{"id":953,"date":"2006-03-18T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/03\/todays-nats-vs-mets-grapefruit-league-game.html"},"modified":"2006-03-18T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T20:26:00","slug":"todays-nats-vs-mets-grapefruit-league-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/03\/todays-nats-vs-mets-grapefruit-league-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Nats vs. Mets Grapefruit League game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched some of the Nationals game, a 10-2 rout over the Mets,this afternoon and thought I would share some observations:<\/p>\n<li type=\"square\"><b>Dutch!<\/b> looked good, fielding well and making a habit of getting on base.\n<li type=\"square\">Wiki Gonzales had a strong outing as well.\n<li type=\"square\">The camera angles were not great\n<li type=\"square\">It was hard to remember much about <b>Tom Paciorek<\/b> as an analyst from his days with the White Sox because I always disliked his partner Hawk Harrelson and tried to ignore them on the chance I was watching a ChiSox game. One thing that I did remember was he was quite proud of his Polish heritage; he once shared with viewers the proper pronunciation of <b>Andy Stankiewicz&#8217;s<\/b> last name. Today he provided translation of the name Gryboski (mushroom) as in P <b>Kevin Gryboski<\/b> and mentioned he was excited by the potential of back-to-back (<b>Gary Majewski<\/b>) Polish relief pitchers. He will be bringing his Polish dictionary to the booth from now on.\n<li type=\"square\"><b>Bob Carpenter<\/b> did nothing to distinguish himself as the play-by-play voice.\n<li type=\"square\">It makes me mad to see someone other than Brad Wilkerson wear #7. Stupid, stupid, incompetent <b>Jim Bowden<\/b>.\n<li type=\"square\">In addition to have ghastly spring training uniforms, the Mets have two tone next-generation batting helmets. They are a crime against baseball and possibly humanity. <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=lukas\/060308\"><b>UniWatch&#8217;s Paul Lukas of ESPN Page 2<\/b><\/a> agrees with me on this one. It makes the Mets easier to hate though because the new style helmets remind me of Michigan Wolverines.\n<li type=\"square\">The new ad campaign is pretty good. The slogan (if I recall correctly) &#8220;Make Yourself at Home&#8221; is so much better than &#8220;Let Yourself Go!&#8221; One thing though, one ad about ballpark food mentions you can get ice cream in a batting helmet. Where? I thought all you could get at RFK was the much maligned Dippin&#8217; Dots. Also, the commercial was clearly not shot at RFK.\n<li type=\"square\">I have said it before and I will say it again, the Nats vs. Baltimore series should be called the &#8220;Battle of Beltway<b>s<\/b>.&#8221; Baltimore has their own beltway too.\n<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20060318&#038;content_id=1354602&#038;vkey=spt2006gamer&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=was#boxscore\"><b>Boxscore<\/b><\/a> from <i>nationals.com<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched some of the Nationals game, a 10-2 rout over the Mets,this afternoon and thought I would share some observations: Dutch! looked good, fielding well and making a habit of getting on base. Wiki Gonzales had a strong outing as well. 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