NATS RISE TO GLORY game twenty

Nats opened a road series at Atlanta, and my dead father was always a Braves fan, plus my grandma watched them in her trailer back when cable TV became a thing in the American Experience of the 1980s and TBS played all the Braves games. She even got Baseball Digest briefly. In retrospect, that's weird as fuck my old ass grandma living in a trailer getting Baseball Digest. What the fuck? Anyways, I am not a Braves fan, though I have always tacitly respected them because they won the NL East like 39 out of 42 times it felt like, and their model was basically what the Nationals have tried to emulate - strong motherfuckin' pitching rotation, backed up by some piecemeal dudes who knock in some runs to counter-balance that shit. It is not quite clicking for the Nats like that though, and sure you can't just be like "okay, we've got the best motherfuckin' pitching rotation ever!" because it's not like signing dudes and it magically happens. But the Nats seemed to think they had magically gotten close what with all the Maximum Scherzers and Doug Fisters (lol) and Strasborgs and Gios and the pitching Zimmermann guy (I think he's the one with the extra "n"). But it ain't happening yet.
Yesterday's game was more of the same - other team consistently smacking up the P. I mean, Fister wasn't horrible by box score's look, but he gave up 5 runs total, which also ain't good, even if he did scatter them. A pitching staff that is scattering 8 runs and 13 hits over 9 innings isn't building a foundation for the success. But that's doubled-up by the more of the same on offense - 5 hits total, and only one from the top four in the line-up (though The Ultimate Harper was walked twice, as is becoming commonplace, because fuck man nobody else is doing shit so just walk him all the time I guess). So it's another loss, and now a six-game losing streak, which is leading me to again - for the second time - question whether "Rise to Glory" remains appropriate. I know, I know - it's still early, not even May, but Friday is May, and there is a lack of clicking going on here and by now - one month into the season, you'd hope for at least a little bit of fucking clicking going on.
Nats are 7-13.

NATS RISE TO GLORY game thirteen

Stephon Cyborg looked good, and The Ultimate Harper got as many walks as at-bats, and though his average is lackluster thus far early in this season that doesn't really count yet, Ryan Zimmerman was clocking some RBIs this weekend against the Phillies, including 2 yesterday, which was all they needed. Top three of the line-up scored all four runs. That's good offensive foundation. I build my offensive baseball philosophy on line-up pyramid, split into thirds. Top of the line-up should score a thousand runs, because they are your fast sneaky fuckers who always get on base then when no one is looking are standing on third like "What? Can I brush the dirt off my knees ump?" Then your middle of the line-up are the brutes and psychic forces like what that Beast Mode dude was a few years ago for the Nats and The Ultimate Harper probably could be better than any other baseball dork specimen currently active. That part of the line-up should just durr-smash in half a thousand runs to complement the top of the line-up. Then your bottom third is your leftovers, but they pick scraps up because the other side's pitching is demoralized and forgets to pay attention in adderall baseball ways. So though they don't score as many runs nor run up the averages and stats as much, the bottom third is essentially the part that destroys the opponent psyche. Shit like pitchers getting stand-up doubles. So perhaps the top-third is coming on, and the pitching will have run support, and these Nats truly will Rise to Glory. Or perhaps the Phillies fucking suck. Shrug emoticon.
Nats are 6-7.