Could the Nationals actually be splashing some cash? Outlets were reporting earlier this week that the Nats made an offer to big-ticket free agent Mark Teixeira in the range of eight years and $160 million. By the numbers, a move for the switch-hitting first baseman makes sense — especially since the Yankees seem to be grabbing any available big-money pitcher from here to Mars. Offensively, the 2008 Nationals were at or near the bottom of…

I was worried that the low number of comments on my Nationals posts spoke to their quality. Fortunately, the problem is that no one cares about the team or chooses to watch them on television. The Nationals are last in the league in television viewership with an average of 9,000 households per game. The next lowest team, Kansas City, has an average television audience of 28,000 households. It is really a staggering statistic. It is…