Nat's and O's - 2010 MLB Season

[dmek25]

i love how its OK for Strasburg to hold the Nationals hostage last season for a ridiculous amount of money. but if someone else tries it......

[InsaneBoost]

Originally Posted by dmek25

i love how its OK for Strasburg to hold the Nationals hostage last season for a ridiculous amount of money. but if someone else tries it......

Actually, Strasburg's agent wanted him to get much more and told him not to sign, but Strasburg said he wanted to play and signed the contract. So if anything, he was a good sport. He's well worth the money too, he's averaging just about 7K's a game.

[Monkeydad]

From Friday:

[tryfuhl]

So we know Harper is a diva/douche.. now to find out whether to love or hate him

[mooby]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

So we know Harper is a diva/douche.. now to find out whether to love or hate him

It'll be easy to love him as long as he doesn't embarress the franchise. I'm hoping we have the right guys in place to kind of keep him in line, if he pans out things will only get better for us.

[GMScud]

Well, love him or hate him, he's in the fold for $9.9M.

Washington Nationals sign top pick Bryce Harper before midnight deadline - ESPN

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

So we know Harper is a diva/douche.. now to find out whether to love or hate him

I am going to reserve judgment on the kid because he's 17 and, based on what teammates say, he is a good guy. The stories everyone knows about are all told about how he reacted to bad situations that he was put into. Now he'll be in the pros where he won't have opposing teams taking pot-shots at him in warm-ups and umpires ready to boot him for responding to relentless heckling. Maybe he is a dickhead...or maybe he is just a kid. If he spends enough time in the minors he'll have a little of his ego chipped away.

[InsaneBoost]

We'll see what happens as far as performance, obviously we wont be seeing him anytime soon, but I'm glad to see we got it done.

[FRPLG]

It's hard not to be excited about the coming years for this team. They are accumulating a boatload of good young talent and if they can keep it on track they could be a really good team in 3 years. So many plus pieces in the pipeline. Gotta hand it to Rizzo, Kasten and Lerner. They go after talent and pay for it. Hopefully it works out.

[tryfuhl]

Alright, I like the douche now.

[Monkeydad]

I just want to know if he'll still paint his face black in the Majors.

[over the mountain]

sweet pics buster. thanks for posting.

i heard a former mlb player say that when he gets to the majors he wont wear the black masquera. that his teammates will tell him it is bush league. i personally dont see the big deal with a lil extra black but baseball has its own rules.

[tryfuhl]

the extra eye black is stupid.. he already stands out, he doesn't need to paint his face like that college lineman did

it's just saying hey i'm good and can do what I want

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

the extra eye black is stupid.. he already stands out, he doesn't need to paint his face like that college lineman did

it's just saying hey i'm good and can do what I want

I think Stan Kasten already came out and said they wouldn't let him go all Ultimate Warrior with the eye black.

But I guess if after a few years in the bigs he turns out to be the next Babe Ruth they'll let him do whatever he wants.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

the extra eye black is stupid.. he already stands out, he doesn't need to paint his face like that college lineman did

it's just saying hey i'm good and can do what I want

Anybody see Mike Sellers at the coin toss against the Ravens Saturday night? He went all BH with his eye black, it looked stupid.