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The Nats returned to their winning ways yesterday! Jose Vidro went from goat to hero with his walk-off two run single in the bottom of the 9th. Nats win, 7-6.

What's troubling is that Chad Cordero blew his fourth save in 28 chances by giving up an upper deck homer to former National Preston Wilson. Does anyone else here hold his/her breath when Cordero comes in? The guy has a tendency to blow saves in a big way both last year and this year. Who could forget the Khalil Greene grand slam incident of last summer that ended The Impossible Dream? In fact, Cordero's save conversion stats mask the high number of narrow escapes that he creates for himself by putting runners in scoring position late in the game. I like Cordero, but he's far from the "automatic" closer that he will hopefully become in a few years.

Enough of all this Cardinals stuff! The Nats are headed to Denver to square off with the Rockies. It's time for another exciting edition of 5 Questions! This time I exchanged pleasantries with Rox Girl of Purple Row. You can read my answers to her questions about the Nats at this link.

Curly W: The Nationals, to me, seem similar to the original Rockies expansion team in that they were a new team in a die-hard football town. Were you in Colorado when the Rockies came to town? How long did it take for the Denver area to fully embrace the team?

Rox Girl: It depends on what you mean by fully embrace. Colorado sports fans were eager and waiting a long time for major league baseball, and the franchise broke many attendance records in its first years despite only making one playoff appearance. The Denver market is discrimintating in its sporting taste, however, and when the Rockies failed to continue to build on that initial success, the base drifted and attendance at the games steadily eroded until this season. The Broncos remain popular because they are regularly in the playoffs, regularly competing for a Super Bowl, and sometimes winning it all. The Avalanche have tasted similar success and regularly sell out their games and the Nuggets seem to be turning around
their fortunes as well. In that sense, I really don't think the market has fully embraced the Rockies, they typically get second sport status in the newspapers, even during the summer months when the Broncos are only in training camp.

Curly W: In your opinion, is the altitude at Coors Field really as much of an issue as the media makes it out to be? It seems like there were inflated scores and ERAs for the first few years but everyone in the league seems to have adjusted.

Rox Girl: Yes, the altitude is and always will be an issue. The fabled humidor
seems to have countered the effects for the most part, but if you look at
scores from Colorado Springs (our AAA club) you can see what would happen if
we reverted to Coors Dry.

Curly W: Many of us Nats fans are still bitter that Jim Bowden let Jamey Carroll leave for Denver. How do you feel about Jamey Carroll? Is he likely to be back with the Rockies next year?

Rox Girl: I'd be bitter too, Jamey's a player. Really, why would anybody want to get rid of him? I mean, you've seen how hard he goes. Every play it's amazing. Really. I would be listening to Carpenters albums everyday for like six months if my GM had discarded him. So callously, too, as if Jamey was just some other scrub player. I mean, if Dan O' Dowd did something like that, I would question my existence, maybe read Camus or something and join a nunnery.

As for the second part of your question, believe it or not, Carroll's primary competition for 2007 appears to be Kaz Matsui. Yes, that Kaz Matsui. Only maybe not, because this Kaz Matsui is hitting like .400 for us.

Curly W: We're looking forward to our new stadium in DC in 2008. What's your favorite thing about Coors Field? Least favorite?

Rox Girl: My favorite thing about Coors Field... well, besides watching the Rockies win, which is the obvious answer, I love the lifestyle. What? Yeah, going to Coors has to be a whole evening. You've got to go to the game and then you get to party afterwards in LoDo around the brickyard. The stadium seems to fit right in with the very happening nightlife down there. It's really quite marvellously designed, the seats flow seamlessly into the concourses which flow seamlessly into the exterior and the surrounding neighborhood.

My least favorite thing is that because Denver went so long with a baseball team of its own, several other prominent teams have very large fanbases that come in and make the place look like Busch or Wrigley West. Long lines for the bathrooms are also a drawback, but I heard boys have it easier and the lines aren't nearly as bad as they are in Invesco.

Curly W: Are Rocky Mountain Oysters on the menu at Coors Field? If not, do you wish they were?

Rox Girl: I grew up in the Northwest part of the state and there were a lot of sheep ranchers that were friends of mine, yet despite all of that, I only knew one person who actually ate that particular part. Or parts, however you like to think of uhm.. them. Anyway, turns out he was a nationally ranked cowboy on my high school rodeo team. Yes. You heard that part right, too.
Rox Girl is such a hayseed. Anyway, as far as Coors Field and that particular delicacy, I thought I heard once that you could, but I don't know for sure if that's true. I have gotten a good review of the version served by local Denver restaurant, The Fort, for any of you thinking of making avisit.

I'll say that again: Bah. Humbug. Feh.

So, I've been "tagged" with one of these "blogger's games" that have been circulating in the blogosphere recently. And this is what it took to get me to post to my blog again: Bill Simmons-lite, courtesy of my buddy DLee at Red & Black Hockey. Well, DLee, I hope you're not expecting much.

That goes for the rest of you, too.

1. Have you ever been in a fantasy league?
I can't think of anything that has ruined the pure joy of sports spectating more than fucking fantasy sports, which IMO reduces the team sports tradition to the collection and pursuit of individual performances (which, by definition, team sports are not).

I am a Broncos fan, dammit. And a 'Canes fan. I follow the guys who play for my teams. I can't get all humpy about payers who play on other teams. That, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of being a fan.

And don't tell me tragic figures like Terrell Owens aren't the direct result of the fantasization of the NFL. His (and others' like him) appalling lack of loyalty to his team(s) is clearly a result of an overfueled ego concerned only with personal statistics.

But maybe that's just me.

I did do a fantasy hockey sort of thing the last two seasons where I (and everyone else) assembled "teams" from the same lists of players. The idea was to pick a "team" of players from the lists at each position that accumulate the most "points" each week. But at some point in the middle of last season, and completely without warning or explanation, NHL (which runs the game) changed their scoring method, and my "team" dropped from second to fourth in my "league," effectively ending my season and completely snuffing out what little interest I had in the game to begin with. I won't be doing it next year.

Everything else I have done is team-based, i.e., I pick the teams I think are going to win from week to week. And, for the most part, I'm pretty good at that.

2. What was the first sports jersey you ever owned?
Patrick Roy, Colorado Avalanche, 1996. When the Avs traded for him, I just knew we'd win the Cup that year. And we did. I also own a Peter Forsberg Avalanche sweater, a Terrell Davis Broncos jersey, and a St. Lawrence University Skating Saints sweater. That's all the jerseys I own (though I appropriated my wife, Beth's, Brind'Amour sweater for the second half of the season last year).

3. Top 5 sports books?
I don't recall ever having read a single sports book, cover to cover, ever. And I can't think of anything that would be less interesting to read, except maybe business books.

Now, I've read a few of those (had to in order to get the MBA), and boy do they suck.

4. 10 favorite Athletes?
1) Lance Armstrong. If losing a testicle to cancer is cheating, than this guy's the biggest cheater in the history of the cheatingest sport ever. I prefer to think he's just superhuman. (And, yes, I realize he's a bit of a dick, but this isn't "10 athletes you want over to your house to watch the Super Bowl with you." It's a list of my 10 favorite athletes. And this bastard beat cancer, then went on to win the toughest race in arguably the toughest professional sport, from a field of 180 similarly-conditioned [should I have put quotes around "similarly-conditioned"?] athletes, seven years in a row. I am convinced nothing like that will happen again in my lifetime. That's why he's on this list which, may I remind you, is my list. If you don't like it, write your own fucking list.)

2) Patrick Roy. If for no other reason than I have his sweater, and so many other people loathe him. His career, to me, stands for itself. And, while he may be a whackjob, he's an adorable whackjob.

3) & 4) Terrell Davis / Rod Smith. Two of the greatest team players in the history of the Denver Broncos. Now, these guys can come over to my house and watch the Super Bowl. And babysit my kid, too, if they want.

5) Tiger Woods. The only golfer I've ever wanted to watch play on television. Ever.

6) Erik Cole. Even though he went to Clarkson, breaking his neck and coming back to play in the Stanley Cup Finals three months later is either inspiring or completely psychotic. And when he's healthy, he plays with a reckless determination that's almost spellbinding in its deliberateness. Kid's a genius.

7) Joe Sakic. The guy allegedly gives away half of his salary every year to various charities. Now that's a guy who gets his priorities straight. He can babysit my kid, too, if he wants.

8) Floyd Landis. He was framed. I am sure of it.

9) Tanya Streeter. If you cannot tell, I am running out of ideas here. Tanya is a freediver, who holds her breath and dives straight down as deep as she can, then comes back up without dying. She broke a men's "no-limit" record in 2002 by diving 525 feet. Yes, you read that right. 525 feet. Also, she's pretty.

10) The Air Force Academy Fighting Falcons football team. Because smart-as-hell guys who are destined to squeeze into the cockpits of fighter planes and who aren't any bigger than I am have no business starting at linebacker, or fullback, or tackle, or whatever, for a NCAA Division I football team. No business whatsoever. And what's completely fucked up about it is that they win 7 to 12 games every year. And still, most people would rather watch the Miami Hurricanes on TV than the Fighting Falcons. Amazing.


5. Three Athletes you secretly admire but am ashamed to admit it for fear of ridicule:
What a dumb fucking question. Like I give a shit what you think about the athletes I admire.

OK, fine. I'll answer, but this one is under protest:

1) Curlers
2) Biathletes
3) Cyclists
6. Three people (outside family) you would pay to have coffee with:
Let's get one thing straight: I would not pay to have coffee with anyone. Should they decide to buy ME a cup of coffee, though, I would gladly sip with:

1) Floyd Landis (just to, you know, get him to open up a bit).
2) Wayne Coyne (because he seems nice).
3) Bill Clinton (for whom I've never voted, but who has got to be more interesting to listen to than the insufferably smirky dude I DID vote for. Twice. )

7. One thing you could change if you could:
I would change it so I had an unlimited supply of money. Because, all that bullshit about money not buying happiness aside (bullshit perpetrated by people with no money, because the rich people certainly never wrote that), it absolutely makes things easier, and life more fun. That much I know is true.
I won't tag blogs (cuz I don't think any bloggers read this), but if two Bitter Buffalo contributors, Matt and Beth, want to post their responses, then by all means do!