Battle of the Beltways

[89Hen]

Hey Andy, who'd a guessed that the Battle of the Beltways this weekend would be between the AL leaders and the NL's second best?

[andy7171]

It's a weird feeling. Caring about the O's. It's been a while.

[93henfan]

Nats fans are becoming very annoying. It will be nice to see them flop later this season, as all Washington teams eventually do since 1991.

The O's I wish well. For a team that can't get anyone to go to the stadium, you sure do see a ton of O's hats and car stickers going around, even down here close to DC.

[Ivytalk]

Nats fans are becoming very annoying. It will be nice to see them flop later this season, as all Washington teams eventually do since 1991.

The O's I wish well. For a team that can't get anyone to go to the stadium, you sure do see a ton of O's hats and car stickers going around, even down here close to DC.

Washington fans are the worst frontrunners in the world. In all sports.

[89Hen]

Nats fans are becoming very annoying. It will be nice to see them flop later this season, as all Washington teams eventually do since 1991.

The O's I wish well. For a team that can't get anyone to go to the stadium, you sure do see a ton of O's hats and car stickers going around, even down here close to DC.

You're not close to DC.

History aside, there's no reason to think the Nats will flop. Great rotation (Wang still yet to come back), getting healthy bats back... they just can't afford to lose another catcher.

[89Hen]

Nats fans are becoming very annoying. It will be nice to see them flop later this season, as all Washington teams eventually do since 1991.

The O's I wish well. For a team that can't get anyone to go to the stadium, you sure do see a ton of O's hats and car stickers going around, even down here close to DC.

Washington fans are the worst frontrunners in the world. In all sports.

As much as I still despise the Redskins, don't you have to be in the front to be frontrunners? Redskins haven't been good since 1992. Wizards haven't been good since 1978. Nationals have never been good since arriving. Caps are the only team that you could consider a "frontrunner".

[Ivytalk]

Washington fans are the worst frontrunners in the world. In all sports.

As much as I still despise the Redskins, don't you have to be in the front to be frontrunners? Redskins haven't been good since 1992. Wizards haven't been good since 1978. Nationals have never been good since arriving. Caps are the only team that you could consider a "frontrunner".

I take your point. DC runs huge deficits in sports as well as in Congress. But whenever DC teams even get a whiff of being decent, their fans ratchet up the crap.

[andy7171]

Nats fans are becoming very annoying. It will be nice to see them flop later this season, as all Washington teams eventually do since 1991.

The O's I wish well. For a team that can't get anyone to go to the stadium, you sure do see a ton of O's hats and car stickers going around, even down here close to DC.

Crowds are building on the weekends. Everyone in town is starting to believe again. Wait until school gets out, if the team continues to play .500 ball or better, this summer will be a fun one at the Yard.

[Ivytalk]

Nats fans are becoming very annoying. It will be nice to see them flop later this season, as all Washington teams eventually do since 1991.

The O's I wish well. For a team that can't get anyone to go to the stadium, you sure do see a ton of O's hats and car stickers going around, even down here close to DC.

Crowds are building on the weekends. Everyone in town is starting to believe again. Wait until school gets out, if the team continues to play .500 ball or better, this summer will be a fun one at the Yard.

I saw the Sunday comeback win over Oakland (the Betemit walkoff HR) and, although there were about 30,000 in attendance, it sounded like 50,000 in the ninth.

[andy7171]

Washington fans are the worst frontrunners in the world. In all sports.

As much as I still despise the Redskins, don't you have to be in the front to be frontrunners? Redskins haven't been good since 1992. Wizards haven't been good since 1978. Nationals have never been good since arriving. Caps are the only team that you could consider a "frontrunner".

Now wait a second.
The Skins have had good teams since '92.
The '99 team with Brad Johnson and Stephen Davis was pretty good. If it were for the GD'ed Turk brothers, they would have gone to the NFC Championship game. The year after Norv was screwed by Little Danny insisting on cutting the kicker, and they lost 5 games by a FG or less. I wasn't a huge Norv fan, but that '00 team was 7-6 and in the thick of a wild card spot in the playoffs when he was fired.
Gibbs2 went to the playoffs twice.

And the Bullets were good under Eddie Jordan.

[89Hen]

As much as I still despise the Redskins, don't you have to be in the front to be frontrunners? Redskins haven't been good since 1992. Wizards haven't been good since 1978. Nationals have never been good since arriving. Caps are the only team that you could consider a "frontrunner".

Now wait a second.
The Skins have had good teams since '92.
The '99 team with Brad Johnson and Stephen Davis was pretty good. If it were for the GD'ed Turk brothers, they would have gone to the NFC Championship game. The year after Norv was screwed by Little Danny insisting on cutting the kicker, and they lost 5 games by a FG or less. I wasn't a huge Norv fan, but that '00 team was 7-6 and in the thick of a wild card spot in the playoffs when he was fired.
Gibbs2 went to the playoffs twice.

And the Bullets were good under Eddie Jordan.

The bar is awfully low there Andy.

[SuperHornet]

Has anyone in Baltimore at least thought about asking Cal to manage the Orioles? I don't know if he's interested, but if he could be talked into it, I could see the O's making the Series VERY quickly.

[andy7171]

Has anyone in Baltimore at least thought about asking Cal to manage the Orioles? I don't know if he's interested, but if he could be talked into it, I could see the O's making the Series VERY quickly.

He's not interested in managing. He wants to own the team.

He's actually running a nice little minor league team in his hometown of Aberdeen. Looks like a minature Camden Yards. And his little league training complexes are unbelievable.

[andy7171]

Now wait a second.
The Skins have had good teams since '92.
The '99 team with Brad Johnson and Stephen Davis was pretty good. If it were for the GD'ed Turk brothers, they would have gone to the NFC Championship game. The year after Norv was screwed by Little Danny insisting on cutting the kicker, and they lost 5 games by a FG or less. I wasn't a huge Norv fan, but that '00 team was 7-6 and in the thick of a wild card spot in the playoffs when he was fired.
Gibbs2 went to the playoffs twice.

And the Bullets were good under Eddie Jordan.

The bar is awfully low there Andy.

So to qualify as a good team, you have to win the super bowl? What does that make the Eagles?

All I was saying is the Skins have had good years mixed in the last two nightmarish decades.

[89Hen]

The bar is awfully low there Andy.

So to qualify as a good team, you have to win the super bowl? What does that make the Eagles?

All I was saying is the Skins have had good years mixed in the last two nightmarish decades.

Wow, you are delusional. 5 winning seasons in the last 20 (two 9-7's and an 8-7-1 included), one home playoff win in 20 years, one division title... You would be hard pressed to find an NFL team that has been worse than the Skins for the past 20 years.