Why everyone on the Nationals deserves to be fired
Absolutely insulting comments in today's Post. If I didn't have other people in my season-ticket package, I'd cancel the damn thing right now. The commenters on the story are similarly fired up over these quotes. Are these guys kidding us? Are they really okay being the biggest losers in baseball? Do they really think the fans are holding them back? The hell with all of them. The apologies better come fast and furious. This is disgusting. We should blast air horns outside their houses until they lose some damn sleep. Losers, every one of them.
Before the game, down in their clubhouse, the Nats did their usual ballplayer things, dressing and watching TV and kibitzing. Willie Harris, a utility player, sang along with Michael Jackson and 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."
He turned to Zimmerman and said, "Hey, Zim, do you get bummed out if we lose?"
Not after he leaves the ballpark, the third baseman replied.
Sitting at his locker, 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."
Somebody doesn't care, Joe. I don't think it's the fans. How this team can find so many ways to break our hearts, I just don't know.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:58 PM
FIRED UP.
This is incredibly lame. I'm going to see Teddy and the Cubs tomorrow. I'll boo the rest of 'em for you.
July 19th, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Thank you! Let Teddy be an example to the rest of them. He can barely keep his eyes open during the day. All he wants is to win and to sleep.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:23 AM
I feel your pain. Going on Year 7 of being a Cubs fan and I've always felt this is the essence of their locker-room convo while my heart pumps out its final drops of red, white and blue. Boo!
July 20th, 2009 at 7:27 AM
Congrats on winning 4 of 4, though. Maybe we could give you half our roster, and you could give us Soriano back? He seems to like it more here.
July 20th, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Just remember… The Florida Marlins have been around only 16 years, yet have won two more World Series titles than the Cubs have in the last 100 years. There is hope Nats fans (this from a die hard Cub fan).