Makes You Want to Holler
... And throw up both your hands.
Actual email subject line of the latest Nationals.com email to show up in BallWonk's inbox:
Nationals Insider: Acta, Bowden stay the course
"Stay the course"?! BallWonk predicts that come the trading deadine, P.T. Bowden will be telling Nationals Insider that he's "doubling down" on The Plan. Also, he'll be starting every sentence with, "Look, ..."
In other acts of self-parody, Nationals Insider reported,
Thursday night, Jason Bergmann took advantage of his opportunity. The right-hander had his best outing of the season as the Nats defeated the Braves 2-0.
Guy's only had two outings. Which, technically, makes Thursday night "his better outing of the season." Takes three of a thing for one to be a "best." Unless Nationals Insider is looking at that copy of the 2050 Baseball Encyclopedia that's floating around, and they read that Bergmann will ne'er again pitch so well as he did last night. In which case, BW warns Nationals Insider that the BallWonk opposition research team is pretty sure the book is a forgery. You can tell by how the stats pages use a font that won't even be invented until the late 2070s. Touchable ink hyperlinking in a book purporting to be published in 2050? Puh-leez.
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Ballwonk, every time you disappear for a few days, it makes me nervous that you're going to leave us again! Without your words of wisdom, I don't know who to congratulate for victories, or what's happening in Chad's mind when he watches anoter save opportunity fly out of the park for a home run. Come back!