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Didn't see this posted... Per ESPN

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Nationals say Rob Dibble will no longer work as a TV analyst for the team's games, a split that comes after the former reliever made comments critical of rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg.

Dibble lashed out at Strasburg last week for not pitching through pain. Dibble said on Sirius XM Radio that "you can't have the cavalry come in and save your butt every time you feel a little stiff shoulder, sore elbow."

Strasburg has since been diagnosed with a torn elbow ligament and will have surgery Friday. He will be sidelined 12 to 18 months.

Two days after making those comments, Dibble was absent from the broadcast both on MASN, the network that televises the games. At the time, MASN said Dibble had requested "a few days off."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5521129

:clap3: I can't stand Dibble at all.

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I am not a big fan of Dibble but I don't think he should of gotten fired over this. It was stupid but he could of been allowed to finish the year in my mind. One thing I can say about him is at least he cared about the Nationals and had some passion for them.

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I am not a big fan of Dibble but I don't think he should of gotten fired over this. It was stupid but he could of been allowed to finish the year in my mind. One thing I can say about him is at least he cared about the Nationals and had some passion for them.

There was this, and the comments he made a few weeks ago about the female fans behind home plate. There is also a general consensus that he was not a good announcer.

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There was this, and the comments he made a few weeks ago about the female fans behind home plate. There is also a general consensus that he was not a good announcer.

I think the Orioles should do like the Ravens did with Jim Zorn and hire Dibble to be a backup commentator. I think that would be pretty funny. :laughlol:

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There was this, and the comments he made a few weeks ago about the female fans behind home plate. There is also a general consensus that he was not a good announcer.

I agree with all of that. He had one more year left on his deal, I just would of let him finish this year out after an apology.

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There was this, and the comments he made a few weeks ago about the female fans behind home plate. There is also a general consensus that he was not a good announcer.

I agree with this. The Strasburg comments alone weren't enough, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back. The guy's a loose cannon.

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There was this, and the comments he made a few weeks ago about the female fans behind home plate. There is also a general consensus that he was not a good announcer.

MASN was paying him give his opinion on baseball, not on woman's issues!

"Those ladies right behind there, they haven't stopped talking the whole game," Rob Dibble said in the sixth inning of Wednesday night's Nats broadcast. "They have some conversation going on. Right here," he said, circling the offenders. "There must be a sale tomorrow going on here or something....Their husbands are going man, don't bring your wife next time."

Get it? It's funny because women don't like sports, and so when they accidentally wind up at a baseball stadium and deign to open their mouths, they have to be talking about something that women are interested in. Like sales. Probably on clothes or shoes or maybe makeup, though that wasn't specified.

"All right Bob, now they're back there, they're eating ice cream and talking at the same time," Dibble noted in the top of the eighth.

"I just got an e-mail that said there's a lot of women who come to the games -- while their husbands are the ones at home -- because they love this game," play-by-play man Bob Carpenter noted, briefly touching base with the 21st century. "Tread carefully, Mr. Dibble."

"My wife loves to come to the game, but they're right there, still talking," Dibble countered.

"Well, better there than the two seats behind you on an airplane on a five-hour flight," Carpenter said.

"Yeah, that's true," Dibble agreed.

Then Carpenter started talking about baseball. And then Dibble started talking about something else.

"I was just thinking, those women, there's a new series Real Housewives of D.C. that just came out, he said. "Maybe they're filming an episode?"

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And this is baseball related how?

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I always wondered why Dibble didn't man up and push through the overwhelming pile of suck that was the last 2-3 years of his major league career. According to his own website he was pretty much constantly hurt from 1993-96.

Agreed.

As I listened to the replay of that rant about Strasburg I thought... "Wait...aren't you the same idiot that blew your arm out and ended your career early? And you're here bragging about how you pitched through pain?"

What a dunce.

Nats games are suddenly watchable now.

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