After watching another big Nats wins last night, I wanted to relive how far we've come from the hell hole we used to be in. So, I went digging this morning for the intro from Strasburg's first start but I guess the video is no longer on Youtube. Here is one from a few weeks earlier. Fun memories; Awful jerseys, Livan Hernandez was our ace, Zimmerman hitting like 2016 Daniel Murphy, Guzman, Pudge in the heart of the order, Bernadina, Dunn, Willingham, and an intro video that heavily features John Lannan and Nyjer Morgan.
I was as much a hopeless optimist back then as I am today but looking back I have no idea what objective evidence even I could have used to prove "In two years this team will win 98 games". What trash at so many positions. The fact that team start 25-20 and then stuck around .500 for a while before collapsing is pretty impressive.