If Jim Riggleman's surprise resignation at the helm of the Washington Nationals was the managerial equivalent of dropping a bomb, just call Friday The Day After.  Riggleman -- never known for great quotes or producing screaming headlines -- made the media rounds Friday and left a trail of virality in his wake. Sort of what one might expect from a guy who just extended the proverbial one-finger salute to his bosses.  Riggleman, 58, started it off Thursday night with a couple rounds of drinks with bar crawlers far younger than he in Bethesda, Md.  When the omnipresence of a cell phone camera distributed photos of his night out on the Web, Riggleman hardly tried to Weiner his way out of it; heck, he embraced his mild debauchery on the radio waves:  "I had to let those ladies get a look at me…there are some beautiful young ladies in that place!"  Later, in an interview with a Chicago sports-radio station, he expressed regret over the photos. Until he didn't:  "I should never have done that. But look, I'm a single man, and you gotta let those college girls get a look at you now and then, you know?"  While his feelings for general manager Mike Rizzo are now well-known, Riggleman decided to attack the Fourth Estate, ripping Washington Post columnist Thomas Boswell on Sirius XM Radio. And it was in a manner more befitting "Jim from Rockville, first-time, long-time," rather than a major league manager:  "I read the papers. I read that nonsense Tom Boswell writes, and I'll say this: Tom Boswell has tried to be the impetus behind me not being the manager here for a long time. He is a master of the half-truth. A half-truth can be more dangerous than a lie. He prints just enough nonsense that can paint a picture. But he's become such a snake and such an impetus to have me out of there, [and] he's just written so many snide remarks. That type of stuff from such a well-respected columnist throughout the country, to get away with that nonsense, I'm just bringing it to your attention, that that's the kind of stuff that gets written that is totally false."  Great stuff. Sort of makes one wonder what exactly Riggleman's angling for now that he needs a job. Unfortunately, the opening on Two and a Half Men has been filled. So maybe Riggleman should take a cue from that show's former star and launch his own Torpedo of Truth national tour. Judging by Day 1, it figures to be more compelling than the original.  See photos of: Washington Nationals, Charlie Sheen  To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor  . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to  . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
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