Champagne and beer in the locker room? For a regular season Division Title? This is the problem in this town...no sports team should ever celebrate anything less than a World Series, an NBA Championship, a Stanley Cup or a Lombardi Trophy with beer and champagne.

Oh and let's ditch the goggles and ski masks you fucking pussies...the sting of the alcohol means you've accomplished something.

They took their sweet time. It's hard at this point to see how they will win a game, much less a series, in the post-season. They have been flat-out dreadful for weeks now. It's not something you can just turn around because the calendar says to.

Winning the NL east is a nice accomplishment. Can't you just enjoy the moment before you start whining about them not winning the world series? Guess not. Win it all or you suck. That's the real problem with Washington sports. We can't just enjoy the game at hand.

It's playoff "berth" dummy.

If years past are any indication, it may be the only time they get to celebrate anything this year.

I hope they enjoyed the celebration, because that is the only one they will have this year.

Total crash and burn in the first round.

Arlington native Wrote:
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> Winning the NL east is a nice accomplishment.
> Can't you just enjoy the moment before you start
> whining about them not winning the world series?
> Guess not. Win it all or you suck. That's the real
> problem with Washington sports. We can't just
> enjoy the game at hand.

I'm sorry about your public school education...here in the real world, where people like the Steelers, the Yankees, the Celtics and the Canadiens live you would understand that the championship is the only thing that matters. Fortunately for the Nats, they now have a manager who understands that.

Something else to consider in your "celebrate the little things and or effort world"...

Of cities with teams in all 4 pro leagues, DC has gone the longest without a title...24 years so, we're all a little sick and tired of your bullshit excuses.

should be an easier path to home field in the first round now that they won't be facing Fernandez next weekend.

Huh??? Wrote:
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> Champagne and beer in the locker room? For a
> regular season Division Title? This is the problem
> in this town...

LOL. I guess the Nats are taking their cue from the idiots in their fan base who have decided that the regular season is what matters. You can hardly blame them after how the last few seasons have gone. That's DC-area sports for you!

every little bit Wrote:
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> should be an easier path to home field in the
> first round now that they won't be facing
> Fernandez next weekend.

Too soon, bruh...too soon.

Fantom.Shitter Wrote:
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> every little bit Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > should be an easier path to home field in the
> > first round now that they won't be facing
> > Fernandez next weekend.
>
> Too soon, bruh...too soon.


Why? Got himself kilt. Helps the home team.

Kilton Wrote:
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> LOL. I guess the Nats are taking their cue from
> the idiots in their fan base who have decided that
> the regular season is what matters. You can hardly
> blame them after how the last few seasons have
> gone. That's DC-area sports for you!

LOL!!! The resident total sports assfuck has spoken! The regular season is all you can plan for. The playoffs have been morphed into a total corporate-driven Rollerball crapshoot. Particularly in baseball, where the differences between good and bad teams are so small. There is only one reason why dipshits don't understand that -- they are just too stupid.

The Nats have meanwhile won three division titles in five years. Management has scouted well, drafted well, signed well, and traded well, thus keeping a steady flow of solid players coming in even as others have gone out the door. There is no telling at all what will happen in October. But next April, the Nats will once again put a strong and competitive team on the field. Stupid shits will just have to live with that.

When they blow it in the play offs all they will be left with is the after birth.

That would be more than anything you currently have in your dismal life.

NPJ6K Wrote:
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> The regular season is all you the Nats can plan for.

Fixed that for you! It's amazing how other teams consistently do well in the playoffs. I know -- I bet they're just lucky!!!!

The only thing duller than baseball is its fans. :-)

Kilton Wrote:
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> Fixed that for you! It's amazing how other teams
> consistently do well in the playoffs. I know -- I
> bet they're just lucky!!!!

Forget it, fuckwad. You are well and well more than deservedly known as about the dumbest and worst-informed piece-of-shit dumbfuck around here when it comes to sports -- a total fucktarded douchebag with no redeeming social value at all. The playoffs are theater, not sport. You are simply too fucking stupid to understand the difference. Go fuck yourself and then return to the Closet of Eternal Shame from which you so foolishly emerged to post this latest example of your worthless ignorant blather.

> The only thing duller than baseball is its fans.

LOL! Stupid fuck doesn't understand any of the other sports either. Thinks that "curses" govern everything. What an absolute asshole!

PmWWe Wrote:
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> Forget it, fuckwad.

Translation:

"You're right as usual, Kilton. While I try each and every year to claim that only the regular season matters, it's just a cover so that I'm not completely embarrassed if (when?) they end up choking in the playoffs.

The real truth is that I follow every second of every game in the playoffs, hoping beyond hope that they can pull it off. I sit in my house clapping after every hit and pumping my fist after every opponent strikeout. I watch every pre-game show and obsess over every stat after every game. And I only wear my lucky Natitude shirt on game day!

You see, Kilton -- this is the life of a hard-core baseball fan. You wouldn't understand. I spend hundreds and hundreds of hours of my life each year thinking about baseball, reading about baseball, talking about baseball. Baseball baby! Life doesn't get any better than this! Frankly I've never understood why there aren't 365 games every year. Wouldn't that be awesome???

Anywho, go Nats all the way baby! Oh, I mean....Never mind the playoffs suck ass the Nats are Regular Season Champions yeah suck on that buster!!

Well champ, you said it far better than I ever could have. Fully concur. :-)

Irish diplomacy is the art of telling a man to go and fuck themselves...and making them think it was their own idea.

Ladies and gentlemen...I give you...Kilton. The only regular poster here on FU that makes his enemies flame themselves so he doesn't have to do it for them.

NPJ6K Wrote:
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> Kilton Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > LOL. I guess the Nats are taking their cue from
> > the idiots in their fan base who have decided
> that
> > the regular season is what matters. You can
> hardly
> > blame them after how the last few seasons have
> > gone. That's DC-area sports for you!
>
> LOL!!! The resident total sports assfuck has
> spoken! The regular season is all you can plan
> for. The playoffs have been morphed into a total
> corporate-driven Rollerball crapshoot.
> Particularly in baseball, where the differences
> between good and bad teams are so small. There is
> only one reason why dipshits don't understand that
> -- they are just too stupid.
>
> The Nats have meanwhile won three division titles
> in five years. Management has scouted well,
> drafted well, signed well, and traded well, thus
> keeping a steady flow of solid players coming in
> even as others have gone out the door. There is
> no telling at all what will happen in October.
> But next April, the Nats will once again put a
> strong and competitive team on the field. Stupid
> shits will just have to live with that.


^ What losers say.

Loser Talk Wrote:
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> NPJ6K Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Kilton Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > LOL. I guess the Nats are taking their cue
> from
> > > the idiots in their fan base who have decided
> > that
> > > the regular season is what matters. You can
> > hardly
> > > blame them after how the last few seasons
> have
> > > gone. That's DC-area sports for you!
> >
> > LOL!!! The resident total sports assfuck has
> > spoken! The regular season is all you can plan
> > for. The playoffs have been morphed into a
> total
> > corporate-driven Rollerball crapshoot.
> > Particularly in baseball, where the differences
> > between good and bad teams are so small. There
> is
> > only one reason why dipshits don't understand
> that
> > -- they are just too stupid.
> >
> > The Nats have meanwhile won three division
> titles
> > in five years. Management has scouted well,
> > drafted well, signed well, and traded well,
> thus
> > keeping a steady flow of solid players coming
> in
> > even as others have gone out the door. There
> is
> > no telling at all what will happen in October.
> > But next April, the Nats will once again put a
> > strong and competitive team on the field.
> Stupid
> > shits will just have to live with that.
>
>
> ^ What losers say.


The list of excuses is a mile long for Nats fans.

Kilton Wrote:
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> Well champ, you said it far better than I ever
> could have. Fully concur. :-)

You're a fraud, Kiltie. A little girl of a fraud.

dbacks scoring runs like they just lost their ace pitcher

dEkLF Wrote:
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> dbacks scoring runs like they just lost their ace
> pitcher


the nats are so going to get smoked in the play offs - losers

3TPtw Wrote:
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> You're a fraud, Kiltie. A little girl of a fraud.

Anyone else as assfuck stupid as Kilton when it came to sports would simply stop trying to comment on the topic. Being a mindless curse-minded derp of course, he just makes a continuing Fourth of July fireworks level display of himself as an asshole via one burst after another of his patent and abject stupidity. This is how one becomes a pathetic laughing stock among actual sports people.

jDN63 Wrote:
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> Anyone else as assfuck stupid as Kilton when it
> came to sports would simply stop trying to comment
> on the topic. Being a mindless curse-minded derp
> of course, he just makes a continuing Fourth of
> July fireworks level display of himself as an
> asshole via one burst after another of his patent
> and abject stupidity. This is how one becomes a
> pathetic laughing stock among actual sports
> people.

Careful. He knows how to trace your IP address. You're treading on thin ice here.

The question now is who will they play?

jDN63 Wrote:
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> among actual sports people.

Translation: "...Among losers who spend hundreds of hours per year watching baseball, and then talking to their completely-uninterested co-workers about it the next day, desperately trying to be seen as the most knowledgeable fan based on the delusion that it will impress people."

Man, you're on a tear lately with accurate posts! Keep up the good work. :-)

LOL

Some classic articles from the local media as always!

Pre-Game: (Hope & Optimism!!!)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nationals-journal/wp/2016/10/12/the-nationals-season-and-maybe-their-reputation-comes-down-to-game-5/

"In four games this postseason, the Washington Nationals have shown more toughness, more resilience and more poise than either the 2012 or 2014 versions of themselves. This is a team worthy of a championship series."

"It’s true that the 2016 NLDS feels different, has been different... This year, the Nationals have outscored the Dodgers, 21-15, with the top of their order applying constant pressure... Their performance has allowed them to head into the decisive game in an advantageous position."

"So now the Nationals fly back to Washington, not to prepare for the Cubs but to play a game that will do nothing less than help define an era."

Post-Game: (How could this have happened????)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/once-again-nationals-head-out-into-an-offseason-of-doubt/2016/10/14/473b1d66-9144-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

"On Thursday night the Nats had all outward appearances in their favor — a howling sellout home crowd behind them, their 20-win ace Max Scherzer on the mound and the Dodgers reduced to a “staff game” with all pitching hands on deck. Yet, in the end, those haunting doubts came to the fore again. The Curse of Even Numbered Years, it appears, is now firmly established."

"This game will leave burning images of disappointment in a season when, just three days ago, the Nats had two chances for a win to reach the NL Championship Series and failed both times."

"One hit at the right time would have produced a Washington win. But the Nationals again came up one run short."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/for-washington-nationals-and-their-fans-a-long-road-to-a-familiar-pain/2016/10/14/e720282a-919f-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html

"This city is in a decades-long relationship with sports postseason failure, one the Nationals inherited but did not create. Try as they might, neither the fans nor the Nationals could divorce themselves from that history Thursday night."

"Despite all the optimism Baker displayed before and during this game, the result was painful. Again. Pain, always. That’s mostly what the Nationals have felt during three playoff losses in the past five seasons."

"By the time it was over, the notion of a D.C. sports curse seemed plausible once more."

Good lord, this team knows how to Fail like its noone's business