, it shows six teams as having a better chance of making the playoffs than Atlanta. They show the Braves' chances at 42% while the Nationals' are at 69%. Needless to say I don't understand the metrics that favor Washington's chances so strongly.
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Maybe it has something to do with run differential.
 
AerchAngel said:
I'll take that bet. When the Gorn comes back, you can't release Laird. Eddie Perez is the bullpen catcher/manager so there is no other position for Laird.
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30 or so days to the trade deadline. Laird could be moved easily if Gattis is back before the trade deadline. Or if he comes back they in August they can just DL Laird with a headache or something until September 1st.
 
cajunrevenge said:
30 or so days to the trade deadline. Laird could be moved easily if Gattis is back before the trade deadline. Or if he comes back they in August they can just DL Laird with a headache or something until September 1st.
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No way Fredi lets the front office trade his twin brother.
 
jason27nc said:
No way Fredi lets the front office trade his twin brother.
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Rajun Cajun, Jason is right, no way our second coach is traded or release. I would love to have CB for the rest of the year, but it ain't happening unless The Gorn is out for the rest of the year and that would not be good for us, but if we were the Nationals, it would be front page news if that happened and an excuse used if we (Nats) don't win.
 
USMA76 said:
Braves are now seven games over .500. Not great but a lot better than where we were a week ago. If you look at ESPN's standings, it shows six teams as having a better chance of making the playoffs than Atlanta. They show the Braves' chances at 42% while the Nationals' are at 69%. Needless to say I don't understand the metrics that favor Washington's chances so strongly.
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gilesfan works for ESPN?
 
USMA76 said:
Braves are now seven games over .500. Not great but a lot better than where we were a week ago. If you look at ESPN's standings, it shows six teams as having a better chance of making the playoffs than Atlanta. They show the Braves' chances at 42% while the Nationals' are at 69%. Needless to say I don't understand the metrics that favor Washington's chances so strongly.
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Run differential. They're at +43, we're at +2.

If we sustain that the rest of the year chances are we probably won't make the playoffs.
 
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