O'Dowd may be complacent, but Bowden is just bizarre (why do the Nats need to have locked up Nick Johnson and Dmitri Young, Ronnie Belliard and Felipe Lopez, and any number of extra mediocre outfielders, so I'm not optimistic about the young talent just yet outside Zim and Milledge.
I can understand why the Rockies wouldn't re-sign Josh Fogg; I am baffled as to why the Nationals wouldn't want him, and would then cut John Patterson, given the "talent" they have.
They have a similarly strange "Wall of Fame" in RFK with some random folks on it. As ever, there's this tension with all things DC about should it embrace its own culture (richly African-American) or be a mirror of the nation (meaning what?). I think they opted for the latter with Nationals Park, but it's not mirroring much at the moment. We shall see...
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