What Not to Do

Note TO self FROM self:

Never, ever again get so excited because your baseball team gets off to a dynamite start at the beginning of the season. As soon as you start having those crazy hopes and dreams (not to mention writing about those crazy hopes and dreams), everything goes to damn Hell. Your team's hitting and pitching begins to fall apart. Only five players out of the entire roster haven't let you down so far: Nick Johnson, John Lannan, Odalis Perez, Lastings Milledge, and Cristian Guzman.

Lannan and Perez have been solid starting pitchers. When your team's starting pitching allows only the 2 or 3 runs per game that those two have, your team should win. But since everyone on the Nationals apparently forgot how to hit (excluding Johnson, Milledge, and Guzman of course) they haven't been able to break an 8 game losing streak that will probably continue today when John Smoltz tears the Nationals a new one.

Now you look like a stupid asshole for getting all excited before. From now on, you, be reticent of fortunes that any wins the Nationals get will foretell. If they win anymore games this season, as it were...