Linton Weeks of the Washington Post thinks that the Nationals will be bad, no surprise, but he thinks they can be 2003 Tigers bad. And he thinks that if the Nationals don't win a World Series in the next five years, fans won't support them.
Personally, I don't see the fans in Washington being that impatient. Nor do I think the Nationals will lose 110 games, although they did lose tonight to Milwaukee to fall to 9-24, a .273 winning percentage.
The first AL Washington Senators team had its worst season in 1904 when it finished 38-113, a .252 percentage. The second AL Washington Senators had its worst season in 1963 at 56-106, a .346 percentage. The 1886 NL Washington entry stumbled across the finish line at 28-92, or .233. The current Nationals franchise had its worst year in its first year of existence in Montreal in 1969 at 52-110, .321.
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