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Words cannot describe the feelings I have behind this so I will just let you read the article from the DCist:

Via the masnsports twitter feed, it appears that some preposterously deluded reality television production company has picked the wrong major league baseball team to build a superfan show around. To wit:

Remember the scene in Fever Pitch where Jimmy Fallon nearly attacks his UPS guy for his season tickets? How about all the challenges he faces throughout the movie as he struggles to balance his baseball fandom with real life?

A local production company is looking to capture those types of moments in a new reality series about Nats fans. IMG Studios, a respected, established production company in Washington DC is looking for die-hard Nationals fans to appear in the series starting this offseason.

“The person or group of friends must find it hard to balance an active social life, romantic relationship, work or family with the “other person” (Nationals) in their life,” said IMG Studios in their Casting Call.

Ooof. This sounds like it has the potential to be the saddest reality show ever. Sadder than Intervention, even. You can almost picture the third act break cliffhanger: will our rabid Nats fan leave the stadium during the 7th inning, or the 8th?

Okay, whoa, wait, I just got the words: failing trout dog. I think that pretty much about sums it all up. There is a part of me that wants to actually try out for this, but the problem is, I don’t have much of a social life to “balance” between this blog, keeping tabs on players, writing and the endless supply of women that walk through my door looking for the sexy guy who is related to legendary New York Mets reliever Joe Vitko.

That all doesn’t include the self-buttering and Sci-Fi conventions I also attend, but don’t tell my friends about because I can’t have my studly reputation ruined. Don’t worry, I’ll delete that part in editing later.  I am just too swamped.

Sadly, if this show gets beyond the pilot, it will probably have higher ratings than Nationals games themselves.

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