Don't get it twisted

I've seen a few things lately that have nothing to do with baseball and more to do with politics. There are some local writers and bloggers that would like to try and twist what I say as to why the Nationals are not playing well. To me thats about as low as you may want to go. My street cred comes from experience, and though I sometimes might not come across as kind and gentle the way some people might think it should, let me try and get you up to speed with MY experience. I was a member of the first team in the NL to go wire to wire, remain in first place, the entire year, the first NL team ever in MLB history. The team I played for did not have one 20-game winner, or one everyday player with 30 HRs or 100 RBI. The team I played for was locked out in spring training of 1990 and chose to spend every day of that lockout working out as a team, without a coaching staff, at my old college in Lakeland, Fla. The team I played with made 102 errors in the regular season, scored 693 runs and allowed 597, not even close to a perfect season. As a TEAM we took infield/outfield as often as we could and that hard work would help us all do the job when it counted. During the NLCS game 2 in which the Reds won 2-1, Andy Van Slyke tried to tag up and go to third on a fly ball to RF. Rightfielder and five-time World Champion Paul O'Neill gunned him down with a one-hop throw to third. Another defining moment happened in Game 4 of the NLCS with the Reds leading 4-2. Bobby Bonilla hit a double past a diving Billy Hatcher (who was playing CF because Eric Davis had a bad knee). Eric Davis backed up the play from his LF position gunned down Bonilla trying to stretch his 2B into a triple; the Reds won 5-3 (I got the save after striking out 2 of 3 men in 9th). In Game 6 with a runner on base in a 2-1 game in the top of the 9th inning, Carmelo Martinez hit what could have been a go ahead HR to RF, Glenn Braggs is in RF because of a double switch, reaches up over the RF wall and saves the game and maybe the series. The Reds won game 6 2-1 and won the NLCS. Randy Myers and I were named co-MVPs of the NLCS. My stats in the '90 NLCS 5 IP, 1 save, 20 batters faced, 0 hits, 1BB and 10 Ks. The Pirates in 1990 were in the middle of a three-year run as Division Champs. The 1990 Reds would go on to sweep the Oakland A's at the end of their three-year World Series Run. My job with MASN and the Nationals is to give some perspective, based on my experience in and around MLB over the last 20 years. I love my job, this team and the city. If you want to challenge my street cred, that's cool, but you better bring a lunch because we're going to be here all day.