Already moving toward history

What a week. The Duke lacrosse players were declared innocent, Jim Marshall received a pardon for his felony drug conviction and Jayson Williams, I’m told, might get a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Rifle Association.

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So I’m reading about the Angels-Indians series being moved to Milwaukee because of snow, and I’m thinking: Hey, maybe we can get the Nationals to move a series to Milwaukee — or even the entire season.

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Why not? This is the franchise, remember, that once played “home” games in San Juan.

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According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Nats are “the first team in major league history not to score in the first three innings in any of its first 10 games of the season.”

You’ve gotta appreciate a club that refuses to give its fans false hope.

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Elsewhere in baseball, a sports agent was convicted in Florida of smuggling major league prospects out of Cuba. This is what happens when the anti-smoking movement goes too far: We start sneaking ballplayers out of Cuba instead of cigars.

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News item: On ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning,” SportsCenter anchor Stuart Scott says rappers who use language like “nappy-headed hos” — Don Imus’ infamous last words — “mean it in an affectionate way.”

Comment: In the future, the only ho Stuart should be allowed to talk about is Chan Ho Park.

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Strangely, I don’t find myself hating Barry Bonds these days nearly as much as I find myself loathing Brad Halsey, Byung-Hyun Kim, Brian Moehler, Jose Valverde, Felix Hernandez, Dan Haren, Chad Billingsley, Brett Myers, Brian Sweeney, Jeff Francis, Chan Ho Park, Livan Hernandez, Tim Hudson (twice over), Sean Marshall, Les Walrond, Aaron Harang, David Wells, Brian Fuentes, Chris Spurling, Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Zach Duke and Shawn Chacon. They’re the pitchers who served up homers Nos. 715 through 737.

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