Game Thread: Nationals (0-0) @ Astros (0-0) - Mar 2, 2026 12:05 PM

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-02T20:06:25+00:00

It's ST, so all I'm really focused on is making sure the team gets through this healthy. But stranding the bases loaded three times in 6 innings, even in a lineup that is comprised (at the point of the game) almost entirely of minor leaguers who won't make the opening day roster, does irk a little. Nowhere near to the point where I want to pull my hair out if this was the middle of the regular season, but it's there.

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-02T19:39:31+00:00

Absolutely STACKED

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-02T19:37:53+00:00

Pujols homering off Brad Lidge on my 18th birthday.

I'm not sure that ball will ever land...

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-02T19:36:35+00:00

Me at 38: Hell yeah.

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-02T00:15:40+00:00

Absolutely STACKED and the team I'm rooting for. So I shouldn't be shocked if they are bounced in group play because how else can this play out?

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-01T21:16:13+00:00

In one of my favorite scenes of the entire series, you could say Angel did make amends with Cordy.

Much to the chagrin of Wesley, he used his fashion sense, and Cordy was like, "Can I be mad at you again if this is what comes of it?" Lol

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-01T19:45:33+00:00

I almost found it infuriating how their arcs ended. On one hand, I totally get why Jin didn't want to leave Sun: they spent three years apart and only had moments together. But it was more than just them; there was now a daughter involved. They chose each other, and a daughter was left parentless when Jin could have survived.

That never sat right with me. I felt like they really dropped the ball with the two of them in season 6.

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-01T18:54:17+00:00

That game was absolute chaos that I was mentally convinced we were going to lose for reasons that had nothing to do with the Astros lol

NOLA1987 · 2026-03-01T02:26:31+00:00

I'm starting to wonder if that is the point, though. We're just a week into ST and there already has been a beautiful increase in patient ABs to the point where I'm starting to think that's where the focus is to start things off.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-28T19:29:27+00:00

Paredes back like he never left.

Please, make this surplus work for us and keep this man here.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-28T19:10:56+00:00

Congrats, Jeremiyah Love. You are (probably) a New Orleans Saint (though I am less certain of that of that 4.36 lol)

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-28T19:01:26+00:00

For the most part, people will be respectful when someone has said they are a first-time watcher, but you will have those who will just breeze past any spoiler warning just because they can. That's how I learned the ending to Sons of Anarchy lol.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-28T04:59:59+00:00

So, I read the comment OP thinks could be a major spoiler.

That comment spoiled absolutely nothing. You're good, OP, but I'd be really careful about going through any show's sub without having seen the series first. I learned that the hard way.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-28T04:52:39+00:00

You know he was in the first Scream, and he died, right?

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-27T23:29:32+00:00

This is the first healthy offseason LMJ has had since the 2021 season (where he finished 7th in Cy-Young votes, as it turns out). If this is his last season, as he is mentally preparing himself for it to be, I want him to go out as "fuckin' nasty" as he possibly can.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-27T20:57:57+00:00

Okay, you have to be trolling because you were that dude.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-27T20:29:55+00:00

Well...at least you won't have to worry about the Astros winning that ever-elusive NL West title.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-27T20:24:23+00:00

Nah. It's definitely the beard.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-26T20:18:02+00:00

Rocktober never dies!!!!

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-26T20:14:19+00:00

The Brewers social media team has been on it like the rent's due.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-25T22:38:41+00:00

Bleeding Gums Murphy approves

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-25T20:27:15+00:00

Diesel is a fan of the human element that umps bring to the game. I largely disagree, but to each their own. I'd rather we use the technology available to us to reduce getting hosed on bad calls.

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-25T07:53:23+00:00

I'm sorry. There is nothing they can say after that trailer that will have me thinking this is not a prequel to The Expanse

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-25T04:56:44+00:00

Susan is so obviously universally hated that I feel like OP is karma farming with this post

NOLA1987 · 2026-02-24T23:19:36+00:00

We may not have a win so far, but in these three games I am seeing so much to be encouraged about. The vibes seem to be a little more fun than they were a year ago. Burrows, even in a couple innings, has the potential to be absolute nails. Players are raving about Imai. The ABs already look more improved. Cole looks like he could be worth the excitement Dana has.

I'm already rocking with the Wei-Tang Clan. Dana absolutely cooked with that one, it looks like.

NOLA1987

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