Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was trying to impress upon his Republican colleagues the value of fielding a full team, whether in baseball or governing. At issue was the GOP blocking several of President Barack Obama’s nominees.

But Reid committed a pretty big error while drawing comparisons to the local baseball team.

“Davey Johnson is the manager of the National Mets, this team that we’re so happy to have here in Washington,” Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday. “He’s here, as manager of that team, to field a winning a team.”

Of course, Johnson is the manager of the Washington Nationals. The Mets are in New York, but Reid must have gotten confused since Johnson used to manage them too…thirty years ago. In fact, he led them to a World Series victory in 1986.

Reid’s point was that, like Johnson, Obama couldn’t achieve success with only half a team. Making fun of his mistake, while reiterating that point, he later tweeted “Mets Nats manager Davey Johnson wouldn’t succeed with half a team. President Obama can’t either.” That missive ended with the hashtag “#EndGridlock” to hammer home what he was getting at.

But it didn’t stop blogs from both New York and D.C. Poking fun at the Nevada senator.

Reid does like to reference the Nationals, perhaps most famously in stealing star Bryce Harper’s trademark “That’s a clown question, bro,” dismissal during press conferences.

His one mistake did not stop the rest of his Nationals-heavy speech on the need for a fully-stocked baseball team to contend in the majors. He discussed a hypothetical in which Johnson is told that he has to play without his stars Adam LaRoche and Ryan Zimmerman.

“They would go on, they would perform, just like President Obama’s done,” Reid said, “but they don’t play to their ability.”

He had begun by saying that “[n]o president can safeguard America’s national and economic security to the best of his or her ability without their chosen team in place.” But by threatening several of Obama’s nominees with filibusters rather than up or down votes, the majority leader compared it to Johnson managing half a team during the baseball season.

The Republican message to the president, according to Reid, was that “you can’t have your team until we tell you everything is just fine, and it’s going to take a long time for us to tell you that.”