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The 2009 Washington Nationals are worse than the 2008 Washington Nationals. This shouldn’t be the case. Their line-up is better. They’re not having nearly as many injuries. But the team has the worst record in baseball right now and is on course to possibly break records in terms of how many games they lose. It’s gotten so bad that we don’t even turn on the radio stream to listen in the evenings anymore. Instead, we just check in with MLB Gameday periodically to see how bad the carnage is. It is a far, far cry from the first half of the 2005 season, that’s for sure. A commenter over at Nationals Journal summed things up pretty well:
“If they go 0-6 on this road-trip there is no way Manny survives. There has got to be a point at which the Lerners stop asking the questions and StanK starts looking for solutions.”
But we’ve been saying this for WEEKS now. Nothing has changed. The team is now 13-35. The gum-chewing manager sat in the dugout and let the umpiring crew screw his team in NYC, and seemed not to care a bit about it. He refuses to run fielding practices for an incompetent defense. He says over and over again there’s no cause for alarm. As if 13-35 is no cause for alarm.
The organization doesn’t care. Why should we? Yet we do, day after day, come on here and care in a public way. We argue among ourselves about a team whose management and ownership doesn’t care as much as we do.
Could it be any more depressing? Do the Nationals have any desire to do anything with this team and its beautiful stadium? Does Acta have some kind of dirty pictures of the owners?
I am dumb. Completely bereft of any explanation for this travesty.
In my del.icio.us feed I use the tags ‘baseball’ and ‘entertainment’ for links about the Nationals. It has stopped being entertainment though, and just become infuriating. Not the losing so much. But the lifelessness on the part of the players and the apathy on the part of the front office. The ownership of this team has squandered a huge opportunity to build a competitive team and cultivate a deep fanbase. What a waste.
