Ryan Zimmerman has a reflective moment during Sunday’s loss, the Nats’ 11th defeat in 14 games. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Cubs 11, Nationals 3: The Nats lost another one on Sunday, after an Alberto Gonzalez error at short (which looked like one I committed in a beer league softball game last week) opened the floodgates to a seven-run fourth inning. But the Nats getting swept by the Cubs is hardly news.

What is newsworthy (but probably not surprising) is this little piece of information from Paul Schwartzman’s state of the Nationals report — aptly titled “In the Cellar With No Ladder in Sight” — published yesterday:

Willie Harris…dismissed the notion that a losing season could dampen his mood: “I’m not going to lose sleep because I lost a ballgame. I lose sleep when my mother’s sick.”…Joe Beimel, a relief pitcher, acknowledged that losing can make it tough to get excited about going to work. “I keep saying it can’t get any worse, and then something happens,” he said. Referring to the fans, Beimel said: “I’ve been kind of shocked no one gives you a hard time around here. Maybe they just don’t care enough.”

To summarize: here’s one player who doesn’t have a problem admitting that he doesn’t seem to care whether or not the team wins or loses, and another that blames the fans for not caring enough. Yes, it is but a game. But these men are getting paid to play it — and sadly, these kinds of sentiments likely explain more about the Nationals’ woes than anything you’ll find in the nightly box score.