If you choose, or are predisposed by geography, to root for the Washington Nationals, you have to expect to watch a few losing baseball games. This is how it goes. But no one should have to go through this:
Nats Fan Has the Worst Luck In the World (Besides Being a Nats Fan)
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↵I figured that even with the worst team in the bigs, this 0-19 record couldn’t have been an easy task. So I asked my cousin—a Ph.D. who works as an economist at the Department of Labor and moonlights as a statistics analyst/columnist on ESPN.com and Baseball Prospectus—to crunch some numbers. He and his mathematician friends figured out that the odds of my going 0-19 this year at Nats Park were 1 in 131,204.
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↵Yes, the fan in question went 0-19 at Nats Park this season. The mind boggles … but it boggles quite less when the Nats are involved. Anything over five wins there would have been a positive, right?











