{"id":12570,"date":"2016-06-16T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12570"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:36:04","slug":"those-guys-can-kiss-my-ss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12570","title":{"rendered":"“Those guys can kiss my *ss!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jayson<\/a>

Jayson Werth, right, gave MASN\u2019s Dan Kolko a joyous earful. (Alex Brandon\/AP)<\/p><\/div>\n

I “watched” the Nats-Cubs game in the most “2016”\u00a0way possible yesterday. \u00a0I followed along at nationals.com initially, then was glancing at my MLB app on my phone into the later innings, then caught exciting 9th inning and the potentially gut-punch top 12th on the way home in the car on 106.7, arriving home just after\u00a0Anthony Rendon<\/strong> was tossed for not saying anything after taking a called third strike (which, per Pitch F\/X<\/a>, was low and outside, but was in the zone).<\/p>\n

It was there that I saw the fantastic end of the game live on MASN. \u00a0Danny Espinosa<\/strong> getting a HBP and subsequently stealing second easily. \u00a0Michael Taylor<\/strong> slapping a single to drive him in and tie the game again. \u00a0And then\u00a0Jayson Werth<\/strong>‘s 2nd walk off hit this week, nearly a walk-off homer (he certainly thought it was out at first glance), and a fantastic ending to the most well attended game at Nats park in a while (42,000 announced attendance).<\/p>\n

Instant classic and instant addition to “greatest games” honorable mention list. \u00a0Nats win 4-3 to take the series 2-1 against the perhaps the best team we’ve seen since the 116 win 2001 Seattle team.<\/p>\n

Box Score link<\/a>. \u00a0Bill Ladson<\/strong>‘s great game summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But … for me the best part was the on-field post-game interview. \u00a0It was laugh out loud funny live and its even funnier in the clips. \u00a0If you havn’t seen them, you have to listen<\/a>. \u00a0NSFW obviously. \u00a0But fantastic.<\/p>\n

“Yeah those guys can kiss my *ss!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Its like Werth is the lead singer at a rock concert playing to his crowd during an encore. \u00a0And his hair completely supports that simile \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Great win; great series. \u00a0This team is legit. \u00a0I know they lost four straight to these Cubs and lost the season series by the ugly line of 2-5, but some of those Chicago games were closer than a 4-game sweep would indicate. \u00a0And i’m starting to see national writers dreaming on a Washington-Chicago NLCS. \u00a0Wouldn’t that be great.<\/p>\n

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I “watched” the Nats-Cubs game in the most “2016”\u00a0way possible yesterday. \u00a0I followed along at nationals.com initially, then was glancing at my MLB app on my phone into the later innings, then caught exciting 9th inning and the potentially gut-punch top 12th on the way home in the car on 106.7, arriving home just after\u00a0Anthony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[185,182,3228,135,115,708],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-bill-ladson","tag-dan-kolko","tag-danny-espinosa","tag-jayson-werth","tag-michael-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}