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Nats GM Mike Rizzo to Buck and the O's: STFU about rain-out in May, we had to fly 3,000 miles and still kicked your ass

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After Thursday night's loss, O's manager Buck Showalter quipped that the weather was "marginally better" than it had been in May.

Rizzo had no interest in Showalter's veiled comments as Thursday's game replaced a scheduled off day that was coming after a nine-game West Coast trip for Washington. The Orioles had played Wednesday at home -- less than 40 miles away from D.C.

"It rained all day that day, and the forecast said it would rain until 9:30 or 10," Rizzo told The Washington Post, recalling the events of May 11. "I sat in Buck's office at 6:30, and we talked about it for 20 minutes. He was 100 percent on-board. He didn't say anything about not canceling the game.

"Their GM [Dan Duquette] was nowhere to be found for three, four hours. We wanted to play the next day. They refused to play then, so the next [open] day was [Thursday]. They drove 32 miles to get there. We flew 3,000 [expletive] miles, and we beat their [behinds]. So quit your whining. Quit whining."

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19598581/washington-nationals-gm-mike-rizzo-says-buck-showalter-baltimore-orioles-quit-whining-rainout

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LOL. I like the gratuitous jab at Duquette for being "nowhere to be found for three, four hours". Rizzo seems oddly PO'd about a fairly indirect comment on the suckiness of rainouts by Buck. Do the Nationals fly coach? The last time I drove from D.C. to Baltimore it took marginally less time than my cross country flights. Granted, I somehow failed to grasp the gravity of trying to make the trip at 5PM on a Friday.

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2 hours ago, LookitsPuck said:

He isn't wrong. Good for Rizzo to call out the idiocy. Buck was whining plain and simple. Grow up, Buck. Play the damn game and right this sinking ship. Same goes to Duquette. 

Sorry, but he is wrong.  The rain-out was ridiculous.  I umpired a baseball game in Montgomery County that night and was very surprised to hear that the Nationals had called their game.  They quite rightly took heat for doing so.  It was surely playable.  The decision is the home team's and saying that the visiting team's manager didn't argue with them is simply an absurd point.  What is he supposed to do, jump up and down and yell and scream?  The Nationals blew it, plain and simple.  Classless statement by Rizzo, IMO.

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8 minutes ago, Uli2001 said:

He is the one who should stop whining. He's mad because the Orioles have owned the Nationals.

Really he is upset the the Orioles have "owned the Nationals"

LOL, he is a top notch GM that has built a top 3 ML franchised, meanwhile DD has systematically destroyed the Orioles franchise and ushered in a new multil year era of irrelevancy

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41 minutes ago, webbrick2010 said:

Really he is upset the the Orioles have "owned the Nationals"

LOL, he is a top notch GM that has built a top 3 ML franchised, meanwhile DD has systematically destroyed the Orioles franchise and ushered in a new multil year era of irrelevancy

I see a touched a nerve there.

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It was a pathetic decision to call the game, and reflected poorly on the Nationals. The Baysox played a home game 15 miles away without delay, and it had stopped raining in SE DC by 6-615 and didn't rain again all night. My buddies and I at the bar pregaming could have made that meteorological call, and we did.

Got no problem with Buck giving them crap for it. And if Rizzo wants to go high and right with his response, up to him I guess. His franchise is still the one that looks foolish in all this.

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Looking at what Buck said, I don't really see where he blamed the Nationals for anything.    His initial comments were here: http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2017/06/showalter-on-jones-machado-davis-at-more.html

And then his comments after the game are here:  http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2017/06/nats-do-lots-of-running-in-makeup-game-to-defeat-os-6-1.html

The "worst" thing he said was a crack about the weather being "marginally better" for this game compared to the one that was rained out.    None of the remarks really point to the Nats.    If I were Rizzo, I would have just left it alone.     But whatever, nothing he said was wrong.   

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13 minutes ago, ReclaimTheCrown said:

 

Got no problem with Buck giving them crap for it. And if Rizzo wants to go high and right with his response, up to him I guess. His franchise is still the one that looks foolish in all this.

Well, they won the make-up game and are running away with their division, so they don't look too foolish to me.   

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1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Well, they won the make-up game and are running away with their division, so they don't look too foolish to me.   

I don't mean in the greater scheme of things, I mean in terms of canceling a baseball game when it wasn't raining, hadn't torrentially rained all day (it was a pretty garden variety light rain most of the day, if I recall correctly), and clearly wasn't going to rain the rest of the night. If I can definitively make that call with my iPhone a few beers deep at Willies bar, the Nationals should be able to decipher that brain teaser with all the resources available to them.

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