Other than the Washington Capitals no other team in Washington DC has had as good a chance to achieve the ultimate goal in their sport as consistently as the Nationals in recent years. The perpetual curse of the DC sports fan it seems is to make it most of the way up that mountain before crashing (as harshly as possible) back to reality. In the post-mortem for the most promising seasons it always seems that there was something eminently avoidable at the root of all the problems.

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I didn’t want to write this piece.

No one did.

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September baseball can be agonizing for many reasons, but mainly because it’s not October. It could be agonizing because your team is waiting on a mercy killing or (as is the case with the Nationals) because they are involved in the world’s slowest countdown – the countdown of the magic number.

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