A few of our favorite Nats-related quotes from today's papers...
Former Expos manager Felipe Alou, commenting on the sorry state of the Nationals in the Montreal Gazette:
"The way I see it, they are the Washington Nationals now. And they are true to the last few years in Montreal - a last-place team, no fans, a beautiful stadium. It's too sad.
"Hopefully, it'll work in the future, but it's like a warning of some sort."
(Felipe Alou, via Montreal Gazette, 7/3/2009)
Lastings Milledge, from today's Bradenton Herald: He just needs a chance!
"I need a chance, like last year. I just need somebody to believe I can get it done and be patient, because I’m not a very good April, May guy. Sometimes that kind of hurt me. I just need time to play. There’s always going to be somebody breathing down your back, but to the extent where I still have a chance."
(Lastings Milledge, via Bradenton Herald dot com, 7/3/2009)
Mike Rizzo on why Lastings Milledge didn't deserve a fair shake in Washington: Sorry, Lastings, it's about Character!
"It's a huge part of the puzzle...It's a huge part of the makeup of a championship-caliber club. I've been on several championship clubs in the big leagues, and you don't win unless you have guys in the clubhouse that have character, that stick together and that play as a unit."
(Mike Rizzo, via Washington Times, 7/3/2009)
Joel Hanrahan, on why he stunk in Washington, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: He wasn't pitching inside enough!
"I don't know what it was...I made some good pitches over there that they were getting hits on. I probably wasn't pitching inside enough."
(Joel Hanrahan, via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 7/3/2009)
Finally, here's DC Lawyer Stanley M. Brand, from today's Washington Post, on why Scott Boras won't be able to pull off his Strasburg-to-Japan trickery:
"It's an important concept under the law," Brand said. Strasburg, he said, "wasn't born [in Japan]. He hasn't voted there. He doesn't own property there. [A claim of residency] looks like what it is: a ruse to get around the draft."
(Stanley Brand, via Washington Post, 7/3/2009)
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