"I'm just so proud of these guys. ... It's a beautiful situation. It's got the potential to be a beautiful situation, I should say. Because the players want it, the fans want it. I think we're getting closer." (Jim Riggleman, via Washington Times/Chatter, 9/24/2009)
"We've got a chance to be really good. If you lose 100 games, you have to make a jump the next year, right?" (Mike MacDougal, via Nationals Journal, 9/25/2009)
Sadly, that's what we thought last year, too, Mike.
Smile, NatsTown: it can't get any worse!
100 isn't the loneliest number: '09 Nats Join Century Club.
Dodgers 7, Nats 6: Martin digs a hole, Nats climb out. Villone kicks 'em back down. Pete Orr unable to save the Nats from #100 two nights in a row.
Give 'em credit: at least they put up a fight last night before finally succumbing to the inevitable number.
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