The Washington Nationals: terrorist organization?

For those who may not know, they are the worst team in Major League Baseball...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...1302371_2.html

Terrorist Nats?

The long Washington Nationals season is finally crawling to a close. The chronic basement dwellers have outdone their prior haplessness and are on pace to lose 106 games, which would make them the second-worst Washington team in a century. (Thank goodness the Mets lost 120 games in 1962.)

Now it seems that being a Nats fan -- and wearing one of those green Nationals hats -- not only can be embarrassing but can even get you in a heap of trouble.

Take what happened when Tyler Allard, legislative assistant to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), wore the cap as he returned from a trip last month to Jordan and Israel. An Israeli airport security guard pointed to the hat with the curly W team logo and demanded with a tone of disgust, "Why do you wear that?"

"Good question," his father, former longtime Senate aide Nick Allard, replied. "They are hopeless. They desperately need relief. You never know when they will hit, and because their defense is so bad, they suffer more than they can dish out. It's not rational and I can't explain why, but we are loyal and we love them." The more he talked, the more upset the security folks became, Nick Allard reports. Their luggage was checked and rechecked, and they were quizzed by security.

When they were finally cleared to board, Allard wrote in an e-mail, the head of the security detail said: "We do not appreciate your Hamas headgear." Green apparently is a Palestinian "color," Allard speculated, and the vaguely Arabic Nats logo might have been mistaken for an extremist emblem.

"What the Nats have done this season is almost unforgivable," Allard notes, "but they are a long way from being mistaken for an organization capable of terrorizing the eastern division much less the Middle East. It's tough being a Nats fan. Home or away."

Soo... what this tells me is that someone didn't do their homework properly.

-tg

Guess I won't be going to Israel on St. Pat's day.

Meanwhile, here in St. Louis - the Cardinals continue to kick derriere. :D

The hat in question:

http://www.individualsole.com/wp-con...ationals-2.JPG

As far as MLB is concerned... anybody but the Yankees or Red Sox.

Anybody.

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Originally Posted by homer13j

For those who may not know, they are the worst team in Major League Baseball...

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I'm no expert in MLB but I wasn't really aware that they existed. I went to a handful of Dodger games growing up since I lived about 6 miles from Dodger Stadium. I know the Dodgers are doing rather well this year. I now live about 160 miles from Dodger Stadium.

I live 8763 km from Dodgers Stadium, that's more than 160 miles.

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Originally Posted by EntityX

I'm no expert in MLB but I wasn't really aware that they existed.

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Until 2005 they were known as the Montreal Expos. They moved to DC because Montreal wasn't really aware they existed.

the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I didn't think the Expos moved. I thought they we dissolved completely.

-tg