Jim Bowden is George Costanza

No big surprise that I have not blogged about the Nats lately. Really do we need my take on the suck factor or who to fire first? Ok I guess we do. After a sweep of the Mariners I am not going to talk about how this is the beginning of better times, but I will give the Nats their due - they sucked less than the Mariners. Really, the Nats got lucky. Casto in to pinch hit?! Excuse me while I check the Deadliest Catch marathon, maybe the fisherman taught a crab how to smoke cigarettes. Actually I watched his at bat or should say watched to see if they walked him, which typically is all you can hope for with Casto's numbers. Casto gave us a great Father's Day, though, his 2 run homer (his first), went off the right field upright into fair territory. Despite boos from the fans the umps conferenced and decided the run stands. Casto's father would later trade two hats for the ball, not bad, not bad at all. So what though, the Nats still suck, and there really is not much to look forward to.

Zimmerman maybe done for the season, and even if he isn't, he is not the kind of hitter who can be productive without some protection in the line up, as we have seen in the past. Milledge and Dukes are not stepping up enough to do much to help. Sure, they can find ways to hit, but not ways to help the team win. Oh, and don't get me started on the pitching - even if they are trying. Bottom line, its a mess out there, and when things get messy where do you go? You go up, because the problem is across the whole team. Do you goto the hitting coach? Maybe, but looking at the hitting last year and this year its hard to wrap your head around what might be going on with the Nats bats. Even if our hitting coach is focusing on the wrong things, with our nucleus on the DL and things still sucking on the grand scale, my eyes turn to GM Jim Bowden.

Jim Bowden should be fired, he blew it in the previous years and put the team in this position. I know - he is building our farm system and we have good prospects. There was nothing masterful in what he has done with the farm system that another GM could not accomplish. Good prospects do not change the fact that he has blown most of our decent trade opportunities. Soriano? Come on, under what circumstances was he going to stay past the season. More importantly if he stayed do you see him playing his heart out for this team while Jim Bowden attempts to do the job he was paid? Sorry folks, Soriano was a missed opportunity, I would have traded those hits and wins back then for some depth today.

Cordero was the second missed opportunity. Yeah he played well, but what do we need a closer for anyway? We ain't contenders, we have holes in our lineup you can drive the Old Town Trolley through, and look at him now - fat and injured. Now we are stuck with him. But what about the farm system? What about it?! Casto, Nieves, Boone? They are OK and have some nice heroics - but really very little to offer in this time of suckiness other than a few bright spots in a bad record. Long story short, Bowden has done nothing to help the Nationals weather the current storm. Bowden missed the opportunities he was given, probably because he went to the Costanza school of professional productivity and took too many naps under his desk.

Sorry folks, DC paid for the stadium, so the Lerners have the money (would have more if there was a name on the stadium too), if Jim Bowden cannot get them to spend some of it or even if he cannot figure out how to spend it, the man is the most worthless piece of the entire Nationals organization. Why should we shell out over priced tickets to see a minor league team play exhibition games with the NL? Because Jim Bowden wants to build the farm system, thats why. Sssshhh, Jimmy is napping and cannot be bothered to deal with the suckage.

Maybe screech should go on a hunger strike until Bowden gets fired. Someone name one thing Jim Bowden has done for this team that some other average GM could not have accomplished?