July 30 at Marlins Park in Miami, FL
MASN
Max Scherzer was excellent, tossing seven shut out innings and Ryan Zimmerman launched a lead off, solo home run in a 1-0 Washington victory, but the story any time you listen to a Nationals game on MASN is F.P. Santangelo. And by "story" I mean "the thing you dislike the most."
Santangelo is like something that fell out of Vin Scully's ear.
The worst part about Santangelo, besides the fact that his name is "F.P.", is that he tries to be funny and just isn't.
For instance, after Bryce Harper doubled with two outs in the top of the first, F.P.S. said "there goes the no-hitter."
* He's also about as corny as commentators get, and commentators get really, really corny. Let's check out a young man I like to call Corn.P. Santangelo:
"It's like horseshoes and hand grenades (chuckle)"
(To the kids watching at home): "Get your uni dirty, make your parents wash it."
(On a long foul ball by Harper into the upper deck behind the first base dug out): "If that wall wasn't there, that's all the way back to the hotel."
* F.P.S. loves to use the word crossfire when talking about Scherzer's throwing motion. During a Christian Yelich at bat in the second he said: "he's a crossfire guy," "the crossfire affect," and "uphill crossfire affect."
Total "crossfires" - 5
* And finally, this was said: "I had nightmares of a zombie Kenny G coming to get me with a saxophone last night."
Pardon?
* Play-by-play man Bob Carpenter does not get to skip along to tomorrow's pre-game media meal without discussing his actions Thursday afternoon. First, Carpenter said the following after Zimmerman's HR: "that ball was hangin', and that ball was bangin', and later Bobby added this about Michael Taylor: "Michael's ability to get on base out of the 8-spot in the order will really help the Nats."
Taylor on-base percentage this season: .286.
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