I don’t know what annoys me more about you; your idiotic and meaningless screen name (I mean, really; WTF is a ‘dfensfelix’? Sounds like a french tampon) or your idiotic and meaningless out-of-no-where attacks on people who haven’t done you anything.

If you don’t like how other posters write, you can go read something else. No one elected you the blog-police so try to keep that in mind since you’re so damn impressed with yourself.

As for the pitcher batting 8th, obviously that is a LaRussaism. But Riggleman did that (and batted Werth leadoff) out of desparation, since the offfense struggled to score more than 2 runs in a game. He had not batted the pitcher 8th before. When the team started winning (including a sweep of the Cards) with the revised lineup, he kept using it. If and when the Nats go into another run-scoring funk, he will probably stop batting the pitcher 8th.

Perhaps the point is, Riggleman may in some ways manage like LaRussa, but these days, that’s not uncommon. Perhaps LaRussa as a manager is just stale, and needs to come up with new strategems so he can keep his “genius” image. At least, in his own mind.

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re: LaRussa: I’ve heard a handful of visitors booed by their own fans at Nats games, notably A-Rod and Pat Burrell. LaRussa was the only maager. (There was also Joe West, but he has his own category.)

re: Bucs-O’s:The Pirates were my favorite team at the time. The Orioles, though not my favorite AL team, were quite worthy of respect. So it was neat that they wore their 1971 uniforms — and the Pirates did not wear their 1979 uniforms.

[This is a brussels sprout-free zone.]

Six in a row, tonight has Gio against RA Dickey which could be a walk-fest of intergalactic proportions, or could be 1-0, depending on how those two feel.

Congrats to OG for summoning the spirits to finally break the Feesh skid. Even if it meant having to endure a Terrence Malick movie to do it, the sacrifice was nobly done. Personally, I lasted about 40 minutes of the “New World” before leaving, vowing never to watch another Malick or Colin Farrell movie, a promise that has been easy to keep thus far.