Dave, Watson and Nate Take On: 2007 Nationals Progdown Blognostication Credibility Challenge

We here at NTP are always up for a challenge to provide opinions when we know little to nothing.

BallWonk, we're up for your ....

And to do so, we've brought back our "Take On" format, so you get three times the stupidity for the price of one. In order of responses in the email thread amongst the NTP staff....

Dave:

1. Nationals season record. 79-83
   
2. Nationals NL East division place and games back (if any). Last Place, 14 games back.
   
3. Date on which Nick Johnson first appears in a Nationals game. May 15th
   
4. Date on which Nick Johnson suffers season-ending injury. He makes it without
   
5. Nationals team leader in pitching starts, with number of starts. Bergmann with 26 starts
   
6. Total number of starting pitchers used. 14
   
7. Number of ejections for Manny Acta. 2
   
8. Guzman's batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging average. .296, .314, .370
   
9. Nationals home runs at RFK. 68
   
10. Paid attendance for the July 21 game against Colorado at RFK (our only Fox national broadcast of 2007). 21,496 (I mean, it's a game with the NATS and the ROCKIES -- no one will be interested).
    

Watson:

1. Nationals season record. 68-94 (BTW Dave, there’s 162 games, not 160.)
   
2. Nationals NL East division place and games back (if any). Last Place, 25 games back.
   
3. Date on which Nick Johnson first appears in a Nationals game. May 29th
   
4. Date on which Nick Johnson suffers season-ending injury. He makes it through
   
5. Nationals team leader in pitching starts, with number of starts. Patterson with 27 starts
   
6. Total number of starting pitchers used. 11
   
7. Number of ejections for Manny Acta. 4
   
8. Guzman's batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging average. .255, .298, .374
   
9. Nationals home runs at RFK. 74
   
10. Paid attendance for the July 21 game against Colorado at RFK (our only Fox national broadcast of 2007). 27,234
    

Nate:

1. Nationals season record. 72-90
   
2. Nationals NL East division place and games back (if any). 4th place, 19 games back.
   
3. Date on which Nick Johnson first appears in a Nationals game. July 13th
   
4. Date on which Nick Johnson suffers season-ending injury. July 21st, before a national TV audience
   
5. Nationals team leader in pitching starts, with number of starts. Jerome Williams, 29 starts
   
6. Total number of starting pitchers used. 9
   
7. Number of ejections for Manny Acta. 3
   
8. Guzman's batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging average. .270, .310, .385
   
9. Nationals home runs at RFK. 63
   
10. Paid attendance for the July 21 game against Colorado at RFK (our only Fox national broadcast of 2007). 24,928
    

Now BallWonk, we're expecting you to keep score here.