When IJWMFTT started, it sought to be a critical blog on the sports radio world.   As time went by, other media drew my ire.  So when I get the chance to return to my roots, I take it.

In an earlier entry, I chronicled the failings of the Washington Nationals franchise.  Today, ESPN 980's The Locker Room With Kevin Sheehan unknowingly let us have a glimpse of that failing.  At every juncture, this team has overvalued itself.

Interim manager Jim Riggleman was on in an attempt to shed that title.  No not how you're thinking.  Most want to drop the interim.  If Nationals management were lsitening, I would seriously question both parts of the title that were bestowed upon him.

Riggleman was the bench coach, and sat alongside Manny Acta all season.  He saw the same games that you,