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Surveying Nats Fans: Positive on Direction, Negative on Ownership · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Show. I'm Yeric Shellhouse
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  Speaker 1: alongside me Kevin Franzen, the Washington Nationals insisture does bound
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  Speaker 1: the athletic guys coming high. Also high tough loss last
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  Speaker 1: night and that's now just four and thirteen at home
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to twelve and seven on the road. But Franny,
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  Speaker 1: I heard an interesting stat in the game the other night.
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  Speaker 1: This is Kid Cabali's nineteenth career.
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  Speaker 2: Big League start.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think we forget sometimes just how young
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  Speaker 1: of a player he is because he's just been around
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  Speaker 1: and people have talked about him for so long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I think that's a very accurate statement. You look
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  Speaker 4: at Cade and what he's able to do in the
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  Speaker 4: inconsistencies he has is like a young guy. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like when you watch it, he's not young technically by age,
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  Speaker 4: but by arm. Yes, I just when it hits a
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  Speaker 4: fan for him, it happens fast and it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: wild to watch because like he he had first five
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  Speaker 4: outs and eleven pitches, five outs, eleven pitches, and then
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  Speaker 4: it took another sixty five pitches to get the next what.
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  Speaker 3: Seven outs?
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  Speaker 4: So I mean it just it went from them being aggressive,
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  Speaker 4: him hitting his spots doing great things, and then where
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  Speaker 4: did it go?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Blake had even mentioned when we talked to him
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  Speaker 5: after excuse Me before the New York started, he described
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  Speaker 5: Kate as a blank canvas, and I thought that was
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  Speaker 5: a really interesting description in the sense that like, for
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  Speaker 5: as much as we think we know who he is,
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  Speaker 5: and for as much as he probably thinks he knows
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  Speaker 5: who he is, he's still learning the adjustments of Hey,
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  Speaker 5: my stuff plays this way, I read hitters this way.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's a really smart pitcher, and I think
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  Speaker 5: he'll figure it out. But we're still at the point
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  Speaker 5: in his career where like you're gonna see games like
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  Speaker 5: this where maybe the adjustment and isn't quite there as
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  Speaker 5: quick or there's just like an off night, and he'll
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  Speaker 5: he'll need to learn how to handle those, and I
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  Speaker 5: have confidence that he will. But yeah, especially when that
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  Speaker 5: when the breaking stuff doesn't land in the zone and
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  Speaker 5: he doesn't have commanded that the fastball gets hit pretty hard,
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  Speaker 5: and so I think that's probably also the next adjustment
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  Speaker 5: for him, at least that's my call.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Franny, you had a good one on the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: last night. That they were just attacking very quickly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two straight games for kid with two strikeouts or at
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  Speaker 1: least ten strikeouts. And they certainly had a game plan
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  Speaker 1: last night. It was to get after him early.
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  Speaker 4: And whether or not that was the game plan, we
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  Speaker 4: don't know, right Like, that's that's the whole thing. But
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  Speaker 4: if I saw a guy that had you know, twenty
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  Speaker 4: punch in two games, I look at it going, I
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  Speaker 4: can't let him get ahead. I can't and from the
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  Speaker 4: from the get go, because the breaking ball is real,
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  Speaker 4: right Like, we know that, and it's one of those
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  Speaker 4: that if he's landing you have, you're gonna have a
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  Speaker 4: tough time. But early in the games, I feel like,
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  Speaker 4: here's the other part of it right where I'm big
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  Speaker 4: in not using everything early on.
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  Speaker 3: Some people are like, well, just let it, let.
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  Speaker 4: It eat from the beginning, because that's you know, you
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  Speaker 4: never know how long you have and you save pitches.
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  Speaker 4: And he was able to do that against the Mets,
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  Speaker 4: right like he was able to save that curveball till
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  Speaker 4: the number nine hit are running. Mauricio, Well, last night
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  Speaker 4: told me a lot different. Last night told me they
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  Speaker 4: were not looking for the curveball at all. They were
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  Speaker 4: just going if I see, how do I hit the curveball,
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  Speaker 4: I don't miss the fastball. That's what they were doing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And I think that that was a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good plan with it. And you know, when you execute
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  Speaker 4: and one of the first, you know, curveballs that you
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  Speaker 4: rip off is right in the leg of Cody Clemens,
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  Speaker 4: I think it it kind of goes to the point of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, everybody else they know.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to come with his curveball. He's not
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  Speaker 3: confident with it yet.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know, it just seemed like they were
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  Speaker 4: so aggressive early on, knowing that he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: in zone early, just because that's what k has shown
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  Speaker 4: and done. Yeah, it just they hammered him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, give her viewers online a look at last night's
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  Speaker 1: pitching box score one time and only six runs, three
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  Speaker 1: of them earned. But you know, that's always an interesting
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  Speaker 1: case for me. When the pitcher commits the air is
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  Speaker 1: it is it really an unearned run? And you got
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  Speaker 1: to look at the right.
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  Speaker 2: I would call that an earned run in my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: But in that play too, like going to his left,
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  Speaker 4: like he's so athletic and he knows he can make
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  Speaker 4: that play. But it's not the right play in that
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  Speaker 4: moment because it's like, if you're gonna have he would
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  Speaker 4: have to either backhand, flip it or throw it with
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  Speaker 4: his glove to get it there, you know, to home.
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  Speaker 4: It'd be like a middle Get the out of first.
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  Speaker 4: Just get the out of first. That's a that's the
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  Speaker 4: main thing. You're playing outs right there. Just get the outs.
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  Speaker 4: You can make up ground, especially with how poor the
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  Speaker 4: Twins bullpen has been this year.
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  Speaker 3: You keep it somewhat close. I mean, you have a.
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  Speaker 1: Chance, and the Nats rotating bullpen carousel just just continues.
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  Speaker 1: Andre Ganilo is sent down last night. Jackson Rutledge designated
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  Speaker 1: for assignment to open up spot for Max Cranic signing
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  Speaker 1: to become official with the one one in a Club
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  Speaker 1: option for twenty twenty seven. Spencer, you sent out this
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  Speaker 1: sweet the other day. This isn't a guy that the
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  Speaker 1: Nats are expecting to be a part of the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: immediately or overnight. But what can you tell us about
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  Speaker 1: him and what we might expect to see him?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not a ton of new info there, so
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to speculate too much. I guess what
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  Speaker 5: i'd say is he threw pretty hard in kind of
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  Speaker 5: a showcase practice sort of situation tryout, but they still
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  Speaker 5: don't necessarily see him joining the team. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: within the next few weeks or so. Now, again, this
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  Speaker 5: is all subject to change, but it's another guy where
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  Speaker 5: you're just you're kind of banking on the stuff to
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  Speaker 5: carry you pretty far and the little bit of a
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  Speaker 5: big league track record, where again, almost everyone else in
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  Speaker 5: the bullpen really hasn't done it for an extended stretch before.
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  Speaker 5: I think I don't really have a whole lot more
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  Speaker 5: on that front, but for me, it's again it's a
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  Speaker 5: it's another pitcher who's you know, gonna get a shot,
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  Speaker 5: and that's ultimately what the season is about. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm interested to see once he joins, if he's able
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  Speaker 5: to pump ninety five ninety six like it was last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what's exciting to me about at least
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  Speaker 1: to me, Franny, I'm curious or your thoughts. Is like
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  Speaker 1: a club option there tells me the team really believes
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  Speaker 1: in the stuff here, and regardless if it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be this season or next, they see him being a
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  Speaker 1: guy that can really contribute to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: One way or the other.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because those those deals are so different too, right,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, arbitration eligible all this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he would be, would he. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's got three years of service, so maybe he would.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe might be wrong, maybe you would.
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  Speaker 4: But so the whole thing is, anyway you're giving this
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  Speaker 4: guy shot, You're trying to build up as many arms and.
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  Speaker 3: And chances as you can. That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's the you know, Mike to Barlow really started started
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  Speaker 4: this trend with the Nats last year, taking chances and
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  Speaker 4: and and going and you know, taking shots on guys
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  Speaker 4: off the waiver wire, right like. And then then you
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  Speaker 4: have this opportunity where a guy is a free agent
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  Speaker 4: to sign, why not take the chance?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you need to find.
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  Speaker 4: Arms and and maybe at the same time rest not
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  Speaker 4: even rest save some of your very own arms within
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  Speaker 4: the the system, you know, from rushing them up there
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  Speaker 4: and and and using the bullets when they don't need
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  Speaker 4: to be used yet here in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I I was just pulling up
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  Speaker 5: on fangrass right now, the bullpen right now. Gusvarland, Waivers,
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  Speaker 5: PJ Poolin Waivers love Lady purchased off New York Schultz Waivers.
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  Speaker 5: Grenello was, you know, not gonna be on the Cardinals
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  Speaker 5: forty min so they traded for him. It's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of guys where other orgs have given up on them,
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  Speaker 5: and the Nats have said, hey, we trust our infrastructure
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  Speaker 5: now and we trust the ability to give these guys chances, right,
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of these And that's the most interesting
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  Speaker 5: thing about picking up bullpen arms is I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to say it's as simple as they're always one tweak away,
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  Speaker 5: but that's kind of how I think of it, where like,
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  Speaker 5: if you can add one more pitch these guys and
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  Speaker 5: they're so volatile that like you can probably get a
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  Speaker 5: good twenty innings stretch out it, Like I don't know
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  Speaker 5: for me, that's where waivers are most useful. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that's where in years past you probably suld of
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  Speaker 5: seeing the Nets doing it more. And I think it's
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  Speaker 5: really encouraging that they're keeping that up.
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  Speaker 3: On the season.
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  Speaker 1: I think one hundred percent of one play I do
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  Speaker 1: want to highlight from last night's game was the Nets
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  Speaker 1: did strike first in the bottom of the first inning
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  Speaker 1: and daleen Lyle had some phenomenal base running. Those of
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  Speaker 1: you watching online didn't hesitate for a second, and that
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  Speaker 1: speed of his just deadly able to beat it out
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  Speaker 1: and get us on a up to when early one
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  Speaker 1: nothing late as he disappears and gravitates.
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  Speaker 3: Where did he go?
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  Speaker 2: He just disappears.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Franny Ivy, I mean you had a great
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  Speaker 1: call that on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Don't walk in that area today. I might get swallowed
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  Speaker 3: out the camera.
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  Speaker 2: Well might just mount you up like a sand pit.
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  Speaker 1: Quick stand over there. But off the third days, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that that was a contact play. I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of shocked that Twins had the infield in in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the first inning, But maybe that just was
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  Speaker 1: a respect to Kamali in the way he's been pitching lately.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you see on that play?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think a lot goes. It's a little different
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  Speaker 4: too now with infield in because there's either guys that
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  Speaker 4: you know, hit ball over the outfield, you know, into
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  Speaker 4: the outfield a lot, or they are ground balls and
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  Speaker 4: they're they're softly hit ground balls with splitters, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: you get a guy that has a good four seamer
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  Speaker 4: in TODs Bradley yesterday, you take the chance, so I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't surprised they were in on that.
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  Speaker 3: What I will say is watching guys practices.
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  Speaker 4: Before games has not been the norm, and they're out there,
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  Speaker 4: they're working on contact play, the timing of it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: making sure the hot It was twenty twenty when you
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  Speaker 4: know against Dodgers, Rays and Mookie Betts had two in
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  Speaker 4: the series, and they highlighted it, and I'm like, beautiful,
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  Speaker 4: this is beautiful because like what.
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  Speaker 3: He did was.
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  Speaker 4: He gained his ground, but as Dalen did, you're up
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  Speaker 4: in the air landing at the same time that ball
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  Speaker 4: was supposed to be across home plate and right at
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  Speaker 4: his contact he was off.
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  Speaker 3: It was no hesitation. Like you think about that play
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 4: If IKF had done any semblance of that, Blue Jays
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  Speaker 4: would have been World champions.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not even talking about walking down. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: like being ready to go, like he didn't go until
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  Speaker 4: ball was passed. The picture Dalen was off you could
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  Speaker 4: see like replays. I stopped it on the ISO afterwards
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  Speaker 4: for myself because I wanted to see it. The ball
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  Speaker 4: was on the ground and he was off stop and
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  Speaker 4: that to me is it.
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  Speaker 3: That's everything. And you know, it.
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  Speaker 4: Shows how perfect you have to be with your throat.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Keishaw was was great on that. But he
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  Speaker 4: threw it to the left handed batter's box, right just
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  Speaker 4: to the right side of home plate. Next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's the opening that you can get on the on
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  Speaker 4: the left side. But Dalen had a fantastic read on that,
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  Speaker 4: not even read it, just anticipation.
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  Speaker 3: However, let's just say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the anticipation.
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  Speaker 1: It reminded me a little bit of the Sunday Night
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Bryce play, the pickoff play. He's coming home like,
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  Speaker 1: just no hesitation.
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  Speaker 3: You can't you can't hesitate. You gotta be confident in
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  Speaker 3: what you prepare, prepare to do.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, in that case, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just a contact play.
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  Speaker 3: Better be you know, ball on ground, see see the angle.
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  Speaker 3: Next thing you know, you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was exciting play and got on Nats off
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  Speaker 1: to a hot start. But of course that was not
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  Speaker 1: the way it crumbled last night. We're gonna take it.
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  Speaker 3: Really quick.
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  Speaker 4: I think the next play is the one that matters
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  Speaker 4: of the whole game, and it's the strikeout of Jacob Young. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you get these you get these opportunities in
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  Speaker 4: the first inning with runners at third fewer than two,
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  Speaker 4: you got to get those guys in, especially in the
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  Speaker 4: first There's something about getting that the crooked number going
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  Speaker 4: in that first inning, one run game whatever to run.
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  Speaker 4: The manager on the other side is think about the
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  Speaker 4: thinking about things differently seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the base runners in the second they had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to respond to in a two to one game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's now, as I said earlier, just four and
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  Speaker 1: thirteen at home as opposed to twelve and seven on
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  Speaker 1: the road. And I think it's one in four in
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  Speaker 1: the first game of the series at home. Yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: struggling in series openers at home. But we're going to
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break when we come back. Spencer put
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  Speaker 1: Alrighty, we are back as we were discussing right before
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  Speaker 1: the break. Spencer, you put out a survey the other
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  Speaker 1: day and eighty percent of Nationals fans believe that the
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  Speaker 1: Learners should sell the team.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious, you know, what do you make of this?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, these were about the numbers I expect, but
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  Speaker 5: it's still a little staggering to see.
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  Speaker 3: That actual response.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll also give the caveat that this is eighty
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  Speaker 5: percent of readers it's impossible to pull like every Nats
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  Speaker 5: fan casual to die hard. What I make of it
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  Speaker 5: is that fans are frankly sick of the team not
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  Speaker 5: investing in big league payroll. I think frankly that's the
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  Speaker 5: biggest aspect of it, and they're tired of the losses.
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  Speaker 5: You'll hear a lot of complaints from fans, whether it's
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  Speaker 5: like walking around Nats Park or on social media or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: and I think so many of them are a good
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  Speaker 5: amount or about you know, maybe the cost of attending
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  Speaker 5: game or things like that, but so much of it is, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we want more money spent on the on field product,
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  Speaker 5: and we're all. I'll give maybe the ownership groups some
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  Speaker 5: grace is that it's hard to look at what the
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: projections were coming into the season and say, hey, we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna spend on big league payroll instead of we're going
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  Speaker 5: to spend on the behind the scenes stuff that will
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  Speaker 5: help us for years down the line. And I think
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: they actually did spend a lot of that stuff in
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  Speaker 5: terms of spending on coaching at the player development level,
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  Speaker 5: spending on you know, getting more people in the front office,
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  Speaker 5: modernizing things, adding technology, all that stuff. While it's probably overdue.
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  Speaker 5: I do think they deserve maybe some credit for doing
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  Speaker 5: that this offseason, but so much of it is Hey,
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  Speaker 5: like fans are sick of watching a team that hasn't
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  Speaker 5: won more than seventy one games since the World Series,
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  Speaker 5: hasn't spent big on a guy in a long time,
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  Speaker 5: and spent you know, they paid zacly Tel, Miles, Michael List,
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  Speaker 5: and Foster Griffin this offseason, and that was basically it.
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  Speaker 5: I think they look at this as a roster that
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  Speaker 5: should get rein forced with a large enough fan base
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  Speaker 5: and a large enough market, but you should be spending
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  Speaker 5: that money getting veterans around these guys. But Jason Worth
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  Speaker 5: deal always gets brought up, like I think it. You know,
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  Speaker 5: however you might view that deal, I think it's absolutely
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  Speaker 5: valuable to get another VET in there, and I think
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  Speaker 5: they blame ownership for that more than anyone else. So
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: while I don't necessarily know that I'm surprised by the results,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I absolutely think that it's meaningful in the sense that
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: that's where fans frustrations lie the most. So yeah, I'm
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: curious maybe a year ago if you would have seen
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: the same answers, But yeah, right now that that kind
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: of is where the pulse of the fan base is at.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Another one that you had here was you know, how
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: does your overall confidence in the organization compared to how
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: you felt at this time last year? And a lot
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: of people are feeling optimistic, as you can see from
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the results there. But this one was also really interesting
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: to me. What should the Nationals acquire at the trade deadline?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: We've talked about this on the show a little bit,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and obviously the trade deadline is a long way away,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: but most Gnats fans said, hey, we need veteran pitching
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: on this staff, and Franny, you know, we've had other
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: thoughts on that before that they're not necessarily gonna be
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: buyers at this deadline. And one of the results there
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that I probably would have selected as a Nats fan
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: is bolstering the prospects. Do you kind of feel like
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: they're going to be in the same position here at
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the deadline?
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, uh, you tried it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Part of this is deconditioning the fan a little bit,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: right from the old ways and the thought processes in
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: like one week of hot you know, baseball in the
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: in the farm system by a prospect doesn't mean you
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: get called up to another level like master stuff. We
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: haven't seen people master a you know, our league in years.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: You know, anytime.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Anybody's got hit, it's like movem up, move up, moom up. Well,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: same thing goes here. You gotta get into the way
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: of what Paul to Pony and Devin Pearson and Justin
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Horwitz are are going about this in the player developments
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: that with Annie, right, is like these guys need to
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: get better. They're they're hitting their you know, thresholds for now,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: but we need to continue that on and keep getting them.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: That's true development, right.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: It's not about just get hot and then next thing
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: you know, you're up in the next level.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: No master things.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: You got to master what we're trying to get you
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: to do and hit our goals. I think the same
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: thing goes when it you know, think about like these
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: type of things like why would you want to start
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: a veteran starting pitcher right now?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Like what is the point?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Like tell me the true point, like because that's how
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: it used to be. Like to me, that's where the
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: fan needs to understand that there is a new thought
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: process and it is it is right to have your thought.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: But also.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Be a little bit understanding that things are going to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: be different and it's going to take some time on
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: certain things.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I get the frustration part, but we also have to
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: understand that like there's a there's a process, there is
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: a direction. We are seeing the direction. We were definitely
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: seeing the direction on the Bigley side, but like even
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Miley sided with almost six hundred WINNI percentage.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: As a whole, which is insane.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's things that are happening, and just stick with it,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: and it's a it's a part of it. You get,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: you rush it and you do you know, you go
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: after a veteran starter in during the traded line for
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: what what reason?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah that ultimately, Yeah, Well the thing is, and I
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: don't blame fans in any sort of sense because again,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: I know it's been hard to watch a team win
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: sixty six seventy one games year after year. But I
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: think when you think big picture, that gets you what
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: maybe two or three extra wins in a second half
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: where you're probably already out of it, and yes, you
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: maybe see slightly more compelling baseball, but you're you're never
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: really exactly sure what you're going to get out of
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: a guy whereas when you take maybe the longer approach,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: and yet it might sting to do that, you're setting
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: yourself up more for twenty twenty eight to twenty thirty
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: eight as opposed to twenty twenty six to twenty twenty eight.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: And much like Franny, you know, like it might seem
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: like for a few seconds something goes away or you
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: you know, you just you feel like you're.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe just trying to help you out in the short term.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you might miss something in the short term, but
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: over the long haul, you're really setting yourself up where
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: you know, I know it's hard to think about twenty
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: thirty one, but like you might acquire a couple of
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: prospects who are the same caliber of big league starter
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: then as opposed to getting one for a few months
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: and then letting things go. So again, while I understand
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: the fan perspective, that's kind of my thought process throughout
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: all of that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the final question in that survey that was really
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: interesting to me too. He was if you were allowed
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to put one twenty twenty five free agent and their contract,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: which you included there, who would you pick? And most
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: people obviously gravit toward it towards the starting pitching department,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Dylan Cees, Ranger Swarez, and Framer Valdez the top results
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and then Pete Alonzo and that was surprising, kind of
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: surprising to me with the results he's been having this.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Where would you have gone, Spencer.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have gone cease, But honestly, and this
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: is one where I don't even know if I'm right.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: But on the position player side, I think Schwarbro would
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: have been a really interesting one.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: That was mine, that would be my number one, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: it walked me through that.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Uh, it gives you that adult in the room that
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: we're we've been talking about.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And plus the five year deal.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: A one year deal for a veteran player doesn't do
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: much for a voice.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: We've talked about this a lot on air, and it
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: is one that you want.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: You look, Schwerber wouldn't have come back, not because he
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: didn't like watching him. He wants to win, right like
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: in the moment, but like you want to see something built,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you got to have people to show the way and
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: lead the way, and someone that could be a leader.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: With Blake and his coaching staff, now we have found
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: out that guys are listening.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Number one, right like that's there's no problem on that.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: But you just sent someone that is so confident what
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: he does and the plan he has, and it could
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: set the tone for so many different things. That's what
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: you need, you know, at the end of the day,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: there's too many young guys that are having to be
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: leaders that aren't leaders yet. You can become a leader
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: over time. And I feel like he would have solidified
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: that well hardly. But all the other ones, I'm gonna
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: be honest, I wouldn't have done anyways, not with not
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: with what the direction is of this friend.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: There's a direction. He is the only.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: One I would have deviated a little bit from and
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: gone there because of the direction and the help and
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: what he could have done offensively too, I think would
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: be a huge help too.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: James would yeah, especially I think if he was a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: right handed bat. I obviously we know he's not, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: he can hit lefties quite well. But the one thing
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: this offense I think is lacking right now is that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: big power bat from the right side. And if if
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: there was just a way that they could carb and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: copy that player and make him a right handed hitter,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: if they can get.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Ahead of out technology.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: But James Wood He's got some serious pop this play
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: last night, Frandy, you had a great call of it
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in the booth. You look at the trajectory right here
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: for those of you watching online, that really looks like
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a home run.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: James slows up but saying it wha wait.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Then he realizes, wait, they're not calling this out, Like
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: what an interesting play?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: You said? He hit it too hard for the ball
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: to get out.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: You think about so ball was one twelve off the
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: bat and this is and I want like people think, oh,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: you're just joker treaming.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I was like, no, I'm not.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Like balls that usually hit off that wall aren't hit
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: at that.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: That's that pace.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: So you see the ball indense into the to the
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: padding and then just catapults out because it was hit
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: so hard. You think the software it goes it might
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: like actually hit and bounce over right, but it actually
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: gave because he hit so hard, it gave and just
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: went popped out. And it was like, damn, like I
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: watching him hit a.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Ball like that, though it is so beautiful.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I think opposing I know for a fact, I don't
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: think I know opposing managers and all they hate that
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: kind of thing, but they also marvel at it. Derek
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Shelton being one of them. He's like, damn, that ball
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: was smoked right, Like that was a beautiful thing, because
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: you just love when guys can can swore something up
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: going that way. I just watching it in slow motion
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: and seeing that the fence just give and then pop out,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Wow, he did hit it too hard.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: That's that's hitting it too perfect.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: It's one of the most interesting replay reviews I've ever
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: seen because you watch it in live speed and you're like, oh, yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it kicked off the back carem there like right behind
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the flowers, and the more you slow it down, you're like, wait, no,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the frames.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Because the fact that they did injected that hard.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like that's the part that like baffles me though,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: because like that's it should have just like hit and
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: kind of like died down.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: But it like, yeah, it was that was that was wild. Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I was never very good at physics, but that one
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: surprised me.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I don't know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, Spencer, what I h what what did you
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: see up in the press fox? Because I mean the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: ball is way above Like I did you just think
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: too quickly?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. I mean it looked out.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I'll say that is that I And this is funny.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: I was talking to Grant Paulson, I think on the
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: first hard hit James fly out, and he said, oh,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: he's due, he'll get you. You know, you've seen James do
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: this before where he misses the barrel by like three
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: centimeters and then one goes out and I think a
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: strikeout might have followed. And then he made that contact
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: as soon as he hit it. I was already inclined
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: to I was started typing up my tweet James Wood
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: home run number eleven or whatever it is. It's one
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: of those balls that you think just goes out. You
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: hear it, you think it goes out. Yeah, he's just
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: too strong. I don't know what's sick like, Yeah, next
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: time I'm getting the air Moore.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: James and reminded me like a Desi home run back
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: in the day too, like those low line drive home
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: runs that Desmond could just shoot out.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I'm like that, Wait, you know what's crazy?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Like that? You think that?
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Like Baron Buckson hit his eleven last night and his
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: was at one O three at forty one degrees right
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: last night was one twelve. I think at twenty three
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: or twenty Yeah, something like that. I mean, and that
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: one doesn't go out.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You're like.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe in July even the air gets a little warmer.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I after this, after this Denver
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: thing that's going on with their games, and how much
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: snow they've gotten here in May, like you talk about
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: like a subdued like sie go to my ole party
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: out there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, wrong at all.
• 27:05
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• 27:31
  Speaker 1: close last night, but Franny, who do you think is
• 27:34
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• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Ooh Bailey over on the mount. Uh. You know I'm
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: gonna go. It's gonna be a crazy one.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: C J Abrams c J Abras that is up there.
• 27:52
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• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Spencer. You got any picks for tonight?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll pick the easy one.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: I think we've seen James come up just short of
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: homer before and then follow with whatever three and five games.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna play the percentages on this one and not
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: try to overthink it like Franny.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, how many homers of CJ hit this year?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Only eight?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Like, come on, I was just trying to like get
• 28:14
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• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, CJ is an excellent pick, but I think,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: like you said, play the numbers, James is due. He
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: was hitting all those home runs on pace for what
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: like fifty plus and then it's been what ten game
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: homerless drought here.
• 28:27
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• 29:03
  Speaker 2: All right, and we are back.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Guys got the Twins for two more and I think
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: we're even up identical records now right, both sixteen and twenty.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I believe that should be the Twins.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: By the way, Todds Bradley is filthy.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say I should have this is a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Nats podcast, but I could have put some Todge Bradley's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: stats in here today. I mean, that was slicing and DIY.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have one to understand.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's the easy one to understand, like when
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: someone struggles or like you just just watch that out
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: and you'll you'll get it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: You had a great call last night. You said, I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: think he might be leading the league in foul balls?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Was it? Is it?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Or was I that was?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: That? Was?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: That was nos too?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Or two strike foul balls and dods Just having that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: crazy about you said two strike foul balls because because.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: This stuff is so gross, man Like, that's the part
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: that you watch with guys like this and you're like,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: how is it? Because look we saw it with Mackenzie,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Like the nastier you are, the hard is a square
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: up and it's like you don't have like, I don't
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: know it. He just he's he's had two unbelievable starts
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: against the Nats and in his last two dating back
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: to twenty four So I mean it's what nineteen twenty
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: strikeouts in eleven innings something like that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the dude's gross, filthy stuff. I would not want
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to get in the box against him.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Pretty good trade for them, I would say, I.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Think it's gonna work out all right, quite all right
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: for them. But Spencer, you know what, do you think
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the Keys are going to be tonight? Obviously the Twins
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: have those power bats, But you know what will the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Nats seem to do right in the next two to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: try and pick up at least one game here and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: potentially get to and win the series.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more of what we were talking about before
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: in terms of keeping the name close and hoping that
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: in the final innings, you can break through.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Beyond that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Again, I think I want to see the let's say Dalen.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: I think that Dalen has had some good at bats
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: the last couple of games, and the Nats have kind
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: of missed having a third and four guy in the
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: lineup who can do damage over the last two weeks
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: or so. I think if Dalen and maybe one other
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: guy Curtis has also played well, if those guys can
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: give you a lift that maybe you haven't gotten over
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: the last couple of weeks, and you can make this
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: a five, three or even a six or four game
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: heading into the sixth inning, I think you're perfectly comfortable
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: as the Nats closing this one out or even getting
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: on top of if you're trailing. So yeah, I'll be
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: watching Dalen pretty closely tonight and see if that success
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: can move forward, because again, the Nats have struggled against
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: right handed pitching this year, which is not something I
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: would have expected, and so if they can beat up
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: on a rity, and if Dalen can do it in particular,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: I'll be very encouraged.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Franny, I want to get your thoughts too, but I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: have a feeling I don't want to speak on your behalf.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: But I know how this might start taking care of
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the baseball, especially after last night we got a field.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's usually number one. But I would I
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: would go right with Spence on this one.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I think Dalen Is is a bigger need for him
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: to get going, uh, because of his athleticism, not only
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: like just his great bat right, like his ability to
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: drive the ball, to hit just hit in general. But
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: you add his speed on the bases and and and
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: you know, yes, he gets thrown out a few times
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: here and there, but I don't care. He's got chaos.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Chaos is involved with him when he's on there, and
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: he needs he needs to be there. And in adding that,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: we saw like we're seeing it with Nas, we're seeing
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: it with CJ.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: The more that they're on, the more chaos.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of good things that happen with those guys,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: especially on bass.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, chaos on.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: The base paths often creates good things. In my opinion,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: my call is just going to be Curtis Mead, stay hot,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Curtis Meat. As we know, Luis Garcia is still day
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to day with a minor right hand wrist brain nothing.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Two theories going on there but he had a great
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: game last night, Mead that is, and I'd love to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: see him do it again. So stay hot there anything
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you guys want to add before we take off.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: No, he's been a surprise that I don't even a surprise.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: I've known him since he was in Philly before the
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Philly has traded him for Christopher Sanchez, and uh, the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: same guy. Guy competes, man, that guy competes. There's a
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: lot of guys on like now, I'm not gonna say
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: it's actually surprising me. There's a lot of guys that
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: compete on this team, and I know people don't see
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: it because it wins and losses on certain things. The
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Abats are a hell of a lot better than they've
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: been and they fight and they keep going and that's
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: a good thing.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Good to happen.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's guys who have either had to fight
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: for a roster spot or who have to fight to
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: make sure that the Nats aren't seen as a secondary
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: rebuilding too. Like, I think all this stuff is on
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: their shoulders, and I think they're you know the fact
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: that they're doing it now is great. If they're doing
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: it in August and September as well, I mean that's
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: you could see a surprising Nats team this year, That's
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: all I say.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I like the term professional hitter. Curtis
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: just that that base knock professional hitting right there. But
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we'll be back on Friday recapping the rest of the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Twins series and previous the rest of the home stand.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Until then, you guys, have fun at the ballpark tonight
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and we'll see you in the next one.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Peace.