Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Go North, Young, Men

The Nats pretty much finished the last piece of the puzzle when they purchased reliever Jesus Colome's contract (put him on the 40-man roster). Since they were likely to lose him if they didn't, he's heading north, sending Saul River (who has options left) to Columbus.

It also means tough luck for Kory "Don't Call Me Bernie" Castro. If Nook Logan's groin isn't tender and meaty, then there's no room for Casto.

So what're we left with?

Catchers (2): Brian Schneider, Jesus "No, not that one" Flores
First base (2): Dmitri "Meathook" Young, Robert "Unprintable Swear" Fick
Second base (2): Felipe "FLop" Lopez, Ron "Rafael" Belliard
Shortstop (2): Cristian "Weak Groundout" Guzman, Josh Wilson
Third base (1): Ryan Zimmerman
Left field (2): Ryan "Temple of Doomed" Church, Chris "Outback" Snelling
Center field (1): Nook "Endy 3.0" Logan
Right Field (1): Austin Kearns
Total: 13

Starting pitchers (5): John "Doe Eyes" Patterson, Shawn "Hoser" Hill, Matt "Boy" Chico, Jerome "5-0" Williams, Jason "Ingrid" Bergmann
Relievers (7): Chad Cordero, Jon "El Gigante" Rauch, Ryan Wagner, Ray "Whopper" King, Micah Bowie, Jesus "No, not that one" Colome, Levale "Nickname me, please" Speigner

Them's who we're going to war with. As long as Uncle Teddy doesn't yank funding, at least.

posted by Chris Needham at 3:30 PM

10 Comments:

  • Have they managed to finally sell out opening day yet?

    I heard radio commercials hawking tickets still available about every half an hour yesterday, but I don't think I've heard any today.

    Even with a crummy team, not having a full house for opening day would be pretty embarrassing.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/28/2007 4:02 PM  

  • Not even close. They were a few K short last year. They'll probably have around 30K on Monday.

    By Blogger Chris Needham, at 3/28/2007 4:05 PM  

  • I agree with the first post re: Opening Day. Even though this team is not going to be very good and it is RFK (and a Monday), the fact that the Nats can't scrounge up 45,000 people from the DC/NoVa area for this game has me shaking my head. Shame on you, DC area-so overjoyed when baseball came back two years ago but now met with a collective shrug of the shoulders. In the Post today, Mark Lerner said he'd love to see the game sold out. OK, Mark-what are you going to do about it?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/28/2007 4:22 PM  

  • I prefer "Crocodile" Chris as a nickname for Snelling, but then I also call Jesus Flores by the name "Flowery Jesus" so maybe I'm just odd.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/28/2007 4:35 PM  

  • I finally got my season tickets this year, and boy have they gone downhill. No pin, and not even a box. I liked it better when MLB owned the Nats.

    But I still can't believe the Nats can't sell out for opening day. I think that the good start 2 years ago actually set attendance back some. People were just happy to have a team and went to games expecting to lose. Once the Nats started winning, then losing became a disappointment. Now, we expect to lose, and the novelty has worn off, so I doubt the Nats break the 2 million mark this year. 15,000 season tickets makes 1.2 M for the season, so we'll see.

    By Blogger Natsfan74, at 3/28/2007 4:48 PM  

  • Three things:

    1 - you're going to piss off Mariner Nation by not using Doyle as Snelling's nickname. They'll complain for a while until Vidro grounds into a double play. (Shouldn't be a big issue.)

    2 - No nicknames for Cordero, Bowie, Schneider and Zimmerman? For shame.

    3 - Levale should probably be renamed Reggie Cleveland. He's a white guy?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/28/2007 5:11 PM  

  • If anyone is looking for me on Monday afternoon, I'll be the guy out in left field with the big banner:

    "LOGAN SUCKS
    WE WANT CASTO"

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/28/2007 6:03 PM  

  • isn't chad already "the chief"? it won't matter soon, that will be for red sox fans to debate in july. oh well, i'm still riding the wave(s) of elation of womack and jimenez being released! WHEW!

    on a completely unrelated note... does anybody need my season tix in 319 (row 2) for tuesday? or thursday? or saturday? 2 or 4 good seats available!

    By Blogger DCPowerGator, at 3/28/2007 7:06 PM  

  • With Flores behind the plate our young pitchers may start asking themselves WWJD.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/29/2007 11:43 AM  

  • Hey, at least there are two Jesuses on the team, so they'll be something to joke about. And a Church, too. Fodder for my own church, I guess. We can start calling them "The God Squad," as in "Please God, just get the third out so we can go home..."

    By Blogger Cathie, at 3/29/2007 1:34 PM  

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