Maybe we should have known that it was too good to be true, something that was never meant to last. Our own utopian vision of a perfect summer romance -- a riveting and competitive campaign by our Washington Nationals -- seemed less like a pipe dream after Baseball Prospectus' highly-anticipated PECOTA projections predicted that the Nationals would finish the season with a record of 82-80. PECOTA even suggested that the Nats would be but mere games behind in the National League playoff race. more ›

TUESDAY: The experts at Baseball Prospectus are back at Politics and Prose to talk about America's favorite pastime. Specifically, Clay Davenport and Jay Jaffe will be discussing It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over, a collection of stories on baseball's most exciting pennant races. 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY: A recent New Yorker article commented on the controversy behind Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer's argument in their latest book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.... more ›

I have a small confession. Months ago, when I agreed to take over Nats coverage for DCist, I was anticipating a historically bad season. The kind of season that I could tell my children about, and allow me to forever hold my head above future bandwagon fans. So imagine my surprise that on my inaugural post there are a staggering seven teams with worse records than the Nats, despite seven Washington losses in their last... more ›