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Old 05-13-2008, 03:46 PM   #1
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Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
Since it helped break a slump, maybe this is something the Reds should do?

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Whoa Nellie! Figueroa rips Nats' chants

Mild-mannered Nelson Figueroa was livid at the Washington Nationals on Monday night for what he described as bush-league chanting coming from their dugout.”They were cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls,” Figueroa said after the Mets lost to Washington, 10-4, in the series opener. “I’m a professional, just like anybody else. I take huge offense to that. If that’s what a last-place team needs to do to fire themselves up, so be it. I think you need to show a little bit more class, a little bit more professionalism. They won tonight, but again, in the long run, they are who they are.”

Of course, Lastings Milledge was in the middle of the controversy.

“Well, what were we supposed to do? We’re not supposed to cater to anybody on the opposing team,” Milledge said. “We’re not going to cater to him or anybody else. We’ve been down the last couple of days and we wanted to get something going. And if he doesn’t like it, then he’s got to deal with it. Anybody don’t like it, they just have to deal with it.”
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Old 05-13-2008, 03:51 PM   #2
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
I have no problems with this. Its sorta kidish but if it keeps the dugouts morale up...so be it.
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Old 05-13-2008, 03:51 PM   #3
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
Figueroa could have tried to silence them by not pitching like crap...
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
"They were cheering and it hurt my feewings"
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Old 05-13-2008, 03:57 PM   #5
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
I guess some people don't have better things to do with their time than to rip other teams for cheering.
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Old 05-13-2008, 04:00 PM   #6
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
If they are content with being the happiest last place club in baseball, then more power to them.
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Old 05-13-2008, 04:23 PM   #7
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
What do they have to lose?? Why not?
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
Good to see the enthusiasm when they do well. It helps show that they still care and want to do well.
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
Figueroa was just DFA'd by the Mets
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
After pitching badly and THEN complaining about something like this, it is no surprise he's DFA
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Figueroa was just DFA'd by the Mets
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Hope the Nats pick him up.
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
Figueroa said it wasn't the cheering FOR their team that bothered him it was when they broke out they said he had a rubber arm that really was just over the line.
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Re: Nats ripped for "cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls”
Sounds really dumb, gotta sort of agree wit Figueroa on this one.
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Sounds really dumb, gotta sort of agree wit Figueroa on this one.

Whatever they are doing, I'm sure it's as annoying as hell but if you're a player, you need to worry about your own business.
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