[ed. note - “Bryce Harper is not getting traded today. Mike Rizzo said do. In the end, this all ended up being rained on by Rizzo... but there was some pretty interesting chatter over the last 24 hours, so just follow along to the end, and watch for all the quickly changing tenses as we reacted to updates in real time...”]
Hard as it is to imagine for some, or hard as it would be for a fan of the Nationals a few years back, the collective “meh” from fans in the nation’s capital over the idea that Bryce Harper might be dealt at some point today was palpable.