Now, back stateside, I’m stationed in MD, near DC, and I have a problem….there is an epidemic spreading…it has been dubbed, “Nat’s Fever.” People are starting to actually ROOT for the Nats around here, and when I point out how much they suck, they tell me that “they’re young, they’ll beat the Phillies next year.”  Its becoming so bad, in downtown DC, you see drug dealers wearing Adam Dunn and Steven Strasburg jerseys….<insert arbitrary steroid joke here>.  WHAT CAN I DO?

Oh and keep up the good work….seriously being able to log onto a computer and seeing a blog post from you guys when I was deployed, it was the high point of every day, even when the Phils lost.

– Air Force Patrick

AFP,

I put in a quick call to the CDC to get the rundown on this “Nat’s Fever,” and by the horrified screams on the other end of the phone, I think it is only fair to assume that our nation’s capital has been lost, and we might as well elect a new president before the country descends into a Mad Max-style apocalypse, where mothers and babies are run over with motorcycles hourly.

I think its great that Nationals fans have accepted their team as a team.  I hope the Nats wrap themselves in the warm blanket of love being offered to them, because it certainly wasn’t there before, when they were the Expos.  In fact, nobody was there.  Who was showing up for Expos games by the end of their tenure?  Sex addicts rendezvousing through craigslist ads?  Lost dogs?  Children being punished?

However, I would instruct Nationals fans to just hang on a second there.  You can burrow inside that Strasburg jersey all you want, its not going to make that Tommy John surgery any less graphic.

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