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Baseball Musings
November 30, 2005
Boswell on Foot Dragging

Thomas Boswell takes Major League Baseball to task for dragging it's feet on finding new owners for the Washington Nationals:

Hardly a day goes by that the Nats' hamstrung front office doesn't get whiplash from watching some NL East rival improve itself. Yesterday the Mets signed super southpaw reliever Billy Wagner away from the Phils. Last week, the Mets gobbled up Carlos Delgado from the Marlins. Last year, the Nats finished two games behind the Mets. Next year, Washington will need divine intervention to get within 10 games of New York.

And that's a baseball crime. Because if ownership had been in place on any decent timetable, the Nats would have been in position to greatly increase their budget for '06 and might have been in the hunt for almost any player in the game they desired.

He also points out that this protracted search is hurting the fan base:

The loss of Loaiza is just the latest of many indignities for Washington fans in the last year. All the goodwill that baseball -- the game -- has engendered in this area is constantly undermined by the ill will that is bred by baseball -- the business.

Posted by David Pinto at 08:48 AM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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I agree that they're being screwed, but if he's claiming the Nationals could outspend the Mets if they had new owners, he's being ridiculous.

Posted by: JC at November 30, 2005 11:57 AM

Weren't the Expos supposed to have had new ownership a couple of all-star games ago? Arlen Specter should quit whining about Terrel Owens and investigate this mess.

Posted by: rbj at November 30, 2005 04:22 PM

Its a little off topic but I really hope Loaiza's departure gives the oft injured Jon Rauch a shot at the rotation. He could have a similar break-thru year to John Patterson's.

Posted by: Jon at December 1, 2005 09:50 AM
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