Up at 3 am for Pope festivities in DC - but I'm not giving up until I see the conclusion of this game.
A few passing thoughts...
- Why are teams throwing it around the horn, catcher to first baseman, when a right-handed batter strikes out?
- The Nats play-by-play guys on MASN are just plain terrible.
- It never gets old for someone in the room to say "Hats for bats," whenever the artist formerly known as Carlos Delgado comes to the plate. But, it's kind of sad that Delgado's bat is so slow that he is unable to catch up on fastballs middle/in at this point. Somewhere Pedro Serrano just started weeping.
- This kid Nieves on the Nats has an impressive arm behind the plate. But Don Sutton wants to have his children, and it's beginning to make me uncomfortable.
- And finally ... Jorge Sosa makes me very uncomfortable. Is there one of these guys on every major league roster? I immediately think of Farnsworth on the Yankees, Manny Delcarmen on the Sox, Tom Gordon on the Phils ... These are guys who may be effective most of the time but just make you nervous.
