See, THIS is why

For the love of crap...this is why Redskins fans drive me nuts. To be fair, any fan who is this crazed drives me up a wall, not just Skins fans. I wasn't aware you could practically predict the entire season based off of one scrimmage? Wow. And the season hasn't even started yet! Aren't we in for a treat!

Virginia Beach, Va.: Ok, Mike, how bad is the 'Skins offense looking this year? I was worried about the D-Line last year at this time, and figured Joe would have the O figured out by the start of the season (though the Brunnell thing struck me as bizarre; Ramsey should be very good in Joe's scheme, I thought). By the reports in the Post, the D was ok in the skrimmage, overall, but the O.... well, "picking up where they fell down last year" comes to mind from the description....

Michael Wilbon: Excuse me...did I miss a game? A regular season game? You want to somebody to judge an offense "this year" six weeks before we've arrived at "this year." Please. It was a scrimmage. Not even coaches make declarations after scrimmages...

The old man (hereafter known as Fred) and I went to RFK on Saturday afternoon to give blood in order to get the free Nats tickets and T-shirt. That is, we attempted to give blood; he wasn't eligible since he was a veteran and I was too far down the list. They were moving really slowly...after an hour and fifteen minutes they were only on #20 and there were over 140 people there. So much for that idea. We did get to see The Chief, though; I could have easily approached him to ask a question but I couldn't think of anything until after he left. Stupid lost chance. Too bad it wasn't Majewski; my source at the Houston P.D. gave me the lowdown on his dad so I would have had something to ask him about besides baseball (you know they must answer the same questions over and over and over again). It's fun to catch them a little off-guard, like when I mentioned to Joe Reekie at the Caps' ice-breaking ceremony that it looked like he'd been playing a lot of golf lately. The surprised look on his face was hysterical, though I don't know why he was so surprised that I figured it out. He's a super-tan retired hockey player whose hockey analyst job was on hiatus; what else would he be doing with his time?

Anyway, while the Nats really did have a lousy weekend, Wilbon explains yet again that they're not doing that badly. Coming from someone who I wouldn't exactly characterize as an optimist, not to mention that he's a Cub fan, this is pretty good:

Washington, D.C.: It looks like the Nationals are going off the cliff. How do you see the season ending for them?

Michael Wilbon: Even though the Nationals have dropped tremendously, I feel that because they are right in most of these games, losing by one run so many nights, that they can still contend for the wild card...They're only one game behind Houston, remember...or is it two games? Either way, while they can't hit, they can still hang in there for awhile longer...or so I think...
-----------------------
GO NATS!