Posts tagged ‘Hope?’

If you have been following along at home… as we know you have… you have taken note that the 2008 season for the Washington Nationals has left the boys at Natscast a bit frustrated, unimpressed and to say the least — pissed. And that’s not counting what you can’t see or hear behind the scenes. But don’t worry; we will have a nice compilation of ‘best of’ at the end of the season (it might even go straight to video, exciting).

So now, we’re at a point where the team is bad, everyone knows it, and the trade deadline is just upon us. Usually I like to carry false hope through at least August before I get crushed, but these guys have said goodbye to that a long time ago. Now I find myself getting so off topic with stuff like best jerseys, beards, baseball names (we have a bunch that we will unveil on a rainy day) that we forget about the team itself.

So in an attempt to get back to the meaning of this blog here is my best assessment for the team at this juncture.

Fans finally are getting a glimpse at the team they signed up to watch. Zimmerman is back, as is Milledge. Great to see those guys in uniform again. Even if they make mistakes, they are Day 1 starters, ya know? The only problem is that the Nats still have a good crop of guys on the DL with no real end in sight. This is a problem and the main reason that the “wait till next year” shirt is a best seller.

The other situation is that upper management has gotten trade happy, pulling the trigger prematurely on Jon Rauch and selling out Chad Cordero on the radio. Congrats Jim Bowden, you have successfully alienated some of the fan base by essentially cutting our pitching staff from the 7^th inning on and insulted the Chief – one of the “faces of the franchise” – to the point that he lets every one know it. I know they have apparently patched things up and Chad might still sign here, but I can’t blame him if he walks. Just after I backed Bowden he goes and does this. Moron.

Translation: They aren’t very good, they won’t be for at least two years, but I will still watch. I figured I got in at the ground level so I might as well stick it out. Hell, if I can live long enough to see the Rays and Buccaneers get good and the Red Sox and Celtics return to glory, the Nationals might have a chance.