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Here is your lifeline  Washington Nationals. We have gone from theory to reality in 24 hours.  Joe Girardi  no longer manages the New York Yankees. There is one potential managerial candidate who represents an obvious upgrade from Dusty Baker  both in the near term and long range.  He  is  Joseph Elliott Girardi .
Go get  him .
If the Nationals â and by âthe Nationalsâ here  we are speaking of the Lerner family  which owns the team â even are going to consider  Girardi   they have to go in with two things wide open: their eyes and their wallet.
Baker  whom they didnât invite back  felt  he  was woefully underpaid at $2 million annually  and the main reason  he  is no longer here anymore is because  his  contract was only for two years. Those two years expired  the Lerners had no further financial commitment  there was some ham-handedness in both public relations and game management in the division series against the Cubs  and so  he âs gone.
[ Girardi  made sense for the Nats even before the Yankees let  him  go]
 Girardi  isnât coming here for any two years and $4 million.  His  last contract with the Yankees  the one that expired following this year  was for twice that â four years and $16 million. Thereâs your starting point. If you want  him   Mr. Lerner  be prepared to value the position of manager more than you have at any point in the past. Take a number youâre comfortable with â and triple it.
Joe Maddon hadnât won a World Series when he agreed to a five-year deal worth a reported $25 million. Could  Girardi  ask for such a sum? Sure.
We donât yet know that  Girardi  will require that or that the Nationals will even inquire about  Girardi âs needs. But logic tells you General Manager Mike Rizzo  who did not return a message Thursday  has to reach out. Follow that logic further  and Rizzo has the toughest sell job of  his  career to  his  own bosses.
If Rizzo calls Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman and gets a favorable report on  Girardi  â and given their long run together  why wouldnât  he ? â and the rest of Rizzoâs reporting reveals no red flags  then  he  must present a case to ownership that what they have before them is an opportunity. Forget the money it will cost. Consider it found money.
 Girardi âs side is important in this  too. On Thursday  in the hours after the Yankees announced they would not bring  him  back  a person close to the (now former) manager said the situation was too âfresh â and we couldnât yet analyze whether  Girardi  would want to move on to the Nationals â or anywhere else â immediately.
But we do know a bit more about  Girardi âs state of mind than we did at the end of the American League Championship Series  when  he  said  he  would have to consult with  his  family â  his  wife and three children live in South Florida â before deciding whether  he  could be all-in as a manager again.
On Thursday   Girardi  issued a statement that thanked just about everybody in the Yankee organization. But it opened with this: âWith a heavy heart  I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back.â
Sounds like someone who was ready to reload for another run.  He  just needed to be asked.
One reasonable question  Girardi  would have â and one that  once a manager is in place  could hang over the entire 2018 season â is: Who would I be working for? Not next year but down the line. Rizzoâs contract runs only through 2018. He and his front office built the team that won four division titles in six years and is poised to contend again. If he convinces  Girardi  to come here and convinces the Lerners to pay for him  wouldnât another extension be in line for the general manager?
A final piece: At 53   Girardi  is too young to really be into evaluating  his  âlegacy.â But here is a list of managers who have won World Series titles with two franchises: Sparky Anderson  who did it in Cincinnati and Detroit  and Tony La Russa  who did it in Oakland and St. Louis. Short list. Everyone on it is in the Hall of Fame.
If  Girardi  wins another World Series   he  joins that group. Could  he  do it in Washington? The Nationals have stated thatâs the only goal that matters. A manager who has done it is now available.
Joe Girardi to the Nationals? The question is no longer theoretical.

John Loos  who played baseball in high school   recalled Monday how  he  was watching the center fielder move during the Aug. 29 Cubs game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field when  he  was hit.  He  was not on  his  cellphone   he  said.
âI like the science of baseball  so I tend to watch the center fielder move as a pitch is made to see how they are trying to get a jump on the ball â  John Loos  said. âI like watching the pitch speeds  things like that.â
Wearing a patch over  his  left eye and glasses   Loos  said  he  didnât see the foul ball coming at  him . Through  his  lawsuit   he  wants the Cubs to expand their netting to prevent other fans from getting hit with flying balls or bats.
 Loos  was sitting in Section 135 â overlooking a stretch of the the first base line that extends to the outfield â during the game in which  he  was injured. An adult friend of  his  daughter has ties to the Cubs  which allowed them to get into the game without a ticket.
 Loos  was taken by ambulance from Wrigley to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.  He  has undergone three surgeries since then and is expected to have at least two more.
 Loos  said  he  may have to replace  his  left eye with a prosthesis.  He  said  he  can still see out of  his  right eye but has had problems adjusting to light and shadows.
 Loos â attorney  Colin Dunn  said they have not determined how fast the ball was going when it hit  Loos   though he has seen video of the incident on social media.
 John Loos  remains a Cubs fan  but  he  has no plans to watch any future games from where  he  was hit with the foul ball.
âHonestly  I would probably be at home or at a bar across the street â  he  said.
Schaumburg man hit blinded by foul ball at Wrigley Field suing Cubs MLB

Then  last week  reader David P. pointed me to a column by  Barry Nussbaum   chief statistician at the EPA for over a decade and currently president of the American Statistical Association. As soon as I read it I called  Nussbaum   who was a young EPA analyst in the late 70s when heâwell  weâll get to that. First  though  the answer to my question.
According to  Nussbaum   EPA wanted places like California to reduce smog  and that meant cars would have to be fitted with catalytic converters. However  since gasoline lead ruins catalytic converters  refineries needed to produced unleaded gasoline. This was the initial impetus behind unleaded gasoline. The fact that it also reduced atmospheric lead was basically a happy accident.
The first itemâunfortunately for HUDâsuggested that lead poisoning was not correlated with lead paint in housing. After all  thereâs no reason to think that kids are exposed to more lead paint in the summer. The second item suggests that lead poisoning is correlated with gasoline lead.Â² And the third item immediately convinced Carter to continue the lead phasedown. âHe stated he did not want any policy that might have a particularly deleterious effect on these two groups â  Nussbaum  says.
On a statistical note   Nussbaum  adds this: âWith the benefit of hindsight  Carter was concerned about the harmful effects on minority populations. Would he have even have known this if the graph just had one composite line for blood lead?â Maybe not. Sometimes flukes of data presentation are all it takes to influence public policy.
Â¹If youâre wondering why the chart doesnât show white children  the answer is lost to history.  Nussbaum  thinks it might have something to do with the limits of plotting technology at the time. In any case  everyone knew what the line looked like: just like the other two  but lower.

A Little Bit of Chart History for Wednesday â Mother Jones