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A Toast to the 2020 Washington Nationals
The Nats entered 2020 on a high like few others - coming off an improbable postseason run that led to the franchise’s first World Series title and basking in the glory knowing they had defeated the villains of the baseball universe in the Houston Astros.
The Nationals, for the second season in the row, lost an MVP caliber player in free agency as Anthony Rendon left for the Los Angeles Angels. However, when two of the most impactful heroes of the 2019 postseason, Stephen Strasburg and Howie Kendrick, were both re-signed, there was optimism in Washington that there was some magic left and the team could go on a run once again.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic delayed the season’s start, Nationals players were active, with Max Scherzer
being one of
the leading voices in the MLBPA’s negotiations, and
the players pushing their team’s ownership over paying Minor League salaries.. Eventually, the negotiations were figured out and play would resume. The Nationals would be without several pieces to start the season however. 2020 was the first year in Nationals history without franchise cornerstone Ryan Zimmerman, who opted-out due to concerns about his mother’s health and a newly born son. Joe Ross, a pitcher who has shown flashes of greatness in his several years with the team, opted-out as well. Most of all, the team would miss Stephen Strasburg, fresh off a new 7-year contract, for several games to begin the season on the IL. As reigning champs, the Nats featured on opening night against the Yankees. Everything seemed in place until…
An Opening Night to Remember Mere hours before the first pitch,
Juan Soto tested positive for COVID, which later turned out to be a false positive. An adopted Nationals fan, Dr. Anthony Fauci was invited to
“throw” out the first pitch of Opening Day in DC. Rob Manfred looked like a supervillain on national TV. The game didn’t even finish as the Yankees beat the Nationals in 6 innings
due to a storm stoppage. The negative result, unfortunately, portended much of the Nationals season.
The natinaLs The Nationals’ 2019 season was defined by their resiliency and resurgence after a rough 19-31 start. In 2020, they were on a similar start, at one point even matching the 19-31 record. Unfortunately, there is no room for a miracle comeback in a 60-game season. Inconsistency defined the season, as the Nats were never able to string more than 2 wins together until late September, at which point it was too late. The Nats were eliminated from the playoffs on September 24th, and became the 3rd defending World Series champion to finish last in their division.
The rotation, long the strength of their team, collapsed to the 4th worst ERA in MLB. Stephen Strasburg, already missing time at the start of the season, pitched only 2 games before heading to the IL for the rest of the season with carpal tunnel issues. Scherzer and Corbin both had solid seasons, but the back half of the rotation was a disaster. The bullpen wasn’t as historically bad as it was in 2019, but remained subpar.
Offensively...well, abandon all production, ye
who click on this link. The Nationals had two MVP-caliber players and then an absolute black hole in the remainder of the lineup. Of particular concern were the lackluster performances at the plate by young Victor Robles and Carter Kieboom, players that Nats fans hoped could replace the production of the departed Anthony Rendon.
The Curly Ws It wasn’t all bad in 2020. Even with the subpar record, the season still felt more or less like a victory lap. The fresh memories of a championship and extenuating circumstances of the year 2020 were able to numb any pain, and Nats fans were just glad to have any baseball at all. Especially when we got to watch:
- Juan GOATo/Han Soto/Juan DES-PA-SOTO: Juan Soto continued his torrid pace of development, cementing his status among baseball’s superstars. It was another year of breaking numerous “before turning age X” records, as he put up arguably the best offensive performance in all of MLB in 2020. Unfortunately, the false positive COVID test he received at the start of the year, plus one injury stint, limited him to 47 games played. If he played a full season, he very well could’ve had an MVP award at age 21. Soto is enough reason to watch Nationals games, and we are extremely excited to see him continue to soar.
- Trea “Bae” Turner: Trea Turner, long noted in baseball for his unique skillset, finally put it all together for the best season of his still-young career. A surge in the second half of the season (likely powered by newly acquired Dad strength) led to career highs in non-counting stats and a 7th place finish in MVP voting. Personally, Trea has been my favorite Nats player since his rookie season and I wish for you all to love him as much as ILoveArtHistory and I do.
A Farewell to Arms & Bats The offseason moves of 2019-20 very much had a “run it back” feel, with most of the team returning. However, this offseason has signaled the departure of several long-time Nationals and I wanted to point them out:
- Michael A Taylor: The Baby-Faced Assassin. He was never a star in DC, yet has been with the team since 2014 and is fondly remembered by the Nats online fandom for among other things, his face of extreme jubilance, his 2017 NLDS performance & grand slam, and his 5.000 OPS in the World Series. Best of luck with the Royals.
- Adam Eaton: Acquired via trade in 2017, Eaton missed much of his first two seasons due to injuries, yet became an integral part of the 2019 squad. He has returned to the White Sox in FA, so we’ll miss you Spanky, and especially your celebrations. Howie Kendrick: Perpetually underrated player, professional hitter, and owner of two of the most legendary moments in the Nats’ short history. He has decided to retire from MLB. Thank you for the memories Howie, and remember - bang foul poles, not trash cans.
- Sean Doolittle: A fan favorite in DC for his colorful personality, terminal online-ness, results on the field, and social activism off of it. Doolittle’s season was prematurely ended due to an oblique injury and it remains to be seen where he’ll end up after hitting FA this offseason. If he has thrown his last pitch in DC, he will be remembered for years to come.
- Ryan Zimmerman, maybe: Uncertain if this is a goodbye yet, because he hasn’t made anything official for 2021. There’s nothing I can’t say about him that already hasn’t been said. A local boy, the first draft pick after relocation, the first player that made you want to watch the Nationals, hit the first World Series HR in Nationals history, Mr. Walkoff, and most of all, Mr. National. It felt weird watching Nationals baseball without him last year, and if his opt-out in 2020 becomes a retirement in 2021, then we should start casting the statue now to have it ready by Opening Day.
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I have a decent PC: GTX 1060, Ryzen 5 2600x, 16gb RAM, M.2 SSD. Working in Premiere is incredibly frustrating. The previews get so choppy SOMETIMES that I'm unable to work on the project. I press the spacebar and I have to wait 3-4 seconds before it even starts playing, and when it does it plays a frame per second if I'm lucky. This is most often the case when there's a few layers with effects stacked, but it often happens on plain untouched single layer footage. When I check task manager, the CPU utilization sometimes reaches 100%, while GPU/RAM never come close. Also, when I open a project it takes premiere maybe 30 seconds to even allow me to click anything and show thumbnails in the project files bin. One thing I should mention is this didn't use to happen before. It's only been in the past few months that I've been struggling with it.
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EDIT: Guys I'd appreciate some actual solutions. Everyone keeps saying h.264, mp4 and VFR are bad, but no one's giving me any alternatives. Every OBS tutorial or forum post I can find says "record in .mkv, remux to .mp4, use Nvidia NVENC H.264 over x264". I've even followed Nvidia's official guide to the best OBS settings. Is there even a way to record what you guys consider "good" clips with OBS? Like I said, this wasn't even a problem until a few months ago so I must've messed something up either on the recording or editing side. Looking for suggestions on actual settings I can experiment with to possibly resolve this.
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