baseball

First, congrats to the first place Royals for starting so well. And a shout out to Zack Greinke, who is now 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in 20 IP. It is never too early to make World Series Plans.

But the real purpose of this post is to hop on top of the pile by making fun of the Nats. I root for them, but they don't make it easy. The Royals have had some bad teams the last fifteen years or so but I don't ever remember Royals fans feeling as miserable as Nats fans. Opening day was Monday and since I wasn't taking any other time off during our two week recess, I got permission to take a half day so I could go to the game. Since it is the Nats, plenty of tickets were still available...for the home opener...the day of the game. The only problem was that I couldn't find anyone to go with me. This may say a lot about me and my "friends", but it also is kind of damning for the team. Everyone loves opening day, and I couldn't even find anyone who was interested.

Then Fridy nite sonething occured that wus unbelevable. When the home team took the field, the best two players, Zimmerman and Dunn, sported unis that misspelled the name of the team. Seriously. Keep in mind that this is an actual MLB team. Things like that didn't even happen to the Indians in Major League. The good news kept on coming, as the Nats blew a 9th inning lead and lost that night, and then blew a three run 9th inning lead on Saturday and ended up losing by 3 in 11. Maybe today will be better, but when the team is 1-9, it doesn't seem likely.

UPDATE: The good news continued on Sunday, when the Nats bullpen blew another lead by giving up an 8th inning tying home run and then proceeded to give up three more in the ninth for yet another loss. The Post called it a, "repeat matinee of incompetence." The team then sent the entire bullpen to the minors. In Royals news, Farnsworth prevented the Royals from sweeping the Rangers by blowing it in the ninth as well, the second game the team has lost games due to him giving up late inning homers. Is there no one who could do a better job? Why not bring up Bannister and let him work out of the pen?