Nats skim and sign old players?

http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSTRE5202G320090301

What the hell is going on here? General manager possibly taking money and players lying about their age. Then Bowden resigns. Well if the major league club is this bad I can't imagine the other shit that goes on. Here is Esmailyn Gonzalez or Carlos Daniel Alvarez Lugo. Oh and he is 23..

Millions of tax payers dollars wasted for this?

2009 Nationals attendance:
Rank 28
Total 160,223
Average 20,027

This is not looking good for a team with a brand new stadium, horrible statues, cheap billionaire ownership, criminals posing as players and a stadium that caters to the rich. Way to go MLB.

Dimitri Young

This is Mr. Young's wikipedia page. Again the Nationals are a zoo.

In 2006, Young went through a divorce, was treated for alcohol and substance abuse, and depression. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a young woman after an argument in Birmingham, Michigan.[3]
On May 17, 2006, the Detroit Free Press reported that Young faced a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, stemming from a heated argument with a young woman.[4] Young subsequently spent 30 days in the rehabilitation facility, Promises Malibu, and three weeks working out with minor league teams. On June 13, 2006, Young failed to appear for a pretrial hearing on this matter and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.[5]. Ten days later, he pleaded no contest to the domestic violence charges.
On June 30, 2006, Young revealed that he had been battling alcoholism[6], which limited his physical fitness and kept him from appearing in all but a small fraction of Tigers games during the season. He made a statement to the press in which he asserted that he had been making progress overcoming it with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, whose logo has been tattooed on his hand as a gesture of thanks. He returned to action on July 21, 2006, versus the Oakland Athletics, starting at designated hitter and ending the game with 2 hits and 2 RBI in the Tigers' 7-4 win. Before the game started, FSN Detroit aired a video of Young apologizing to the fans and saying how he will continue to struggle against alcohol and drugs for the rest of his life.
On September 6, 2006, with less than a month to go in their American League Championship season, the Tigers gave Young his unconditional release in a move that surprised both teammates and fans alike.
The day after Thanksgiving, "an ambulance took him to a hospital, where he endured a three-day stay in the intensive care unit as his doctors diagnosed diabetes."[3] Since then, Young has taken steps to get his diabetes in control and is encouraging others to do so. He has recently appeared on dLife to talk to people about how he has lived with diabetes

The Nationals are the ugly girl at the end of the night

When it seems it can't get much worse lets go through an old article from before spring training.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/139816-julian-tavarez-explains-why-he-signed-with-the-nationals

When Julian Tavarez is calling you the 600 pounder at a club you know there is trouble! Tavarez has more craters than the moon.

Mrs. Tabata pulls a Raising Arizona

Living in central Florida is tough enough. We have teachers molesting kids every other day, the best meth in the country and now it seems the one good thing we have (baseball) is crossing into our craziness. I watched the news as they reported on a woman stealing a child from an unsuspecting family. At that time we just thought it was another case of Polk County being Polk County. Then we find out the suspect is the wife of a baseball player. Well here's the article...

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/09086/958778-100.stm

This is Jose Tabata

Now this is really not his fault but worth talking about anyway.

Scott Olsen a true American athlete

So a little late to the dance but as a former athlete, one of the hardest things to do is give everything you have and to fail. Even worse then that is watching a player in a position you dreamed of being in, throwing away a gift that you would die to receive. This is Scott Olsen. He pitches for the Washington Nationals. Recently we were given the goods on a couple nasty habits he has. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303647_pf.html


Now for your viewing pleasure Scott's DUI photo

Mr. Olsen has the tools to be a productive player but it sucks to know that some people just don't know what they have.

Nationals erect the most atrocious statues baseball has ever seen

Only the worst franchise in baseball could have paid for this crap and kept a straight face. The question is how much did these cost? What the fuck were they thinking? Even their statues are embarrassing. Well the statues cost the D.C. taxpayers a cool $700,000! Yikes! Well at least fans are going to see games....... Holy shit they aren't?

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Nationals-unveil-freakishly-cool-statues-outside?urn=mlb,154752

Hello

First post! Does anyone ever talk about baseball so much that their baseball friends don't want to hear any more? Well I do. Unlike most baseball blogs I will cover every team but not day to day. Just random snipits here and there. Mostly about the things that annoy me, players that annoy me, and organizations that are dumber then dirt. Along the way we'll go over stats, rumors and anything that tickles me just right. So let's get started.