NATS (65-44) BETTER THAN GIANTS THREE DAYS AGO

 after achieving 
 rare six-nine plus four-twenty, 
 Gio starts again 

 the Nats Dionysian 
 destiny is sealed; they won 

NATS (61-44) WORSE THAN GIANTS 8 DAYS AGO

 baseball is magic 
 game of numbers, and magic 
 always shows itself 

 with loss, Gio's 6 and 9, 
 with 4.20 ERA 

NATS (58-42) WORSE THAN INDIANS 13 DAYS AGO

 Gio with strong start, 
 but the bullpen unravelled, 
 capped by Papelbon 

 he gave up 3 in the 9th; 
 Dusty is playing long con 

NATS (57-38) BETTER THAN DODGERS 19 DAYS AGO

 Ultimate Harper 
 with the first inning dinger 
 (dork phrase for "home run") 

 Gio Gonzalez winning 
 fills my heart with shining joy 

NATS (54-36) BETTER THAN METS YESTERDAY

 Gio Gonzalez 
 shaky perhaps, but held his 
 his together well 

 Daniel Murphy home run helps 
 destroy his former team's hopes 

NATS (50-35) WORSE THAN BREWERS SIX DAYS AGO

 another shitty 
 Gio Gonzalez start - this 
 has become common 

 and yet how can you not love 
 scruffy smiling Nat Gio? 

NATS (48-32) BETTER THAN REDS LAST NIGHT

 Gio still gave up 
 4 runs, but also offense 
 smashed back for 13 

 I love Gio Gonzalez; 
 he has Power of Lounge look 

NATS (43-27) WORSE THAN PADRES YESTERDAY

 holy fuck, Gio 
 Gonzalez got rocked again; 
 fuck it though, just June 

 some starting pitchers are bound 
 to ride through summer doldrums 

NATS (40-25) WORSE THAN CUBS SIX DAYS AGO

 Gio Gonzalez 
 looked shaky (in retrospect... 
 just googled that shit) 

 daily baseball blogging seems 
 like seventh level of hell 

NATS (33-22) WORSE THAN REDS THREE DAYS AGO

 tough game for Gio; 
 Dusty Baker returns to 
 place he burned bridges 

 if a boy fell onto field, 
 would they shoot Joey Votto? 

NATS (18-7) BETTER THAN ROYALS TONIGHT

 Edinson Volquez 
 (of flat brim fame) reunites 
 with Dusty Baker 

 Gio kept it scattered but 
 smothered, two-run 1st - Nats win 

NATS (12-4) BETTER THAN TWINS TONIGHT

 Gio Gonzalez 
 victories always feel good, 
 he's so lovable 

 sentimentality in 
 baseball fandom leads to fucked 

NATS RISE TO GLORY game forty-four

(the day before this start, Gio kicked it with

Little Leaguers - Gio's for the childrens)

When Gio is on, it is so fun to be excited about. He is, as they say, the best, the type of guy you hope grows to be an old, kooky fucker in your team's baseball uniform, like a Bartolo Colon. He Gio'd his way thru nearly 7 innings, giving up only a single run. Meanwhile, Bryce Harper got an RBI in the 4th to even back with that allowed run by Gio, then got another RBI in the 7th, plus scored a Ryan Zimmerman doubling right behind him, which put the game away at 4-1. The fact these fucked-up Nats are able to win so many low-scoring games is not lost on me - the casual fan with paranoid worries who expects the worst to eventually take over.

Nats were 26-18.

NATS RISE TO GLORY game thirty

On Friday night passed, the Nationals of Washington, District of Columbia, began a three-game weekend series with the Brave Warriors of Atlanta, Georgia, who have long been the standard-bearer of quality NL East standard, though current situation may be an aberration from that. And this has continued to be a season of wondering, "Will these Nats score a fuckin' run or not?" so of course they fell behind 2-0 early on, Gio Gonazalez being Gio out there (which is unpredictable, sometimes shaky, but all-in-all hard not to like). However in the 4th, they got one back. Then in 6th, TWO RUN BLAST by The Ultimate Harper gave the Nats the lead. Would it hold? Or would they fuck it up? Bear in mind, this was a team trying to reach .500 for only the second time this season, and the previous time initiated a 6-game losing streak.
Well, I'm glad to say it held. They added a cushion run in the 7th, and then in the 8th they blasted for 5 runs led off by a 3-run homer by The Ultimate Harper (giving him 5 HRs in his last two games at that point), and shit man they coasted through the top of the 9th to get back to .500. BACK TO FUCKING .500.
Nats were 15-15.

NATS RISE TO GLORY game twenty-five

Gio actually went 7 innings without giving up a run, looking like the ol' Gio of lovable yore. Bullpen didn't fuck up either, so one run from iron-poor offense (although through use of wooden bats) was all that was needed. Perhaps at some point this team will get to where they are scoring 8 runs and giving up none. Wouldn't that be nice?
Nats were 11-14.

NATS RISE TO GLORY game nineteen

Nats got four hits, scored two run. Caveman Jayson Werth is in third slot batting .191. Lead-off chump Denard Span is .240. No fucking offense happening, so you could have space pitchers who dominate multiple planets but no runs means fuck yo. Other end of dugout field positions was Marlines, who smashered 14 hits in Sunday matinee, with four runs to sweep Nationals series. Lead-off dude for Marlins went 4-for-5 yesterday, yet didn't get an RBI nor score a run. So he was going apeshit, and yet had nothing to do with any runs directly, although the psychological destruction of opposing pitchers and weakening their will to resist your offensive advances as a team could certainly be construed as a direction action, no? Gio got knocked up again, and the once indomitable and futuristically inspiraing One-Two tandem of Strasburg/Gio is looking lost a little. Not necessarily shot, but psyche's questioning things, existential crisis of sorts, which affects baseballers more than most other sports because baseballers be standing around a lot of time with too much thinking and shit going on. Long DC histories of lack of run support, lack of offense can damage pitching psyche - "Am I wasting my life? Is all this physical energy being expended for anything of substance? Is this all for just simple dollar bills in form of paycheck? What am I doing here?" Another hit, as man in red hat ponders these questions, another runner in scoring position, another early exit from that little cocaine bump of a pitcher's mound. Life is temporary but god losing streaks will feel like forever.
Nats are 7-12.

Curly W 18-9

Natty Gio came thru again

HRs galore (at least by Nats standards, where more than one = galore)

Philly crushage, and tomorrow there is possibility of a sweep

AND the Caps won

Curly W 13-4

did not see a ball game as it is west coast

& I masturbate and have my chamomile tea strictly at 10:15 nightly then go to bed

but apparently Gio was triumphant in his west coast return

and Nats scored 3 runs on 4 hits (how do you do that?)

and Wilson Ramos that loveable kidnappee scored 2 runs on 0 hits (how did he do that?)

tonight perhaps I will have some English breakfast tea instead at 10:15

a big warm cup, and perhaps listen to the baseballs audio thru my robot

Curly W 9-3

it is nearly impossible not to love

Gio Gonzalez

this pitching staff is not only good

but damn man

Gio & Edwin Jackson

are wacky motherfuckers

it is impossible not to feel good

w/ this fucked up team

Curly W 5-2

so b-lidge tried to fuck up a masterful performance

by el hijo del gigante and a perfect home opener

w/a shittastic top of the 9th (come back Drew Storen)

but Craig Stammen (his last name means "plant dick")

held it down and then my man Zimmy

(that's what we call him lovingly - "Zimmy")

scored the winning run on a wild pitch

despite going 0-for-4 on the day

this team has a something about them that just screams "wild card"

but also has injury prone stars and already injured role players

(what up Drew Storen & Michael Morse, see y'all in summertime)

that also screams "maybe next year" at the exact same time

anyways, at least we are screaming and not just sucking