Spring fever has hit Boz hard

Tom Boswell seems to be ailing this year- his writing is suffering bigtime lately, with all sorts of incorrect and stupid statements. Check out this most excellent post from Capitol Punishment (my new fave Nats blog), which spells out the issues in detail. However, I was most disturbed by Boz's chat from today:

Section 419: Boz, I love you man, but you are dead wrong. I grew up in MoCo, was watching games on 33rd St since before I can remember LOVE Cal and Mickey T. That was a long time ago. I HATE THE ORIOLES. Go Nats Go. As far as I care, Mr. Angelos and all of Bmore can go jump off a cliff. O's fans will benefit from the colony like grip they have on the Nats TV contract for years to come. But what do you expect, DC does not have voting rights either, why should we have TV rights. Go Home O's.

Tom Boswell: Hey, hey, hey. Do I detect a "restless element?" Hmmmm, maybe trouble's a brewin' And it's not even my fault.

"It's not even my fault." Dumbass, who wrote the following inflammatory comment in today's column (hint: it wasn't me)?

If you try to find a Nats fan with a genuine visceral dislike for the Orioles, you may have an all-day job.

What planet is he on? I wish that was the most ignorant statement in the piece, but it wasn't:

Every rendition of the national anthem at a major Washington sports event still gets a burst from the crowd at, "Ohhhhhh, say does that star-spangled banner . . ." That happens nowhere else in America. And the "O" is for "Orioles."

Can Nats fans help it if clueless Baltimorons/O's fans are at the games, continuing to fuck up the anthem with their guttural "Ohhhhhhhhh?" I don't know where Boz is sitting at the games, but every time I'm there (and I went to over 20 of them last season), everyone shushed the Oh'ers when they dared to pull that bullshit. I mean, really. We're not in freakin' Baltimore. Bugs the crap out of me. Happens at Caps games too, and it's just as lame.

Anyway, it looks like Boswell is suffering from some sort of dementia- hope he gets out of it soon, since he was a good writer for the Nats last year- but this year? Not so much. I want to heart Tom Boswell again, but it doesn't look like it will happen again for a while, given the way he's writing these days.