Washington Has “Significant” Interest in Aroldis Chapman

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. The Washington Nationals are said to have “significant” interest in Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman. Chapman, as we all know by now, was thought to be traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a pair of prospects before it came to light that he was involved in a domestic violence case that involved choking his girlfriend and expending eight bullets into the air from a gun.

So let me get this straight you want a guy who reportedly fired eight shots and choked his girlfriend in the same bullpen as the guy who choked out the team’s star player in the dugout for all to see on national TV and sit them both next to who Twitter has nicknamed “Emo Storen.” This sounds, again, like a disaster waiting to happen. Aroldish Chapman, Drew Storen and Jonathan Papelbon in the same bullpen? In the same stadium? Wow.

That’s a whole lot of personalities and not a big enough locker room or bullpen if you ask me, but that’s only if you ask me.