I'm not superstitious. There are no "baseball gods." But if there were baseball gods, this would have been a sure sign that the Washington Nationals were going to lose their favor.
Ironically, Max Scherzer and Bryce Harper (the guys in the picture) both had spectacular seasons. Unfortunately, nobody else did.
I haven't said much about the Nationals this year. It was an eventful summer for the Janaros. We didn't even get to go to an actual game, though we tuned in to all or part of most of them on television during the season.
I also haven't said much because I've decided that if I can't say anything nice about my team, then I won't say anything at all.
<crickets>
Haha, but really, the baseball season is a strange thing. In April you think that this a great team "on paper." But things don't play out as expected on the field. You start out slow. There are some injuries. You hang around first place, then lose some key games in August, another team gets hot while you stay lukewarm and then... it's the end of September.
The Mets deserve credit along with several other surprise winners heading to the playoffs.
For us it has been a long, melancholy season.
But it won't stop us from coming back fresh and full of dreams next Spring.
