Chicago Cubs Baseball

It doesn’t bother me the Chicago Cubs lost today. It only seems fitting that a team from our nation’s capitol, the Washington Nationals, would win today, on this the day of our country’s independence.

It only seems right. And just.

In fact, if I was commissioner of Major League Baseball the Nationals would start every season 1-0. A guaranteed victory on Independence Day no matter who they played or what impact it may have on the standings.

Of course, the team they played that day, including the Cubbies, would start the year 0-1. Merely a small sacrifice. The Nationals are our Capitol’s team. And baseball is America’s past time - behind the NFL, NASCAR and the WWE.

Besides, what’s one fixed win in the victory column? It’s not like commuting the sentence of a convicted felon or anything.

I see a fixed win as playing to the Nationals base - sparing the players’ families and friends the anguish of seeing their loved ones potentially doomed to another day of failure.

I would spin, er, call the Nationals Independence Day victory a “compassionate collaboration of Major League Baseball for the celebration and continued preservation of baseball in our nation’s Capitol.”

I would cite how the Nationals, through all the player changes and relocations, have dutifully served major league baseball - even when they played somewhere in Canada. And I would point to the Senators/Expos/Nationals records over the years as definitive proof of their loyalty to the game of baseball.

After that, who could argue the Nats weren’t worthy of a free pass? Maybe those fans on the opposing side of the aisle. But they don’t pay the Nationals salaries, so who cares.

As for fairness, the word and Washington D.C. don’t belong in the same sentence.

So that’s my proposal. The Nats get a free pass on Independence Day. That day they can wake up on third base and think they hit a triple.

And what better way to honor and celebrate our nation’s freedoms than fixing a win for a team from a town that needs nothing but fixing?

Ridiculous? Ludicrous?

Maybe so. Or maybe it’s just Bush League.