Are you saying it is BS that the formula contains that or it is BS that the formula needs to contain that to better predict voters?

But then we live in a world where Derek Jeter has five Golden Gloves and by some weird coincidence the "most outstanding player in collegiate football" is almost always a quarterback or running back and has only once ever been a defensive player.

That's why we need to go to purely algorithmic awards and thus enter into the calm pax statistica that has been pioneered by the BCS.

In as much as I was at all serious - the latter.

It wasn't a good day at the ballpark when you're up 7 to 1, eventually score 9 runs and lose by 13.

Yay, another year with Vinny!

He probably has to keep working if he ever hopes to get paid.

Most of the time when a balk is called I can watch the replay 100 times and never see anything. But those two last night seemed like textbook examples to me, I don't know what Tracy is whining about.

Man, it takes a special brand of suck to be as bad as the Dodgers while carrying a legitimate Cy Young candidate and possible 40-40 center fielder.

With 15 (16 if they or the Nats somehow claw back into contention....so 15) games left, at least there's still hope that they'll finish > .500 AND maybe even make up the 4.5 games on the Giants.

Sadly (in that they haven't been playing like this all season), they've been playing pretty decently lately (the last two games not withstanding). They just came off a pretty good road trip.

If your hope for the season is in any way related to the Nats not performing well, I see good things in your future.

Mostly against the Rockies, the Padres, the Nats, and the Giants. Yeah, the Cards and the Braves were thrown in there, but most of their success came against teams that have either been terrible all season, or the Giants who have been playing like crap for a while now. Hard to get too optimistic about it.

That said, there does seem to have been a pretty noticeable turn around since Dave Hansen took over as batting coach. Also, their improvement coincided with that game where James Loney warmed up as an emergency reliever and then got like 4 RBI in the game. I seriously expected to start seeing him warming up in the bullpen every game after that.