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We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.
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The №1 priority for the Washington Nationals is to acquire a veteran star who can be a leader on a long-term deal. The reason you need a long-term deal is to have that continuity. Signing a veteran player to a 1-year deal will not have the same impact as a 5-year deal. Everyone has to know this player is here for years to come. Before the 2011 season, the Nationals did just that when they signed Jayson Werth to a 7-year deal for over $120 million. At that time, $120 million was a lot of money in baseball terms.
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The Washington Nationals won another 1-run game; a strength of this team in the 2025 season. Their 24-18 record shows what they can do in close games. It is the 44 blow-out losses against only 16 blow-out wins as the reason this team has a losing record. That happens when you have a pitching staff that easily clinched the second worst ERA in all of baseball.
The Washington Nationals played great and poor in the same game last night. A great effort wiped out by four errors and five unearned runs given up that made it a frustrating loss that wasted a three home run performance by Luis Garcia Jr. That was a feat that has only been done seven times before in Nats’ history. Add to that, Daylen Lile hit a game-tying 3-run homer to bring the Nats back from a 8-1 deficit. Unfortunately, Jose A. Ferrer blew his first 9th inning as the closer, and the Nats lost 10-9.
Defense matters and in this game, the defense cost the Nats a win that would have been the best comeback of the season. In one game, you saw the best and worst of the Nats. Garcia showed everyone why he should be a part of the future — albeit, maybe not at second base where he has struggled on defense.
The Washington Nationals returned to D.C. early on Wednesday, and had a rest day on Thursday. Today, they begin their final weekend before they depart to their offseason homes. If you could bottle up Wednesday’s game — we wouldn’t want the season to end. What a win for the Nats.
Maybe the most significant part from that Atlanta series was the resurgence of James Wood with three homers in the two games he played in that series and no strikeouts. On Tuesday, he started his night with a double then in his next at-bat he sprinted to first base on a groundout and was out by one stride, and in his final at-bat, Wood hit a homer off of a lefty reliever. On Wednesday, he crushed two homers. That was the All-Star we fell in love with in the first half of the season.
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Hey guys, my apologies for the little absence from the site. College life is not for the weak, I’ll put it that way. Anyways, the Washington Nationals got a win today in their final road and divisional game of the season, in a 4-3 victory over the Braves in Atlanta. Andrew Alvarez continued his impressive September with a 4⅓-inning scoreless outing, which was supplemented by some power from the Nats’ order.
The Nats got on the board first in the top of the first inning as Daylen Lile just keeps on hitting, this time it was an RBI single to put the Nationals ahead 1-0. Bryce Elder and Andrew Alvarez went back and forth trading zeroes until the fourth, when Josh Bell smacked a solo home run to double the lead and make it a 2-0 ballgame.
At a Hot Stove event, former GM, Mike Rizzo, referred to a long-standing employee as part of the furniture. The same could have been said for Rizzo who was the first hire by the Lerner family when they purchased the Washington Nationals in 2006. Rizzo came to the team as an Assistant General Manager (AGM) under GM Jim Bowden. When Bowden departed a few years later, Rizzo was elevated to run the GM position until he was fired on July 6.
The team promoted long-time assistant GM, Mike DeBartolo, as the interim-GM simultaneous to the Rizzo firing, and for the past month the ownership group has been searching for a permanent GM with DeBartolo among the many candidates. The natural hunting grounds for a GM was to look at top AGMs with other teams. One of the obstacles, as a source told us, you must seek permission from a team to interview a current employee, and that has made this a situation where you might not get to interview everyone you hoped to get on the list. However, several of the Nats’ top targets were interviewed — and it led to a decision as first reported by Jeff Passan of ESPN that the Nationals have hired Boston Red Sox assistant general manager, Paul Toboni, as their head of baseball operations.
We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.