Against the National League, the Nats aren't half bad  After 83
games - roughly the halfway point of the season - I started
working on a big reader poll about the first half of the season,
what the Nationals should do in July, how they should handle key
decisions coming up, etc. But I think I'll save that for this
time next week, when we're at the All-Star break and everyone's
in a more retrospective mood.  So instead, I started looking at
the National League standings this morning and realized
something: Against the National League, the Nationals are almost
a .500 team.  Their June swan dive was (mostly) perfectly timed
with the interleague schedule, against which the Nationals went
5-13. Granted, they had a soft interleague slate, with the
Indians, Royals and Orioles accounting for 12 of those 18 games,
but they were 5-7 against those teams. Against the White Sox and
Tigers, they got swept twice.  But against the National League?
It's a different story. The Nationals are 15-15 against the
East, 9-9 against