The Road to 121 Losses
Tracking the Nats' historic chase of the ’62 Mets
Current Record: 24-35 (.406, 12 GB)
Projected Record: 66-96
Price of a Fat Cat Seat in the New Stadium: $400
Number of Such Seats Ray King Could Purchase If His Salary Doesn't Change and We Don't Account for Taxes or Any Other Expenses: 2,125, or 26 per game
Parsing the Win: Nats 6, Pittsburgh 5. A victory for rarely used verbs. Cristian Guzman scampered home on a wild pitch. Manny Acta announced Nook Logan would be platooning with Ryan Langerhans (who the second-greatest Nats blog calls "White Nook Logan"). Plus you have to imagine there was some glowering (often written, never spoken) going on in the Bucs' dugout.
Barry Svrluga Adjectives of the Day: "absurd," "scalding," "odd"
3:37 pm
Most importantly, Ray King would be able to drink all he wants if he bought one of those seats. Those seats will be right in front of the concourse, complete with luxe bars and food stands. It's heaven for "Ray King Kong," as Dmitri Young calls him.
4:28 pm
Especially since they're only serving twigs and berries in the clubhouse. If I was a player I'd totally drop $400 to sit up there and enjoy chicken fingers between at-bats.
5:02 pm
Twigs and berries? That's one homoerotic clubhouse.