Comments on: The Wall Street Journal, Obama, and Now the Onion Use Nats for Punchline http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/the-wall-street-journal-obama-and-now-the-onion-use-nats-for-punchline/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: TomHandy http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/the-wall-street-journal-obama-and-now-the-onion-use-nats-for-punchline/comment-page-1/#comment-630789 TomHandy Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:54:50 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27298#comment-630789 When you are by far the worst team in baseball, you get to be the punchline in jokes (although I honestly think Obama's remark was less a joke than pretty much a simple acknowledgement of truth - although I probably could have lumped in a couple other franchise like the Pirates too in terms of teams whose fans obviously know they have no shot). If the Nats don't like it, they can stop dicking around and try and become a better team (and no, firing Manny Acta doesn't solve jack). When you are by far the worst team in baseball, you get to be the punchline in jokes (although I honestly think Obama's remark was less a joke than pretty much a simple acknowledgement of truth - although I probably could have lumped in a couple other franchise like the Pirates too in terms of teams whose fans obviously know they have no shot).

If the Nats don't like it, they can stop dicking around and try and become a better team (and no, firing Manny Acta doesn't solve jack).

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