In baseball news that doesn’t make a lot of sense, Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman has decided he hates baseball and would rather have no money than less of it. The synopsis, from NBC’s Hardball Talk.

Just minutes after the Nationals beat the Mariners with a walk-off sacrifice fly in a 1-0 game to move above .500 manager Jim Riggleman announced his resignation. According to general manager Mike Rizzo this morning Riggleman expressed displeasure about his contract, which includes a 2012 option that the Nationals haven’t picked up, and said he would step down from the job if it wasn’t handled by the end of this afternoon’s game.

It wasn’t and he did. What an odd situation, particularly with the Nationals playing their best baseball in … well, ever. Riggleman was clearly extremely frustrated by the entire situation, but to quit 75 games into the season, with the team winning 11 of their last 12 games, is shocking.

I eliminated some of the paragraph breaks, but you get the idea. Be sure to read about the first manager to resign in a Dugout this week, then read today’s, which follows the jump.

The Dugout

	RiggleMeThisBatman: the hell are you talking about, that was easily the best movie I’ve seen all year.
	RiggleMeThisBatman: Everything about Super 8 harks back to simpler times, the music and technology of the era evoking something nostalgic and comforting without being flippant or facetious.
	HarperImage: it was gay
	RiggleMeThisBatman: It was gay? How was it gay?
	HarperImage: pish, that sh** was gay what do you want me to say
	RiggleMeThisBatman: I wanted you to explain to me what made Super 8 gay
	HarperImage: why do you even care
	RiggleMeThisBatman: Because we’re having a conversation, and I am legitimately interested in knowing what was gay about it.
	HarperImage: ok it was stupid
	RiggleMeThisBatman: and that makes it gay
	HarperImage: i didn’t like the pacing, it has pacing issues, it was badly paced
	RiggleMeThisBatman: oh my god what does that even mean
	RiggleMeThisBatman: Give me an example of what you’re talking about when you say "pacing issues".
	HarperImage: /pretends to text
	RiggleMeThisBatman: What about Green Lantern? That had a completely different pace, did that make Green Lantern great?
	HarperImage: green lantern sucked, it had terrible graphics and blake lively cant act
	RiggleMeThisBatman: Blake Lively can’t act, but Ryan Reynolds with green CGI abs is fine, you were okay with that but not with Blake Lively’s emotive choices in the Green Lantern movie
	HarperImage: why do you care
	RiggleMeThisBatman: How about this, tell me the best movie you’ve seen this year.
	HarperImage: why
	RiggleMeThisBatman: very best movie, all year long
	HarperImage: Lol have you seen old school
	RiggleMeThisBatman: Not a movie from this year.
	HarperImage: yeah its old but funny as f**k tho, it came out before i was born
	Online Host Welcome to the Washington Nationals Chatroom.
	RiggleMeThisBatman: and that’s why I’m quitting, and why I’m moving to the planet f**king Mars and never looking at baseball again
	SlowLerner: whatter you mean your quitting
	RiggleMeThisBatman: did you not just hear that entire thing I said
	SlowLerner: yer winnin ball matches, don’t quit
	RiggleMeThisBatman: if I cared about winning I would’ve never taken a job managing the Washington Nationals.
	RiggleMeThisBatman: you aren’t paying me enough to put up with this
	SlowLerner: are we paying you
	RiggleMeThisBatman: look at somebody like Mike Quade, Mike Quade is doing a great job, Mike Quade is the man I want to be
	RiggleMeThisBatman: 14 games under .500 and farting on the bench until it smells like Bonnaroo That’s the job I signed up for
	SlowLerner: you rully think this mike wade fella’s doin a good jorb
	RiggleMeThisBatman: I know it
	Online Host Meanwhile, in the Chicago Cubs Chatroom
	AlfonsoManyChannels: F**K YOU
	KaZambrano: F**K YOU
	AlfonsoManyChannels: F**K YOU
	KaZambrano: NO F**K YOU
	AlfonsoManyChannels: F**K TO YOU
	MikeQuade180Pounds: hey guys hey
	MikeQuade180Pounds: sticks and stones, you know, they might break my bones but words, you know… words
	KaZambrano: SORIANO YOU F**KEN STINKS
	AlfonsoManyChannels: CHICAGO CAN GO F*K ITSELF WITH ASSES UP ITS CNTS
	LumberjacksKerryWood: /hears words /goes on 60-day DL
	Online Host Back in the Nationals Chatroom
	RiggleMeThisBatman: Mike Quade is a great manager and a fine man and I would kiss him on the mouth if, well
	RiggleMeThisBatman: if he didn’t look like that
	SlowLerner: please don’t stop your coachin, i likes it
	RiggleMeThisBatman: sorry, I quit, and I’m already late for my new job: bitching on AM radio lates
	Online Host RiggleMeThisBatman has left the chatroom.
	SlowLerner: WULL… wull fine! we don’t need ya! Anybody can manage the Nats. i know! i’ll get my poopah to manage!
	SlowLerner: poopah can you interim manage my ball team
	Poopah: …
	SlowLerner: aw i forgot im old

The Dugout: Jim Riggleman is Tired of All This Winning Sh**

The Dugout

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