The Nats are the worst team in baseball. Since their 3-0 start, they’ve gone 1-12. They have terrible starting pitching for the third straight year, and when combined with surprisingly weak hitting, the results are pretty predictable. They’ve virtually eliminated themselves from contention after only three weeks, and they’re playing in baseball’s toughest division, so prospects this year aren’t so hot.

Perhaps you’d like to consider at this point the Nats’ moves over the last few years. How many good, or even reasonably decent, free agents have they signed? How many innings-burning pitchers have they picked up? How many truly great talents have come up through the minor league system?

Yet the Nats have priced many of their seats like they’re a team that has spent the money to make such acquisitions. They haven’t. In fact, it’s hard for me to see at this point exactly what the team is doing with its money.

Thomas Boswell had a good take on the whole cost-vs.-product issue with the Nats last month. And once again this year, I’m in a season ticket pool that cost me some serious change. I expect progress. Instead, the Nats are in the midst of their third straight April collapse. I’m about done with that.