http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/21/the-nats-should-have-known-that-carlos-alvarez-wasnt-who-he-said-he-was/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 26 May 2013 06:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/21/the-nats-should-have-known-that-carlos-alvarez-wasnt-who-he-said-he-was/comment-page-1/#comment-72492 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:23:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=9558#comment-72492 Wow, hope you’re taking your blood pressure medicine. Seriously.
Or are you still upset that Craig called you out on that whole “I can’t believe they’re giving away free shit to so-called ‘Nats fans’ who don’t even wear Nationals’ flair” thing?

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/21/the-nats-should-have-known-that-carlos-alvarez-wasnt-who-he-said-he-was/comment-page-1/#comment-72491 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:29:14 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=9558#comment-72491 Ok, so Baez knew and told Rijo. There’s no evidence that Rijo told Bowden (at least, no evidence yet).
Baez, Rijo and Bowden were all summarily terminated within 3-4 days of this news breaking.
So, what else is there to “rebuild in the organization?” I think time and again we’ve discussed that Bowden was a horrible GM and this incident was further proof of that. But your implication that somehow there are still bad apples in the organization is insulting (to say the least) to Rizzo and what his team are trying to do.
Craig: How come you never write articles bemoaning the decade-long damage done to our franchise by MLB by allowing Loria to strip the club bare of talent evaluators when he sold the Expos and was handed the Marlins (and its $50m annual profits) by the crook commissioner Bud Selig? Or discussing how we were in first place at the all star break in 2005 but made no moves and slumped to a last place finish? Or how we didn’t call anyone up at the roster expansion date for a couple years because MLB wanted to save the roster salary? Or the fact that an incompetent GM was put in place by MLB in the first place, resulting essentially in WASTED drafts in 2006 and 2007 as Bowden picked head cases and toolsy guys. Or his constant acquiring of troublemakers at the MLB level (Felipe Lopez, Dukes, Dmitry Young, Milledge, etc)?
No, instead you somehow group the non-Lerner, non-Kasten, non Washington Fan base issues of the previous regimes on the current team unfairly. I’d like to see you actually write a piece mentioning the Washington franchise that is actually unbiased in this factor, instead of lazily cherry picking whatever bad news you can find mentioning our team and writing your little pot shots on this blog.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/21/the-nats-should-have-known-that-carlos-alvarez-wasnt-who-he-said-he-was/comment-page-1/#comment-72490 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:14:03 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=9558#comment-72490 He’s not Esmailyn now.

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