We’ve blogged so much about last Saturday’s Blogger’s Night that the keyboard keys were getting stuck to our fingers and people were going around giving us weird looks and calling us “Edward Keyboardhands.” I didn’t write that joke. It was written by another staff member before I had him hung in the gibbet-irons. But back on point, we’ve been working really hard the past few days with representing the Natosphere and doing multiple write ups, hell, we have even begun the building of a new feature to debut on this site in the near future. So we decided to put it in cruise control tonight and just do a nice, simple, posting. I promised you a final Blogging Night recap post, but I want to sit on that one for awhile so the event can finish germinating in my mind.
Tonight, we give you your Nationals news in quick, easy to read blurbs. It isn’t laziness, it is relaxing. Currently we are writing this blog by candlelight to the sounds of Howlin’ Wolf and with a Jack Daniels bottle nearby. We are also keeping watch on the Nats/Boston game. Top of the 7th, 4-3 Boston and Taravez looks a little in trouble. Though the Nats are being out hit, it looks like they are putting on a show. Or trying to.
Like a local community theater trying to put on a version of Jesus Christ Superstar but thinking they can do it without the character of Jesus.
Bird Droppings – Old news, but I feel the need to report it. The Nationals dropped the last game of the series against the Toronto Blue Jays, 9-4. It snapped the Nats longest winning streak of the season at four. Shairon Martis threw 38 pitches in the first inning that lead to four runs.
The Nationals pitchers are feeding off each other and trying to 1-Up the outing of the guy before him. Competition is good. Let’s just hope they don’t try to replicate this outing and try to prove who can blow it the most. To use a Spaceballs reference: “It’s the Nationals, sir. They’ve gone from suck to blow.”
Matt Chico Sighting - Guess who is wandering around the clubhouse tonight, but no one has been able to get a picture of the mystical creature? Starter Matt Chico. What is he up to these days?
He will have a bullpen session on Wednesday and then join Double-A Harrisburg to continue his rehab assignment on Friday. Chico has already pitched three games for Class A Hagerstown this season, giving up three runs in 11 innings.
There is no timetable as to when Chico will return to the Major Leagues. Chico hasn’t pitched in a game for the Nationals since May 21, 2008.
During Blogger’s Night, manager Manny Acta mentioned that Chico would most likely return to the Nationals by the end of the year when the younger arms are shutdown.
An unconfirmed report says they saw the Matt Chico creature lumber across the locker room, grab a sandwich, and then lumbered out of view. Government officials say it was a weather balloon.
Fenway Park Sucks – Ditching their prima donna attitudes, the Boston Red Sox showed a surprising bit of unity tonight and unanimously agreed that Nationals Park is a pretty darn cool place. Said David Ortiz:
“Boston needs a place like this.”
Boston needs a lot of things, but only the Romans can give it them. You know, stuff like the aqueduct, sanitation, education, and spears with metal heads.
The Birth Of A Nats Blog – It’s amazing the amount of Nationals blogs that keep popping up. It’s like if you throw water on them, they multiply. If you feed them after midnight, they turn into blogs like the NQ. Give them whiskey, they take your daughters. Anyways, the newest blog on the block is Nats By The Numbers which hopes to find it’s own niche in discussing the “jersey numbers, uniforms, and the aesthetics of the Washington Nationals.”
It is only four days old, but the idea and layout look terrific and I like the use of the uniform numbers in the graphics. Check it out and keep your eye on it. It looks pretty damn cool. Not as cool as this blog, but really, what blog is?
Don’t answer that.
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