Help us buy the Washington Nationals!!

Join our “Put Your Money Where Our Mouth Is Campaign!”

Before the 2003 season, MLB took over control of the then Montreal Expos with the plan to move them to a new city and sell them to a proper owner.

This season marked the return of baseball to the Nation's Capitol as MLB took the first step in their plan by moving the team to Washington D.C. Now, the team is up for bid.

I have always said, baseball fans, not investors, should own baseball teams. Therefore, there are no better candidates for ownership than a couple of loud-mouthed opinionated, fantasy-playing, baseball bloggin’ fans like us to own America’s team. However, we are a little short on cash.

Here’s where you can help:

Please donate to our cause. I estimate that if we can raise 500 million dollars, we will win the bidding. Granted, that is overpaying for this team, but as long as we are not doing with loans or equity on stock options (otherwise racking up serious debt,) who cares? It is worth it!

We can’t promise that we know what we are doing, but we will promise three things:

1. We will always put together a competitive team.
2. Cheap seats will always be cheap seats!
3. We will continue to blog in order to keep a connection with the fan base, always providing a voice for them. What good is a team without a fan base (right Tampa?)

Please review our many tiers of donations:

$5 – Bleacher Creatures: With every $5 dollar donation, you will receive a coupon for a free beer at any home game in the new stadium.

$100 – Box Seat level: A $100 dollar donation will receive a “Peter Angelos hates your freedom!” t-shirt, in traditional Black with Orange lettering.

$1000 – American Patriot Level: With every $1000 dollar donation, one of us will pick a Montreal resident at random and mail them a photocopy of our middle fingers.

$100,000 – Strike em' out, Throw em' out Level: With a donation of $100,000, your teenage daughter will be in safe hands, as she will have the chance to be accompanied to her Prom by Nats Catcher Brian Schneider. Don’t worry, Dads! He stops anyone from stealing second base!

$500,000 – American Dream Level: With a donation of $500,000, you will have the chance to live out your dream and prove yourself as you will be signed to a one-year contract with the Single A Savannah Sand Gnats.

$1,000,000 - Senatorial Bribery Level: With a $1,000,000 donation, you will attend the next Senate Committee Hearing on Steroids in Baseball as Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Famer Sen. Jim Bunting's (R-KY) personal guest.

$10,000,000 – Lobbyist Level: With a $10 million dollar donation, you will have the opportunity to sign a free agent of your choice for the next season (subject to approval, naturally.)

So, please join! For the love of the Great American Pastime - put baseball back into the right hands, that of the fun and obnoxious fan!! Please help quickly because we are running out of time!

Takin' you out to the ball game,
- Your Friends at 'Athletes In Action'



Disclaimer: It is possible we either don’t raise enough in time to produce the winning bid, or enough overage to grease necessary MLB pockets to be taken seriously. Either case (or any others) donations will not be returned. If we are not awarded the team though the bidding process, we will use the collected funds to take care of some left over student loans we have kicking about, maybe put a down payment on a condo to have an office so we can blog all day, and then set up a fund to build state-of-the-art little league fields for needy neighborhoods. Ok, maybe we would buy a minor league team for fun. Also, no donation awards will be granted (obviously) if we are not awarded ownership of the Washington Nationals Baseball Club.