General Sports Water Cooler

That won't work. We need him to win HFA in the WS for the Nats.

colts, you don't think the club will go after a cj wilson type?

and if they are in a race, i truly think they will just skip a couple turns for strasburg once or twice a month so he could pitch during the stretch run.

Span is interesting because we can probably buy low now because of his health. Then again, he may never be right again and we will have wasted our time.

I'd be ok with that depending on what we give up. They can fuck themselves if they want Storen now.

No.

Eh, not my favorite, but as a #3 lefty, could be worse.

MILONES!!!

I'd like Span but we'd really have to find out if he's healthy or not. We can't continue with another year of Ankiel/Bernadina/Nix/Gomes/RT as an everday OF platoon. I know help is on the way down the road (with Harper may actually helping right away, but the likes of Hood/Goodwin/etc in a couple years), but the time is now to solve the problem even if it's a short-term fixture.

Span or Upton. Unless there is some other CF out there that hasn't been brought up yet.

As far as Detwiler as I mentioned on the other forum, he was a different pitcher down the stretch. Good enough to crack the rotation next year? I'm glad I'm not getting paid to make these decisions. But if Wilson/Buerhle or even Sabathia is available, I'd say go after them.

The more I think about it, the more brilliant Selig is for locking us in that shitty TV deal.

SportsBusiness Journal’s annual year-end ratings wrap is out, and it shows that the Nats still have the smallest average regional sports network audience in MLB. The publication reports that Nats games on MASN and MASN2 averaged a 1.22 mark in the Washington market this season, down 4.7 percent from 2010.

And while the team’s average TV rating was better than those of the Angels and Dodgers, market size calculations mean that the Nats’ average television audience of 29,000 was the worst in the big leagues.

Though, in fairness, they were really close to the A’s (31,000), Orioles (31,000), Marlins (32,000), Royals (33,000) and Astros (33,000).

And not really close to the Yankees (310,000) or Phillies (276,000).

This is the first year the Nats have gone backward in TV ratings since I’ve been paying attention. In 2010, the Nats averaged a 1.4 and 33,000 households. In 2009, it was a 0.60 rating and 14,000 households. In 2008, it was even worse.

CF Upton
SS Desmond
3B Zimmerman
1B Morse
RF Werth
LF Cuddyer
2B Espinosa
C Ramos

Bench: LaRoche, Ankiel, catcher, Lombardozzi, RT

when harper is ready, cuddyer can move all over the field.

FIFY theaman

so, reyes?

Jayson Werth Callout!