Alright, Now I’m Pissed

Blah, blah, blah.  Adam Dunn, Ryan Zimmerman, I like you guys.  You’re the two best players on this team.

However, shut up.  Your quotes today about how “no one cares about the record” and “a lot of these guys won’t be on the team” and “wah wah ahhh wah spin spin”, have pissed me off.

Guess what fellas?  You aren’t playing the starting 9 for the WS Champs every day.  You are playing other teams mix of starters and scrubs, and they’re owning you.  Every day, up and down, complete ownage.  We’ve culled the chaff at this point, mostly.  You have few excuses left.  Tonight, other than Left and Center, and the unfortunately less likely to start Ian Desmond at short, you’ve got your opening day lineup.  What happened?  You got beat.  Your starters had three hits.

I’ll give you D Lowe as an excuse.  Mike Dunn may be a handy player too.  Everyone else? Nope.  Not buying what you’re selling.

Its time to win an occasional game, folks.  If you flipped a coin 12 times, its gotta come up heads once.  Right?

There were brighter spots tonight, but not too many.  Garrett Mock rebounded from a rough start to settle in.  I’ll take what he gave tonight.  Tyler Walker didn’t explode.  Martis had his best outing of the Spring, but it still won’t save him from Syracuse.  I continue to like Pudge in the field, and he will occasionally chip in with the bat.  But the bad side?  Let’s count it down.

As mentioned previously, the bats were ice cold for the starters.  Let’s pick up the pitcher, fellas.  Matt Capps has forgotten what a zero looks like, as yet another gopher ball jumps the wall on him.  Drew Storen is a human being.  Glad to know that.  2/3 of your starting outfield wouldn’t hit the ocean if they fell out of a boat right now.  This may be the result of handing out positions to players whom it would be charitable to call “accomplished”.

Let’s get it together.  Let’s not strangle the optimism out of the newly hopefully fanbase so soon, and show that the team can be something other than embarrassing.  Starting….tomorrow?