The Nationals.
The Redskins.
The Bullets Wizards.
The Caps.

Is there a sports city in America that is subjected to more pain right now? OK, Miami, you’re even worse off, but the glory days of the Heat and even the Marlins weren’t that long ago.

And its hard to look at the ‘Skins, the Bullets Wizards and the Caps and see much hope. Only the Nats — baseball’s most overachieving team last year and the sport’s busiest off-season trader — look like they’re getting better.

Washington a long, illustrious history of serving as Loserville. The old Senators (in various iterations), the pre-Squire Redskins, and even the Bullets with the exception of a couple of years were the very picture of losing franchises, and not in a lovable way.

And now: The Caps are the worst team in hockey and perhaps its most struggling franchise; the ‘Skins are a chronically underachieving basket case; the Bullets Wizards are trending back down after somehow reaching mediocrity; and, heck, even the Harlem Globetrotters’ longtime opponents were from Washington.

I hope Washingtonians can love their sports franchises, because their franchises do not appear to love them back very much.