Nationals Will Get Better But Will Their Fans Wait For Them?

Oh, those poor Washington Nationals; no team in the major leagues has lost more games in 2009. No team has committed more errors. No team has a higher ERA. No team has more blown saves. No team has both an interim general manager and manager. No team has fewer fans following them on television or radio. Only two other teams in the National League have drawn fewer fans to their home games, but they really don’t count. The Pirates and Marlins don’t seem to be trying very hard, after all. The Nationals’ fans—those that remain, anyway—look upon the team with a near deadly combination of both malaise and apathy. Fan sites such as ballparkguys.com, which used to have a dozen or more open threads about the team at any given time, now have just two or three on a good day. It’s even spread to Bleacher Report. I wrote my first story here in January, and it garnered more than 500 reads. One story about Steven Strasburg came close to 4,000. Today, it takes th...