Jersey of the Week: Nationals 100 Losses
Posted by: Richie Rich in Jersey of the Week, Nationals
I think it’s safe to say that the Washington Nationals are by far and away the worst franchise in baseball right now.
They’ve had a enormous uniform FAIL, no one watches them on TV or at their stadium, they can’t spell Roosevelt, and that stupid Screech the eagle mascot is just embarrassing.
Not to mention that the team can’t perform ON the field either, where the Nats are currently 15-40. That would put them on pace for a second consecutive 100-Loss season and flirt with a 120-Loss season.
On that note, their fans seem to be taking it in stride.
Here’s a Jersey some Nats fan (I think?) made before the 2008 season which looks like it will be good for years to come.
Simply awesome and well-played. Self-deprecating jerseys always rule.
The only way it could be better is if it said NATINALS across the front.
“Nationals Hundred Losses” Jersey Rating
- Cleverness: 9
- Originality: 9
- Understandability: 10
I think that’s the highest score since the bodypainted Phillies fan (NSFW).
Found the Jersey in a thread over on FARK.
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June 9th, 2009 at 8:58 am
LOL!! This cracks me up! Maybe it’s Washington tradition to be a losing team… something they can be proud of.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
“Maybe it’s Washington tradition to be a losing team”
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Well, save for the hanging-on-gamely wild-card effort of 2005, Washington last experienced significant September baseball in 1945 (losing the AL pennant to Detroit). Consider that when it happened:
* Harry Truman was a few months into his presidency.
* World War II had just officially ended.
* Frank Sinatra was still the skinny kid (yet to turn 30) with the bow-tie nicknamed “Frankie.” He recorded for Columbia, and all phonograph records were 78 rpm singles.
* Commercial television was in its experimental stages, having been suspended for the war effort.
* The University of Maryland was preparing for its football season under a newcomer, an Alabama alum making his debut as a head coach. His name? Paul “Bear” Bryant. (He spent one season in College Park, then left for the University of Kentucky.)
* The Beltway and Metro were still decades away.
* Washington-area native Goldie Hawn — better known to some of you younger folks as Kate Hudson’s mom — was in her mother’s womb (she would be born in November).
So you could say there’s been a drought. (Of course, for nearly half that period Washington didn’t even have a team to call its own, alas.)