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Nats hold Wild Card spot as they open up weekend series in Tampa Bay · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. Happy Friday to
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  Speaker 1: all of our listeners and viewers. I'm Eric shell House
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  Speaker 1: from the Bat Boys and joining me Kevin Franz into
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals and Spencer and Dusbaum of the Athletic
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  Speaker 1: Boys are down in Tampa is The Nationals open up
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  Speaker 1: a three game set against the Rays later on today.
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  Speaker 1: It's Cade Cavali who gets the rock. He had the
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  Speaker 1: win last time out against Seattle. Five innings pitched, just
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  Speaker 1: three runs, allowed, four hits, and five strikeouts, no walks
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  Speaker 1: in the process. So, boys, how are we doing? And Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: what can we expect from the Rays? This is a
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  Speaker 1: really good team at home twenty four and nine, but
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  Speaker 1: four and six in the last ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't care what they do in the last ten.
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  Speaker 2: They're just they're the Rays. They're good, They're they're solid team.
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  Speaker 2: They're a team that if you circle on the schedule
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  Speaker 2: every year because they remind yourselves of you. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a proper thing to do if you're the Nats,
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  Speaker 2: and those are the teams that usually give the Nats trouble.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I'm a little bit hesitant on just
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  Speaker 2: finding out just seeing how they could play against it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a team that could.
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  Speaker 2: It worries me because the defense we know has been
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  Speaker 2: a problem all year. Yes, they have these good games,
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  Speaker 2: but more importantly, they give away free nineties too often,
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  Speaker 2: and this team takes advantage of it so often because
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  Speaker 2: that's a good team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And that's the thing too, is like it's
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  Speaker 4: so funny. I don't necessarily always think of this as
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching the game, but you look at the Nats
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  Speaker 4: like getting beat up by pick any series the Marlins,
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  Speaker 4: Like that's a team in the past where you wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: expect them to play great defense or do great base running,
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  Speaker 4: but that's what they do now, Like that's their new identity, right,
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  Speaker 4: they got swrapt by him. You look at God, it's
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  Speaker 4: been so long since the Nats have gotten beat up
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  Speaker 4: by someone it's it's almost hard to pick. But the Brewers,
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  Speaker 4: even in that second series where they had figured it
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  Speaker 4: out and they you know, hard nineties defensively, they haven't
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  Speaker 4: figured out and the Nats really strugg there. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's been a bit of an achilles hill. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Nats can outslug teams, but you got to also
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  Speaker 4: like kind of out match up these teams. So I
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  Speaker 4: kind of look at the Cleveland series almost as like
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  Speaker 4: a mock of like, Hey, if we're gonna outsmart these teams,
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  Speaker 4: we also have to outslug them, and that's that might
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  Speaker 4: be kind of the key for something coming up here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you look at the three day preview over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the weekend, Miles Michaelis is you're probable for tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and Andrew Alvarez on Sunday the race still haven't announced
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  Speaker 1: a probable pitcher for tomorrow. But I'm curious, guys, we've
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about Michaels and Lttel having openers over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the season, but kind of get in the sense,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how tonight's game might play out with
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  Speaker 1: Kate on the bump, but assuming they use some of
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  Speaker 1: their bullpen, could be seeing an opener again tomorrow for Michaels.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's likely, right like we've seen that pretty consistently,
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  Speaker 4: unless the lineup is super right handed heavy and Michaelis,
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  Speaker 4: as we've talked about again and again, is been open
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  Speaker 4: to basically anything the team throws at him this year,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's role or how he's pitching, or how he's
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  Speaker 4: working out or anything like that. So yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: the strategies work. So I don't think this team is
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  Speaker 4: one where when a strategy is working, they go away
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  Speaker 4: from it, you know what I mean, Like it feels
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  Speaker 4: like something they're going to keep up and keep going on.
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  Speaker 1: Seems to me Franny like he seems to thrive in
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  Speaker 1: those relief roles in particular. I don't have the exact
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  Speaker 1: numbers the splits between starts and relief this season, but
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  Speaker 1: last time out in relief, really strong stuff from him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think his his attention to detail, I think
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  Speaker 2: it puts him in a great spot. I mean, ultimately
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  Speaker 2: it comes, you know, you get you get clear of
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  Speaker 2: those first few guys, may light a little fire under
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  Speaker 2: his ass, and I think that's okay, right, And I
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  Speaker 2: think at the end of the day, what do you
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  Speaker 2: want to see out of Miles michaelis you want to
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  Speaker 2: see what we have seen, and what we have seen
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  Speaker 2: is I wouldn't sit there and say electric.
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  Speaker 3: I mean at times it looks electric, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's in his nine his nine opens that
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  Speaker 2: he's come off or come out of the pen. It's
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  Speaker 2: forty three and means thirty eight hits, it's seventeen in runs,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a three five six era. The punch
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  Speaker 2: outs to walks twenty two to six. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: whip is a one. I mean, that's the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: you want to see. When he starts, it's a two
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  Speaker 2: ninety average against it's a one six y four whip, right,
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if it after when you have
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  Speaker 2: six starts and you have nine nine relief appearances, let's
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  Speaker 2: call it like, and the numbers are as drastic as
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  Speaker 2: they are, it works, right, Like, That's what we have
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  Speaker 2: to come to a conclusion right now with because however
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  Speaker 2: it may be, whatever the mentality is, it's working.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to like one that's the most effective way
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  Speaker 1: they've been using them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And one thing that he mentioned actually last time
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  Speaker 4: that was that you know, obviously he wants to be
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  Speaker 4: a starter and it thrived in that role in the
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  Speaker 4: past and like twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two. But
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  Speaker 4: this allows him to see that pocket a lefties usually
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  Speaker 4: at the start of a lineup, and instead of being
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  Speaker 4: out there and figuring it out on his own, he
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  Speaker 4: gets to read those swings from afar and say, hey, like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I can even almost be outside of myself because it's
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  Speaker 4: not actually me out there, and I can read their
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  Speaker 4: swings and understand what's going on. And I think that's
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  Speaker 4: why he hasn't really gotten beat too often by the
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  Speaker 4: top of these lineups, both because he's not facing them
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  Speaker 4: a third time through, but also he's seeing the way
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  Speaker 4: that they navigate against the picture of that day.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, Spencer, this was Tuesday night, I believe when
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  Speaker 1: you were running your survey, but you talked to nine
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  Speaker 1: different Nationals fans over the course of nine innings. Really
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  Speaker 1: curious as to what your findings were. You just wrote
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  Speaker 1: about it in The Athletic earlier, but share with us all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really interesting. I found a mix of
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  Speaker 4: despair and hope, which is like a kind of a
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  Speaker 4: weird thing to navigate, and it's just just what happens
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  Speaker 4: when you're both far ahead of schedule and also in
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  Speaker 4: these fans' minds, haven't spent a lot of money, And yes,
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  Speaker 4: the Nats spent on all this stuff behind the scenes
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  Speaker 4: this offseason. That is a big reason why they are
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  Speaker 4: where they are right now. But I think when you
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  Speaker 4: follow this team closely, you spend your money on tickets.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a natural inclination right where like I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to talk down to a fan and say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: like this is not just this is why they didn't
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  Speaker 4: spend this offseason, but like they want to see that
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  Speaker 4: ten million guy on the roster, they want to buy
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  Speaker 4: fifteen million on the roster, And so it's a mix
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  Speaker 4: of like, hey, I'm optimistic, but I also want to
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  Speaker 4: see this team spend again. Now again, I've talked a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about why I think it was smart for
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  Speaker 4: the Nationals to go about this approach this offseason. Now,
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  Speaker 4: next offseason, the offseason after that, that's all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden where we have to talk about, hey, does it
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  Speaker 4: make sense to bring an a vet or even trade
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  Speaker 4: for a vet that you know, three years on his
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  Speaker 4: deal and can guide this team into it's a you know,
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  Speaker 4: full next era, but overall a lot of hope but
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  Speaker 4: not ready to get all the way there.
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  Speaker 2: I would never say talk down to a fan on that,
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  Speaker 2: because I think it's you got to speak of truth,
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  Speaker 2: and the truth is like they were so far away
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  Speaker 2: from spending on a.
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  Speaker 3: Guy like that or guys like that. You didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: If you had the crystal ball and understood that this
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  Speaker 2: was going to happen, then we then there it's a
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  Speaker 2: totally different task, right, But there was a lot that
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  Speaker 2: they need to clean up from start. And so like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand the fan that we need this ten
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  Speaker 2: million we need this fifteen million dollar guy. I've never
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  Speaker 2: understood that until you've had that that core group that
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  Speaker 2: has proven that they're they're on the rise, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: never do we see this core group say that they
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  Speaker 2: were on the rise last year, Like we knew that
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  Speaker 2: James and CJ were great, but we're where were the
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  Speaker 2: other piece is going to be right and and fall
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  Speaker 2: in the line? And we saw we started to see
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  Speaker 2: it this year. And I think that needs to be
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  Speaker 2: the part that stands out more than anything is that
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody knew this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: You could not have spending ten fifteen million on a guy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think does anything in this no matter what
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  Speaker 2: with this because at the end of the day, you're
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  Speaker 2: spending ten to fifteen million on what a DH, Well,
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  Speaker 2: you need that DH spot on a starter that's the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the road starter, you know, on the free
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  Speaker 2: agent market if you're looking at a place every fifteen day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so can only impact. I didn't I didn't mind the
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  Speaker 2: way that it was spent, Like yeah, did it it.
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  Speaker 3: Hit not all of them, that's fine. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same time.
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  Speaker 2: Like we just you have to understand, like we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: the part of the franchise where they were in the moment,
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  Speaker 2: Like this isn't talking about like years past why they
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  Speaker 2: didn't spend. This is about like coming with the new
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  Speaker 2: regime and and and you know management they needed to
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  Speaker 2: see before they could actually invest like that much too,
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  Speaker 2: and convinced they didn't. They haven't had any rapport yet
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  Speaker 2: there with the Learner family to to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: this is this was it.
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  Speaker 3: We have to do this now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think there's a lot of I'm tired
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  Speaker 2: of already hearing you know about you know guys coming
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  Speaker 2: out the woodworks now and say, you know these are
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  Speaker 2: all our guys. Yeah, blah blah blah, they didn't let
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  Speaker 2: us spend and all this stuff. It's like make excuses.
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  Speaker 2: It's like this is getting tired.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And also I mean you bring up his ownership going
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  Speaker 4: to improve it that early on, No was the team
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  Speaker 4: ready to do it, We didn't think so. And beyond that,
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  Speaker 4: the third side of that is what fifteen million dollar
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  Speaker 4: guy wants to come to a team that won sixty
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  Speaker 4: six games last year, right, and who's going to do that?
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  Speaker 4: All small group and a lot of those guys are
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  Speaker 4: going to want to go play for a contender.
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  Speaker 2: We want those, Yeah, we want well, uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't say, like we always bring up the past with
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  Speaker 2: the Jason Wurre. We just need an asshole at some point.
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  Speaker 2: And when we get an asshole in that clubhousekus what things?
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  Speaker 2: Things have changed in a good way. Oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: know because and I don't say it in the negative
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  Speaker 2: term of that, like there's a there's a oh the
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  Speaker 2: cute little gnats right now, they're playing great, all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff to be coming, like that force of everything that
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  Speaker 2: you know they put out there is going to be
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  Speaker 2: fantastic and and they're coming to get you every night.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's the.
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  Speaker 2: Part where you know, you add that that piece there
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  Speaker 2: at some point, but you know, watching I also think
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  Speaker 2: that this is a part of you know, the players
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  Speaker 2: by then not spending on that on the that guy,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, hell, yeah, this is our chance. Guys like
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  Speaker 2: we believe in ourselves. This is this is elevated that
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  Speaker 2: belief in themselves too.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Well, that's and that's kind of the other segue
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  Speaker 4: as well into the other thing they brought up, which
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  Speaker 4: is they don't want the nast trade c j Abrams
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  Speaker 4: and like, again that's a discussion we've had, we will
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  Speaker 4: continue to have on this pot about either the the
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  Speaker 4: efficacy of doing something like that or obviously the downside.
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  Speaker 4: But you just bring up the downside right there is
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  Speaker 4: like these guys want to prove it right now, and
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  Speaker 4: so it's really hard to tell that room if you
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  Speaker 4: do Tracy j Abrams, Hey, you did all this work.
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  Speaker 4: You know, showed up five hours early and did really
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  Speaker 4: diligent work before the game, and you know, we loved
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  Speaker 4: everything you've done. And also we're trading the second best
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  Speaker 4: player the game. So as the team tries to navigate
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  Speaker 4: these discussions and thoughts over the next month or so,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of it will be contingent on the record.
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  Speaker 4: But I think more than it would have you even
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  Speaker 4: expected at the start of the season, that's gonna you know,
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  Speaker 4: hinge on what has happened in that room and how
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  Speaker 4: much work those guys had put.
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  Speaker 1: In no doubt Nationals fans will put me at the
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  Speaker 1: stake for this, But I think some of it might
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  Speaker 1: depend on the market simply. Obviously the record will depend
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  Speaker 1: on it too. But what are other teams other buyers?
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  Speaker 1: If the Nationals are leaning in a selling direction, what
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  Speaker 1: are buyers willing to pay? Is it the right time
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  Speaker 1: to make such a deal. Things like that are certainly
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  Speaker 1: things that need to be brought up into consideration, but
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  Speaker 1: We are back, Kevin. I wanted to give myself like
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  Speaker 1: a little Nationals trivia segment here to start here involving you.
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  Speaker 1: So I just wanted to test my memory. As I
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  Speaker 1: searched back in my head, I couldn't find anything confirming this,
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  Speaker 1: but could you tell everyone what your walk up song
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  Speaker 1: was in twenty fourteen with the Nationals.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember, Yeah, it's the only walk up song
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  Speaker 2: I had my entire career. So snow hailo, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm one for one in that department. Tell
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  Speaker 1: the people really quickly, why did you use as your
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  Speaker 1: walk up song? Because I love Red Hot Chili Peppers out.
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  Speaker 2: Of Chili Pepper's being one of my favorite groups and
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  Speaker 2: now part of the Classic Rock collection. Because I'm old
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  Speaker 2: compared to you guys, that song I didn't need to be.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know me. I don't need more energy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to be geeked out of my mind on
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  Speaker 2: a bat. So that song plays out, it puts me
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  Speaker 2: at ease right before the abat. So that's ultimately why.
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  Speaker 2: And I like the beginning part. I mean it's for me.
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  Speaker 2: It's fire.
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  Speaker 1: That guitar rhythm just beautiful. I do really quickly. I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about the final from Kansas City. The
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  Speaker 1: Nationals lost six to two, and Spencer you made note
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  Speaker 1: four solo shots over the course of the game. Before
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  Speaker 1: going into the start, we'd talked about, Hey, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: nothing really to be concerned about his last outing. Now
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  Speaker 1: two in a row. I wouldn't call it a blow
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  Speaker 1: up start last time out, but he just had a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of trouble putting guys away was again the case.
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  Speaker 1: But Kevin, what'd you notice from him? And just what
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  Speaker 1: didn't play in the nats favor the other day?
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  Speaker 3: I just, I mean ultimately comes down to missing middle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he fell behind accounts, they fouled him off
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  Speaker 2: and he missed middle, and they took advantage and hit
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  Speaker 2: one that was out of his own a little different
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  Speaker 2: approach than the Mariners. And the Mariners were what like
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  Speaker 2: a thirty nine swings in fifty six pitches. Uh, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't on that same pace, but you could see that
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  Speaker 2: the aggressiveness was there still against them. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: with all that has happened, is like there's chase. Now
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot more chase because guys are going up
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  Speaker 2: there hunting. It's a weird look that that you're getting
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  Speaker 2: right now from every single hitter that goes up against Actltel.
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  Speaker 2: So for him, it's just that another adjustment that he
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  Speaker 2: has to make. And what is that adjustment? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: because it seems, you know, they're all over everything, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at any point in time, Like it's almost like he's
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  Speaker 2: getting his sequencing is getting predictable. But it also isn't
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  Speaker 2: because I've I look at that stuff. I'm thinking along
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  Speaker 2: the lines of the same thing as hitters. He's not
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: throwing the same pitch back to back, right, I mean,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: maybe he should do a little bit more of that,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: but I don't. I still don't see that's being his
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: effectiveness right now. And again, if they swing, it's it's contact, really,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: is what it's coming down to.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I am him for like honestly, like fifteen to
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: twenty minutes in the Giants clubhouse a couple of weeks ago,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: kind of on this same vein where he he knows
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: who he is as a pitcher right, Like he was
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: flat out with end zone, Like I have to live
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: with that. I have to deal with that, and I
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: have to pitch around that. The fact of the matter is,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: it's really hard to pitch when you have to be
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: perfect in terms of your sequencing. You have to get
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: ahead every single time. You basically always have to throw
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: a first pitch strike. But even that becomes predictable at
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: a certain point. He even said like when he was
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: back with the Giants. This is something I know a story,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: but he and the coaches would always debate about how
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: much he could actually live in the zone.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: And they know.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: The coaches were always like, oh, you could do it
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: ninety percent of the time. He said, well, like, that's
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: that's probably too high a ball. Can I do it
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: sixty five percent of the time? Can I do it
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: seventy percent at the time. The fact of the matter
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: is he has to get ahead, but even that can
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: be troubling early in counts. So yeah, it almost feels
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: like it kind of has to be some sort of
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: stuff adjustment, which is really hard to make in season
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: and at that part of your career. So I don't
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: want to rule him figuring it out because it had
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: a era in the threes the last two years. But
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: it is a much harder adjustment to make than I
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: think it was for Michaels, where it was hey, let's
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: let's loosen you up, let's get the velocity back, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: let's you know, throw a pile of fastballs at the
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: bottom of the zone.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I think another big part of the loss the other
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: night too, is just that's going to get it going
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: against a guy that, hey, kudos to you, fits very
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: well after not pitching so well against I think it
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: was the Yankees in the outing before that, maybe Oakland,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: but he bounced back in a big way to put
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the Natspats to the rest.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: The other night, Luinder Avilla leader, there was just disgusting.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Iiving he is doing two miles an hour more on
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a slider. He was at ninety ninety one with that thing.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: That thing was absolutely filtering. Inn You know he throws
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: in a curveball that he barely threw this year. Yeah,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: he had to change it up. He changed it up.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And when you throw in ninety nine, guess what it's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: going to benefit you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Most of the time.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: What is that hard to hit?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Fran No, no, no, no, they I can't believe the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: guys could not hit him.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely not.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Just filth from him the other day. It was out
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of unexpected after his outing before that. But to finish
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: up here, one of our final things we want to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: wrap up with. I've been saying we do this a
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: few episodes ago. But Franny, I'm curious, what is your
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: favorite uniform that the Nationals wear out on the field
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Ooh, ooh, so the City Connect number two is pretty sweet.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: They they nailed it, man, they nailed number one, they
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: nailed number two. But so that's an easy one to
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: go with. But I truly think if if we're gun
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to my head on the whole thing, I still love
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the Navy tops. I still think those are sweet. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: still think those. I think we could do a little
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: bit more with our whites. I think the whites should
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: represent like the Constitution, right, so they should have that
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: old school like uh coloring on it, like a cream color.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: A big fan of the cream. That's some One of
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: my favorite unions ever wore was the Giants Home Home
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: one because cream color is pretty awesome.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Uh, you said, huh, glad you said Giants. There no
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: other team that wears cream that you were with throughout
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: your career want to bring up on this podcast at
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: least no Phillies one.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't like the Phillies one because it, uh, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: uniform actually didn't fit well. It was like a like
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the the die on it was made. Everything fit so
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: different than all the other unis. Yeah, interesting because I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like the pinstripes there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I like the cream take. I'd love for the Nationals
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: to get some cream involved on their jerseys. But what
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: about you, Spencer, which is your favorite you see the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: boys take the field in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as someone who's never played in the big leagues
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: nor has good I should say fashion advice outside.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Of outside of me neither me, neither.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: In City Connects and say, I do think it's good
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: that they brought the big lettering back on the back
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: of the jerseys. That was a rough look for so honestly,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: any anything that they.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Put on and the division pants, it got rid of
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: the division pants. You know what I mean.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I'm well aware.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I just it frustrates me. A lot of baseball fans.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I hear them say, like, I love their City Connects,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: but the old City Connects were so much better. I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: think they upgraded. I really think these ones are bad.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I think I think I think both could be said.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Both could be right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at the same time, like they made where you
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: see other organizations they don't really take chances. They're like, yeay,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: let's just kind of do the same thing ours did,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: complete opposite and it's freaking awesome.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I guess I concur people are like, oh
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I got rid of cherry blossoms. They're still there. They're
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on the hat. They're like hinted into the jersey. But
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: now there's just a little a little more going on
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: that I really enjoy. All Right, y'all, you know what
• 21:40
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• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Now, just looking for victory tonight.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I think would be awesome to kick things off a
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: great day off yesterday, it's it's Dad's weekend here for
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the boys. And I think they would love to play
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: nothing but but good baseball in front of them again.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: So I hope they do that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Kevin, you're getting in on that play. I heard there's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: gonna be some catch played on the field between the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: players and the dads. You'll you'll be out there. No, no, no,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I wish no game of catch.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: No.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Well, uh, enjoy your weather. Enjoy the weather down in Tampa.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like, but you know, DC,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: it's you can't wait.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Till brother get to screw with everybody.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Can't wait. We'll give a little updod down.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's gonna be good.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well until then, we will see you back on
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the next episode on Monday.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: See you later, m
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: H.