Nationals Inquisition

The Washington Nationals will not be offering arbitration to several players. Nationals.com:

The Nationals did not offer arbitration to any of their free agents, which include catcher Josh Bard, right-hander Livan Hernandez, outfielder Austin Kearns, left-hander Ron Villone and first baseman Dmitri Young.

None of the players were Type A or B free agents — rankings are based on a player’s performance during the previous two seasons.

The only player possibly being considered for the Nats uniform again is reliever Ron Villone who illustrious manager Jim Riggleman who once referred to as, “a leader by example.”

Lord almighty. The Nats are acting like a real baseball team or at least doing a good job pretending to do so. All of these players shouldn’t be offered arbitration or really even considered for a return. If Jim “Cowboy Pants” Bowden were still at the helm they’d probably all be signed for another three years. Okay, that is an exaggeration, but you know what I mean.

The only one that we are sad to see go is Austin Kearns. He came to D.C. in a storm of hoopla and he leaves it under a pile of crap. Such potential, we really wish he could have worked out. That arm in right field was sweet. Like a cannon. And we always enjoyed trying to chase him down in Florida and utterly fail.

Alas, all good times must come to an end. All ships must pass in the night. There is a last page to every book, word to every story.

And this is the end of this blog posting because I can’t think of anything else to say.