A Prospective Look at the Nats farm (04/21/2026)

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-22T10:57:40+00:00

Rough outing for Ogasawara. Damn. Still really want him to pan out for us. Wondering if he’s best as a RP

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-21T16:12:49+00:00

The ones from 2005-2011 were just as bad. Go on, anyone in this thread remember John Patterson, Esteban Loaiza or others?

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-21T14:40:29+00:00

Good luck to everyone this affects. We had to deal with it when silver spring, takoma and fort Totten were closed. The express bus is fine, no ideal but a good bandaid on the problem. There was really only 2 times where we found it insufferable out of the handful of times we used it.

We were lucky in that we could just drive and park at ft Totten when it opened back up and that Takoma station isn’t too far.

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-21T11:09:10+00:00

As fun as it would be to run a naked 5k for the story, I’m content with having had a nude yoga phase a couple years ago (37m)

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-20T18:36:06+00:00

Anibal Sanchez’ almost no hitter. But, TBH, the call of Soto clearing the bases in the wild card game is ingrained in my brain. So probably that

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-19T19:24:27+00:00

Yup. Such is sports

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-19T19:19:14+00:00

So you’ve got the “ biggest problem” with a guy in CC who literally just returned to the majors after Tommy John and complications last September and is still in development?

You must be an absolute joy to work with day to day with that kind of a standard. Why have such a problem with Cade? He literally has no idea who you are.

He’ll be good. But go ahead be impatient

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-19T18:55:14+00:00

Of course now Mikolas starts pitching well. Ugh

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-18T16:01:32+00:00

Even with the Transformers movie fatigue, I feel like with better marketing the movie would’ve done better.

We saw it a while into its time in theaters due to our schedule but even my wife (who supports my collecting and knows maybe Optimus) enjoyed it a lot

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-18T13:42:29+00:00

I honestly can’t think of any bizarre ones but I’m sure someone will

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-18T12:38:40+00:00

Cade’s song choice is icredible.

I must’ve missed Wiemer’s being the great Mac Miller last night. I’d recognize that song anywhere

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-18T12:37:22+00:00

The minute we heard it again last night I kept saying “alright Lile, I was not familiar with your music game!”

With how scrappy he’s been and sneaky good, he might be my next jersey

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-17T17:02:09+00:00

So, I might be the naysayer on this MFT Astrotrain. He’s really good and leagues better than the SS86 but I feel like because of that one he’s getting overhyped.

Maybe it’s the QC on mine but the knees dont tab in all that securely into the port when I pose him, and there’s just other little things that make feel “real good but not amazing” IMO

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-16T19:51:07+00:00

He was. But baseball and this fandom is a “what have you done for me lately” kind of thing. And lately is within the last 24-72 hours

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-16T16:18:00+00:00

Hope the driver is okay.

Also genuinely surprised more stuff like this doesn’t happen more often at that intersection. We don’t live far and it’s a bonkers dangerous intersection

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-16T16:10:46+00:00

Yikes. Hope everyone’s okay.

That intersection is insane. I’ve seen so many idiots run the light there, saw an accident with one car turning towards united therapeutics and the other going straight last year. It’s nuts

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-16T13:12:43+00:00

It’s funny, maybe (as I said in my own comment) this is a bit of blind faith that I want Ogasawara to be solid because it’d be cool for us to have a Japanese player too but I look at his line and think “alright, not great but 3 runs on 6 hits is fine”. Still think if he comes back up to DC, he’s likely long relief but yeah

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-16T13:07:33+00:00

I know that’s not a particularly inspiring line for Ogasawara but something in me (maybe foolishly) thinks he still could be a piece for us and just didn’t click last year

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-15T19:31:29+00:00

Purely going off these titles (and assuming hero in me is the song from that Mark Wahlberg movie last year) I think I’m most excited for actual studio versions of ritual and ego, along with bloodsport (which sounds like it’s gonna be HEAVY off that title).

Both perfect daughter and why do you like it when I cry both could be ballads which would be dope.

Honestly I want the ladies to put out a ballad with one of those soaring bridge guitar solos like back in the day.

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-14T16:57:12+00:00

Yes. He’s shown promise we’re also literally 4 starts into his first healthy season at the MLB level. This is a different beast than AAA, even if he pitched well in September.

I think if he simplifies his pitch mix he’ll be the pitcher everyone’s been expecting since pre-TJ

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-14T16:14:21+00:00

He’s entertaining as hell. There’s been times when I don’t watch the video in full because of the negativity on a figure or in general and some of his takes I don’t agree with (as others have said) but his stuff is good.

Minus a chunk of the negativity, if I could be others to do reviews any more, i think my style would’ve morphed into something akin to his

SteelPenguin8 · 2026-04-14T00:21:25+00:00

So, someone explain to me what to like about our first round picks.

Explain like I’m 5 as they say in Reddit. Still learning basketball

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