It's 2009 and the Natinals suck ! They are the Bad News Bears. Defensively challenged. It's pathetic. They're so bad they once had players with the team name misspelled on their uniforms.
The team is actually a little better this year than last but they're still awful. MLB owned the team when they moved so they didnt have an owner or proper management so that's a bit of an excuse. Still this team is horrible. Worse is that they could have a good fan base if they had a good team. DC will support a good team. As it is now, you can get tickets easily. But the games feature a lot fans from the opposing team. DC has people from all over and they come out when their favorite team is in town. It's pretty bad when you go to a game and the opposing team's fans cheer louder than the home team. When the Phillies play in DC, it looks and sounds like a Phillies home game with all the red in the satdium. Add in to the suckeness is that the Natinals president went on the radio in Phila. and encouraged Phillies fans to come to DC for Opening Day this year to generate sell-out games and you get an idea of how lousy they are , on the field and off

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Will be a force in the National League so long as they get competent ownership in place. The pieces are in place for a great team - good fan base, new stadium, challenging division, decent talent to work with.

More like The Washington Generals.

Not a good team talent-wise but a very capable manager--Manny Acta.

My heart goes out to Natty fans nationwide.

The only thing Nats fans have going for them at this point is that their front office makes no pretense about their pending, and persistent inability to compete. GM Jim Bowden said of their failure to make any deals leading up to the 7/31 trade deadline this year: "We explored every possibility we could to help our club long term, and at the end of the day, we did nothing."

That upbeat soundbyte seems to sum up the Nats' strategy in recent years. Last year, they could have dealt Soriano for some legitimate, young talent, or a heap of cash, around which they might even build a franchise, but instead, they did nothing and ended up losing Soriano to free angency at the end of the year. This year, they could have dealt Dmitri Young, Chad Cordero, and a couple others to build for the future, but again opted, in Bowden's words, to do nothing.

If the entire Nationals front office were to combine efforts on a fantasy baseball team, I'm pretty sure they'd get their asses handed to them by even marginally informed mlb fans.

Same review as the Expos. Decent team, not gonna win consistently for another couple of years at least.

The lead they blew today is how low they've gone since starting out on a roll, but I still like this team( and I can't wait to see SF beat up on them and overtake the Padres).

Tough team, they look like they'll end up in Wild Card spot.

Let's see how good this team does this season after finding a real home in the nations capital. This team died in Montreal. But don't expect them to contend anytime soon.

not your year. too bad MLB had a firesale on your old team when they owned them, otherwise might've been an exciting inagural season

Better than the Braves

the pick up of vinny castia will be huge

Finally we got a team! They aren't gonna be called the Expos for long though, as alpepper mentioned. They'll probably change the name back to the Senators or Nationals, or maybe the Potomacs (as in Potomac River), Macs for short :-) . They also might change the team name to the Grays, as a tribute to the old Negro league baseball team that played in DC, the Homstead Grays..... Actually I would've liked Virginia to get the team, since the Commonwealth doesn't have any sports team of any kind, but oh well. Folks in Virginia can root for the new DC team, just like they do for the Redskins

they suck

Hallelujah!!! For decades the shear absurdity of the National Capital not having the National Pasttime prevailed, all because of the manipulative and Devious Peter The District is a suburb of Baltimore Angelos (Living proof of the economic and sociologic ills that occurs when a monopoly takes place.) Though my town (Norfolk, VA) was in the running for the Expos franchise, it was always going to be D.C. with the possible fallback of Northern Virginia. Of course, the Expos won't flush as a name. So what do we call them? I like the traditional Senators (although, the Texas Rangers hold rights to that name). There is the Nationals, which was used off and on in their history. Then there is the Statesmen used in their 19th century incarnation. Here are some trendier nicknames: Washington Filibusters, Washington Monuments, Washington Loopholes, Washington Pentagons, Washington Gangstas, and Washington Jam (as in traffic jam). Maybe they could be unconventional and use something like Beltway Busters, Capital City Captains, District Diamonds or Capital Cap Busters. Whatever they are named, Major League baseball's malevolent benefactor treatment of the Expos has left this franchise in disarray. 20 years from now, they may be called Washington Losers.

Whoa, it doesn't sound right. But if any team needs a clean slate and a fresh start, it's the Expos. Andre Dawson, where have you gone?