The Nationals have gone 5-5 over their last ten games, which has to be considered an achievement. Their record is a Major League worst 49-85. With 28 games left in the season it doesn’t look like they will get to 63 wins, thus staving off 100+ loses, or get out of last place in the whole league. This isn’t a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the team this year, but judging from the recently released radio listener numbers, no one is paying attention. The fun stat from the study is that more people go to one game on average, 29,990, then listen to the Nats on the radio in a week, 26,500. For those that doubt the validity of the numbers, take heart in this quote: “the microscopic numbers reported by the rating service might be too low to be statistically valid.”

Steven Hunter thinks that hate is the cure for the ailing Nats fan. While he does make some compelling points, his conclusion that we should direct our scorn at the President’s Race is clearly misguided. In Steven’s defense, he did write that article before Teddy Roosevelt raced in a Manny Ramirez do-rag. Honestly, after Zimmerman’s walk-off homerun to start the season, this is probably the greatest moment of the season.

That said, last night the Nationals completed a three game sweep of the Dodgers, with Cristian Guzman hitting for the cycle, making him the 7th player in franchise history to accomplish that feat, and Elijah Dukes hit two home runs. The Dodgers were a team that had post-season aspirations, but after being swept by the Nationals they have to be thinking about disbanding the franchise. According to the rules of this season, someone in the Dodgers organization has to be fired.