Monday, April 09, 2007

About those Nationals ...

Today's merciful day off provides a chance to reflect on the first week of the season. So far their record is holding: the Nationals are 1-0 in games in which no one could use our tickets, and 0-6 in games we attended. Clearly we should stop going, except when the Cubs are in town.

There are a couple of bright spots: At no point this season will the Nationals lose to the Yankees on a game-ending grand slam. And, as Andy said after the game yesterday, the Nationals now have 6 straight games where they will not trail going into the bottom of the 1st inning. (They've trailed after half an inning in 5 of the 7 games so far.)

Andy and I decided that because the team is so bad, we are going to keep a separate, "shadow" record for them: any time they lose by fewer than 3 runs, we're calling it a win. Sadly, they still might finish under .500; right now they're 3-4.

5 comments:

dara said...

The good news is that, at least on Friday and Saturday nights, there's a pre- and post-game pub crawl. So, even if the team sucks, everyone can get sloshed and not care.

Jeff said...

Yes, so the Orioles lost to the Yankees on a walk-off grand slam Saturday. We also managed to take 2 of 3 from the Yankees in New York. Right now I'm not so sure the Nationals could take two of three from the hotdog vendor.

Justin S. said...

So much for Alex Rodriguez not being able to come through in the clutch.

violindan said...

The question is, would the Nationals want to take two of three from the hot dog vendor? Reports are the dogs were served up cold on opening day ...

dara said...

I can confirm that, on Opening Day, Bo purchased the most disgusting looking hot dog ever, and he said that it was at least as gross as it looked. (I got a grilled one, it wasn't so bad, even without the bun. But I had to wait on line for 30 minutes for it.)

On Friday night, his chicken tenders looked vastly superior.