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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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On the eight-year anniversary of Stephen Strasburg‘s debut, he exited after 2-innings with some discomfort in his shoulder which manager Dave Martinez has called inflammation and Strasburg will get an MRI tomorrow. Nationals Park was rocking with a sold-out crowd of over 41,000, and the Nationals fell behind early behind Strasburg 3-0. Wander Suero gave up 3 more runs. The Nationals clawed back and got the game to a 6-5 deficit, but then Brandon Kintzler struggled followed by Matt Grace who let 2 of Kintzler’s runners to score pushing the score to 9-to-5 and out of reach. Continue reading →
It was 8-years ago today that Stephen Strasburg electrified the baseball world with an incredible debut at Nationals Park. Stras struck out 14 batters in one for the ages. Tonight he takes the mound in hopes of bettering what he produced on that night.
The Giants are the team the Nationals face tonight in Nationals Park. They have Madison Bumgarner back from the DL, but they lost their best offensive weapon, Brandon Belt, to the DL due to an appendectomy. They only have 3 regulars on the DL which include Cueto and Samadrdzija. Lucky for the Giants that Brandon Crawford is the hottest hitter in baseball, he is batting .434 for the last month.
Rookie Andrew Suarez pitches tonight for the Giants, and if his name sounds familiar, it should be since the Washington Nationals drafted him in the 2nd round of the 2014 Draft from the University of Miami. Suarez did not sign with the Nats reportedly because he wanted above slot money and did not sign. Funny as it worked out he did not move up in the 2015 Draft to the 1st round and had to settle for full-slot money with the Giant at $1,010,100 per this tweet from MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo. Suarez went from the 57th overall pick in 2014 by the Nationals to the 61st pick overall in 2015 with the Giants. Continue reading →
Catcher Alejandro Flores chats with Seth Romero (left) before his first Hagerstown Suns appearance. (TalkNats photo)
The collegiate and Spring Training indiscretions by Seth Romero have been discussed before to overkill, and those issues have overshadowed his pitching prowess that he put on display last night in Hagerstown, Maryland’s Municipal Stadium in front of 1,736 fans which was attended by several scouts and a group of Nationals front office personnel including Nationals V.P. Bob Boone and the well-traveled Washington Nationals Director of Player Development Mark Scialabba. Lets suffice it to say, Seth Romero’s 2018 debut was electric. He smashed through the Phillies Low-A affiliate Lakewood Blueclaws like a 6’3″ 240 big man with an over-sized crab mallet. He had a preset pitch count of 60 pitches so his evening was short but full of strikeouts. Of the 8-batters that Romero recorded for outs — 6 were via strikeouts. That’s a 20.30 K/9 rate! Continue reading →
The Washington Nationals followed a pitching-heavy draft last year by once again drafting mostly pitchers in the 2018 Major League Baseball draft this week.
The group of 23 pitchers drafted by the Nats is headlined by right-hander Mason Denaburg (first-round pick, #27 overall selection) and left-hander Tim Cate (second-round pick, #65 overall selection). Denaburg is a prep pitcher who turned heads as a starter for Merritt Island High School in Florida, the alma mater of former Nats pitcher Taylor Jordan, while Cate comes from a less traditional region for top-flight baseball talent as the ace of the University of Connecticut Huskies.
Here’s a pick-by-pick analysis of the first 10 rounds of the Nats’ draft class, plus a few assorted notes. Continue reading →
The NL East has really changed in appearance since Friday the 13th of April when the New York Mets were 11-and-1 and in first place by 3½ games. Their fans were discussing shock and awe and printing 2018 NLDS tickets back then. It’s the reason we play the games. Since then the Braves and Phillies have both shown that they are legitimate contenders and expect both of those teams to make some trade(s) to bolster some of their weaknesses. The Washington Nationals are in 1st Place technically by a .002 winning percentage because the Braves have completed two additional games. Continue reading →
One of the staples of Supervisory Training is an exercise where the room is broken into small groups which are tasked to independently finish the sentence, “A Leader is…” It’s such stock-in-trade that some of us have suffered through it on multiple occasions during various seminars. The small teams are supposed to go through all manner of brainstorming maneuvers to arrive at some new insight into the dimensions of leadership. What usually happens is that one or two people diligently work on it while the senior people in the team check their e-mail. If you ever find yourself stuck in this dreary dance you can cut right to the chase.
Joel Barker, the Futurist nailed it: “A Leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”
Happy birthday to Anthony Rendon who went 4-for-5 in support of Tanner Roark who had an easy game in an 11-to-2 Washington Nationals win and sweep of this two-game series with the Tampa Bay Rays. Continue reading →
The top of the order needs to get the offense going!
With the Tampa Bay Rays dealing with injuries to two of their starters (Archer and Banda), they appear to have named lefty Jonny Venters their starter — but this will be more of a pieced together bullpen start. He has never started a game before and is a 3-time Tommy John survivor with a total of four ulnar-collateral-ligament injuries to what he self-describes as 3 1/2 TJ surgeries. How long Venters stays in this game is a guess that even Tampa’s manager Kevin Cash might not even know. The furthest Venters has gone in a game is 1 2/3 innings back on May 18th. He last pitched 1/3 of an inning in a 3-pitch LOOGY appearance 3-days ago. Continue reading →
The Nationals almost had a 4-to-0 shutout which was spoiled by two weak hits and a line drive, and most importantly the Nationals won the game behind a strong 8 inning performance by Max Scherzer and a Matt Adams home run, 2 runs scored by rookie Juan Soto and Wilmer Difo‘s triple. The Nationals only managed 4-hits in this game while the top of the order were a combined 0-fer, and all of the offense came from the bottom of the Nats order just like the Nationals last win on Saturday. Continue reading →
When Max Scherzer pitches in Nationals Park this season, he has a 1.77 ERA and a WHIP of 0.673 with a 14.4 K/9 rate. Scherzer hopes to continue that dominance and today must face the catcher who was his battery-mate for his 2 no-hitters and his historic 20-strikeout game. Yes, Wilson Ramos is back as a visiting player, and yes, he is holding a press conference shortly for the D.C. media You can bet the Nationals crowd will be fired up to see one of their all-time favorites — but once the game starts, he’s just an opponent. Continue reading →
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.