BLS poll: Will Nats, Royals or 'other' win race to the bottom?

Let's forget for a minute that the Nationals are still playing .357 baseball, just lost one of their promising young arms to a major injury and have just under a week to come up with beacoup bucks to sign Stephen Strasburg. Yes, put all of those sad stories aside and break out your Curly Ws, because they've actually played themselves into this thing! By "thing", I'm talking, of course, about the oh-so-exciting race to not be the worst team in baseball. I know, I know ... please try to contain yourselves. For most of the season's first four months, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that not only would the Nationals be MLB's absolute pits, they might actually challenge the marks of the '62 Mets and '03 Tigers while doing so. But now they've won eight straight games heading into tonight's contest against Atlanta and they're no longer far and away the worst team in the league. Yahoo! Sports' own Tim Brown doesn't even rank t...