Mortal Enemy

A wise man once said, “It is better to be thought and idiot than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” Jon Heyman must have never heard this quote. Time and time again when it comes to the Nationals he removes all doubt. He takes every opportunity he gets to put them down. He is the Barbra Mandrel of hating the Nationals. He hated them last year before all the predication of swarms of locust and rivers of blood. Jon Heyman even went so far as to call the capital of the free world a small market. Yes, the most valuable football franchise in the United States plays in a small market. Jon Heyman’s latest tirade against the Nationals is more idiotic than anything before. In the last paragraph he says when talking of the trade deadline:

That's nice. But of course, they don't have all that many players that playoff contenders will want. The one player they must trade is closer Chad Cordero, who could bring in a haul. A closer it not really the last thing a team this bad needs. But as with Alfonso Soriano last summer, whom the Nats ended up holding onto after the trade deadline, there's always the danger they'll expect too much in return for Cordero and wind up doing nothing.

This is almost too easy to dissect. Last year the Nationals traded Royce Clayton, Gary Majewski, Bill Bray, Brendan Harris, Marlon Anderson, Mike Stanton, Livan Hernandez, and Daryl Ward. This year they have the same number of spar parts. There are certain things teams are always looking for at the deadline, relievers and a bat off the bench. The Nationals have relievers and bats that could come off a contender’s bench. Belliard already was traded at the deadline once to help a team win the World Series. Why can’t it happen again? Dmitri Young has been hot with the bat and not terrible with the glove. He will be traded when Nick Johnson comes back. The Nationals bullpen is full of relievers. They have Jesus Colome, Micha Bowie, Jon Rauch, Ryan Wagner, Saul Rivera, and Chad Cordero who can be shut down relievers, and don’t forget Luis Ayala is coming off the DL sometime this season. A team needs to make a game a six inning game not a three inning game.
Jon Heyman then points out that the Nationals must trade Cordero. Why must they trade Cordero? He is young, good, and under contract. This isn’t the same as the Soriano situation. Soriano was a free agent after the season and was having a career year. The Nationals might not need a closer much this year, but what about the next year or the year after that, and unless a team does blow you away why trade a popular good young player. The best offer for Soriano was a low class A pitcher. The same thing the Nationals got for Marlon Anderson. I don’t know if Jon Heyman realizes this, but 2>1. The two draft picks the Nationals got will yield players not far behind a low class A player, and that doubles the chances of one of them turning out to be good.
The stupidity of Jon Heyman is far reaching. He doesn’t understand the term “under contract” or the fact that 2>1. He won’t let facts get in his way of hating the Nationals. I doubt he ever mentions the positives of the Nationals young pitching staff coming around and doing better than experts like him expected.