Despite being an east coast team, the Washington Nationals don’t get much publicity.  And for good reason, what with their 11-21 record.

But if you play for them, you’d probably like to get an occassional headline.  Like, oh, say, if you went on a 30-game hitting streak, like Ryan Zimmerman recently did.  However, I didn’t hear about his hitting streak until today–when it ended.

Now, I don’t follow baseball as closely as Rich and Andy do, but I typically check the headlines each day. But I have to imagine that if a player on the Yankees or Red Sox was in the middle of a 30-game hitting streak, ESPN would probably be breaking in with live coverage of every at-bat.

Hell, if it were Alex Rodriguez or some other star player, ESPN on-air personalities would probably be joined by executives for an on-air circle jerk.