An HILARIOUS piece by Charles Pierce on the NATS.

[pangaia]

DEADSPIN

DON'T MAKE ME ROOT FOR THESE CREATURES TO BE HAPPY !


There’s a reason why Washington didn’t have a baseball team for 33 years—it’s because Washington sucks gallons of pondwater as a sports town and even more of it as a baseball town. Its hockey team is built around one of Vladimir Putin’s linemates. Its NBA team is nondescript when it’s not embarrassing. Its football team plays under a racial slur for a nickname and it is owned by one of the world’s most embarrassing humans. And, sorry, but Washington had two tries as a baseball town and it punked out both times.





https://deadspin.com/dont-make-me-root-for-these-creatures-to-be-happy-1839293478

[shenmue]

1. Fuck off, Charlie Pierce

[pangaia]

2. Hahaha

[Mersky]

3. Goodness. I oddly enjoyed that.

It’s hard to not be cynical about everything, including baseball, and all that it takes to build a team (or keep team$ together). I’m just glad to be watching the Astros in the World Series, currently, ... lumps and all. I’ll get to Osuna later, because I just don’t know what to think as I missed that whole debacle as last year was difficult for me with elder family members’ health crises.

I could go on to bemoan the state of the VIP section behind the plate in Houston, but won’t at this point. I know that a vast and diverse set of Houstonians are loving this. I’m enjoying the Nationals, too - they’re dangit good. So, from my uppity-but-sliding middle class perspective, there’s a bit of that weird-assed call to unity begging to be overcooked by big media that Pierce hollers about.

Also, ya can’t slag an entire city for one person or thing about it unless it’s Dallas, so there’s that.




(Am just kidding and not about Dallas.)

[pangaia]

6. when I watched football I hated the Cowboys.. "America's Team, MY ASS!

[Freddie]

4. This is hilarious

“And then there’s the president himself. As if to place a cow chip atop a manure sundae, he let it be known that he will be in attendance at Sunday’s game.”
Go Nats!

[JanetLovesObama]

5. And what in the hell is that

"Baby Shark" crap????????? The Washington Walgreens ?????? Sad.

[pangaia]

7. I don;t even watch MLB any more, just thought it was brilliant writing...