The Washington Nationals and Alfonso Soriano, outside his apartment:

Fonzi: Wow. That was intense.

Nats: Seriously. You were amazing. I don’t know how you kept producing through all of that.

Fonzi: Oh, I was o.k. I was just worried about you. I mean, I love being with you. I love it here. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be. I didn’t like it when you were talking to all those other teams.

Nats: I know. I’m sorry. I don’t even know why I did that. You know how I feel about you. We should do this again sometime. What are you doing in 2007?

Fonzi: Two thousand seven. Hmmm. I don’t… I don’t know what I’m doing yet. I’ll call you next week?

Nats: Oh. I see…

Fonzi: No, seriously! You’re my boo, you know that! I’ll call you.
…Seriously!

That was pretty much the story for the Nats this week, happy (publicly, at least) in keeping their star and showing him some love. Pundits and bloggers, meanwhile, remain unconvinced that Bowden didn’t fall victim to his own ego and bluster, and blow a prime opportunity to help rebuild the farm system.

GM-wanna-be’s aside, the move thrilled many Nats fans, who will now be able to see Soriano chase some historic power/speed numbers for the rest of the summer (he’s nearly on pace for 50 homers and 40 steals). And we can hold out hope that all Soriano’s talk about loving Washington and the Nats is worth something at the bargaining table this winter when the Nats try to sign him on the open market.