WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT, it doesn’t sound good at all. Adam Kilgore gives us the rundown on the Nats’ season so far:
Plenty of teams lose bundles of games. Only the 2009 Washington Nationals saw their bombastic general manager resign during spring training, played part of one game not televised locally, and sent their franchise player on to the field wearing a uniform with the team name misspelled.
This one is definitely worth reading all the way through, at least for little gems like this:
The twin culprits of Washington’s season have been rotten defense (a league-high 64 errors) and the gas-can bullpen (a league-high 16 blown saves). “We’ve seen a lot of things you’ve never seen in baseball,’’ Acta said.