Now that the Will Leitch blogosphere bukkake is over, we can get back to important issues. Things like the Marlins inability to win games lately. Or the fact that Scott Olsen hasn’t won a game in almost 2 months. Or how Mark Hendrickson has slowly morphed into, well, Mark Hendrickson.

Seriously, what the hell happened to this pitching staff? Obviously, they were playing out of their minds early in the season, but to think that the top 2 pitchers in the rotation would have a combined 2 wins in their last 20 games? You’d have to be off your rocker.

That said, this is the NL East. There isn’t a team in the division thats figured out how to take any kind of commanding lead in the standings. The Phillies, for all their early season boasting, are a mere 2 games ahead of the Fish for first place. The Mets, after starting the season with the intensity of 1000 warriors 12 midget, emo teenagers have pulled to within just one game of the Marlins. The Braves are just a game back of the Mets. And the Nationals… well, yea, the Braves are just a game back of the Mets.

Early on, we said that the Phillies would be the team to beat. While we still feel that way (if only for the sake of consistency), this division sure seems ripe for the picking.

Welcome to the NL East: Where .500 is the new .613.

For more detailed info on the NL East, check out the NL East Blog. They have way more time to devote to analysis than we do. We’re simply here to crack the occasional joke and Photoshop pimp hats onto Scott Olsen.