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Can the Nationals fix their bullpen? · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast and happy All
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  Speaker 1: Star Week to all of our listeners. I'm Eric Shellhouse
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  Speaker 1: from the Bat Boys and joining me today Spencer Nusbaum
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  Speaker 1: of The Athletic. It was not an incredible series for
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals. They tried something new on Sunday Andrew Alvarez
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  Speaker 1: came out of the bullpen, but it was not successful.
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  Speaker 1: The Nationals held elite in all three of these games
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  Speaker 1: into the seventh inning or later, but Ben Rice was
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  Speaker 1: the one who delivered the go ahead triple in yesterday's game.
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Cruz did a great job tracking it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: really see it on the play there, but really quickly
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts, Spencer on the entire series. The entire just
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  Speaker 1: a disaster for the Nationals all around, reminiscent of the
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  Speaker 1: Philly Series. But what you see at the ballpark over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting, right where you come out of Game
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  Speaker 2: one and you say, man, why is Blake leaning so
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  Speaker 2: heavily on platoon matchups even though that's something I've you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of defended for the large part of the season.
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  Speaker 2: And then they he tries something new the next day
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  Speaker 2: where he puts in his two best relievers in the
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  Speaker 2: eighth inning. That doesn't work either, and so he tries
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  Speaker 2: yet another new thing which he usually wouldn't be able
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  Speaker 2: to do, and that's putting Andrew Elverarez in in the
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  Speaker 2: ninth and that didn't work either. It really kind of
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  Speaker 2: does go to show you that, you know, really, for
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  Speaker 2: lack of better words, this this wasn't a bullpen that
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  Speaker 2: was constructed to bring this team to October. We talked
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  Speaker 2: to Paul Tabonie actually about this a little bit the
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  Speaker 2: other day, and he had mentioned like his his making
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  Speaker 2: during the off season, one which again I think I
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  Speaker 2: would still defend given what the Nationals were supposed to be,
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  Speaker 2: but has has kept him thinking a long time, just
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the fact that he spent so much
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  Speaker 2: on the behind the scenes stuff and you know, really
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  Speaker 2: focused his big league payroll on starting pitching, where what's
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  Speaker 2: often blown them games is relief pitching. I have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other thoughts on this, and I'll kind of
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  Speaker 2: keep it concise here, but I'd say that the main
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  Speaker 2: thing that I've kind of been looking at and that
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about over the course of the season is
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  Speaker 2: just the lack of stuff in this bullpen. We can
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  Speaker 2: talk about experiences, we can talk about matchups all we want,
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  Speaker 2: but if you look at on fan Grass and I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably write about this, and if you look at stuff
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  Speaker 2: plus metrics and just like how nasty the stuff is
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  Speaker 2: that these guys are throwing, Like, go do yourself a favorite,
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  Speaker 2: go to the Brewers, select Brewers, left stuff plus, and
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  Speaker 2: it's all, you know, one hundred is league average. It's
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  Speaker 2: like one thirty, one twenty. Almost every single person in
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  Speaker 2: there is at least in ninety seven. If you go
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  Speaker 2: over to the Nationals almost everyone is like below one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: You have a handful of guys, even Clayton Beater, who's
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  Speaker 2: had pretty good stuff, and you know last year had
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  Speaker 2: really good stuff. Is that a ninety nine? So it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to compete when you have a bullpen with that
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  Speaker 2: sort of stuff. And I think, you know, you can
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  Speaker 2: try to make all the tweaks you want and they'll
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  Speaker 2: keep searching, but it's going to be really hard for
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  Speaker 2: this bullpen to turn it around at some point this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone's saying, oh, the Nationals aren't trying to
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  Speaker 1: do things that combat this. Oh, that's not the tweet.
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  Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, that is the tweet. I was attempting
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  Speaker 1: to bring up the Nationals designated Matt Crook for assignment
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  Speaker 1: following Friday Night's loss, and you and me were both
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse there. He took it off the chin,
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  Speaker 1: an absolute professional. But the rotating carousel just continues for
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  Speaker 1: this Nationals bullpen and for the fans. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear this whole Oh, we're not trying. Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: just need someone to add to this bullpen. Paul to Pony,
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  Speaker 1: Blakey Tira. They're working with what they've got right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it just seems like nobody can have the stuff
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  Speaker 1: down there in the bullpen. Like you said, the swing
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  Speaker 1: and miss stuff is just seems to be what they're missing.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anyone you think of at the deadline right
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  Speaker 1: now coming up that you're like, man, this is someone
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  Speaker 1: I want the Nationals to grab.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question. Honestly, the larger curiosity for
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  Speaker 2: me at this point is whether it's worth doing that. Right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you find yourself one game under five hundred in a
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  Speaker 2: loaded National league where the path to the postseason is
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  Speaker 2: really really narrow, and I get they've been the best
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  Speaker 2: offense in baseball, there is still enough time to go
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  Speaker 2: on a run. But you get to the point in
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  Speaker 2: mid July where the margins are so thin that you wonder, hey,
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  Speaker 2: is it worth going after like a I'm just throwing
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  Speaker 2: a name out there, like a Seth Halverson o the Rockies,
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  Speaker 2: who has a really nasty fastball, Maybe a guy that
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  Speaker 2: you can fix or turn around, going after some of
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  Speaker 2: these guys with control who are gonna cost some guys
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  Speaker 2: in your farm, Or is it worth saying, Hey, let's
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  Speaker 2: be honest about where we're at right now. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Even with Howard's Lion they've been this year, they haven't
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  Speaker 2: been able to go on some sort of extended stretch
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  Speaker 2: where they win ten of eleven or fifteen and eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to see them making that sort of push
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  Speaker 2: with just how many arms they would need to compete
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  Speaker 2: in the bullpen. And so I think there are some
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  Speaker 2: intriguing options, and I think they will look, especially if
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  Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks are really really strong. Like
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that they've made a final decision, but
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  Speaker 2: I do wonder if they start to deviate in the
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  Speaker 2: other direction because of how the last weaker show's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to jump into another subject really quickly, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: you wrote an incredible piece the other day on the
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  Speaker 1: mother of Den and Fitzgerald. It's making its rounds on
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  Speaker 1: the internet, but really quickly for any of our listeners
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  Speaker 1: that haven't read that story, if you can bring it
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  Speaker 1: into the quickest crux that you can and summarize it.
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  Speaker 1: But just an incredible piece. And I can't recommend that
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  Speaker 1: people check that out enough, but please share.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. I'll be as quick as I can.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Fifth Girlds are a massive baseball family, famous high school
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  Speaker 2: baseball coach, too big league prospects, one of whom Devin
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  Speaker 2: was traded to the Nationals this offseason, is now a
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  Speaker 2: top one hundred prospect on most sites. And their mom, Colleen,
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  Speaker 2: I should say Devon's mom. Colleen was diagnosed with an
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  Speaker 2: aggressive form of brain cancer in December after having a
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  Speaker 2: seizure in November. And so I wrote a lot about
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  Speaker 2: how the family is kind of leaning on one another
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  Speaker 2: to get through this. If you talk to Devan, and
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  Speaker 2: if you watch Devan, it's it's so clear how much
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  Speaker 2: of an embodiment of his the rest of his family
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  Speaker 2: he is, Like I kind of wrote a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about this in the story, but like as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Lozarda who played at the same high school years before, said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was always this kid who like hopped
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  Speaker 2: the fence and like wanted to take ground balls with
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  Speaker 2: all of us. He was like, it was exactly like
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  Speaker 2: his brother, his older brother. And then you talk about, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I talked to people were saying, like area
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  Speaker 2: scouts in the area, there was always this kid that
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  Speaker 2: like ran over and grabbed the radar gun like it
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  Speaker 2: it was you know, Devin, because it was exactly like
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  Speaker 2: his dad. And there were so many elements where he
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  Speaker 2: was exactly like his mom, just in terms of his
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  Speaker 2: kind of approach to life, the way that he described
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  Speaker 2: as like an OCD factor, but all these things that
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  Speaker 2: are honestly getting him through this right now and what's
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  Speaker 2: been a very challenging season. And yeah, just just wrote
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  Speaker 2: a lot about how much seeing him play manners to
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  Speaker 2: his mom and how much she matters to him. And
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  Speaker 2: so I recommend anyone to check it out if they can.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely just incredible work. I want to give you a
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  Speaker 1: that out. Just incredible work by Spencer and another national
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  Speaker 1: is joining the All Star Game, Foster Griffin, a much
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  Speaker 1: deserved selection on his behalf Spencer, Your reaction, your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on that. Obviously we knew he deserved to be there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's awesome to see him get that selection.
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  Speaker 2: It's very full deserved and it's funny. We talked to
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  Speaker 2: Foster about twenty minutes after it happened, or I should
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  Speaker 2: say after he found out about it, and he he
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  Speaker 2: had made some sort of comment about how, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he obviously recognized the perseverance and the time overseas and
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  Speaker 2: how all of that made him the pitcherius today and
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  Speaker 2: searching for answers and whatnot. And I asked him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what is what is the lesson in all of that?
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  Speaker 2: Like what what do you take away from this? He
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  Speaker 2: basically said, I need I need more time to sit
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  Speaker 2: with that question. I think. I think genuinely, when you
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  Speaker 2: think about Foster, it's a it's just how well deserved
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  Speaker 2: it is and be how much he represents like what
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  Speaker 2: baseball can be right and again that maybe that's like
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  Speaker 2: too philosophical or whatnot, but it's it's searching for answers
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  Speaker 2: and even if you don't necessarily like jump out on
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  Speaker 2: the page or the velocity doesn't jump out or anything like,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff matters in myron baseball. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: special class of people where they can find an answer.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that's what makes Foster so representative
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  Speaker 2: of both the Nationals and just so well deserving for this,
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  Speaker 2: for this, you know, selection to the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, excited that he's going to be joining James n
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  Speaker 1: And we are back, Spencer. I don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: draft coverage you were doing over the course of the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but the Nationals were very, very busy. I was listening
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  Speaker 1: to the live broadcast from Day one of the draft
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  Speaker 1: when the Nationals made their first selection and Chris said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's like seventy guys in that room when he got
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  Speaker 1: the call from the Nationals that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: go in the first round. Of course, it was a
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  Speaker 1: busy day on Day two as well. But Spencer, were
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  Speaker 1: there any draft picks that stood out to you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And what's your overall NAT's draft grade? I suppose yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm smart enough to have a
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  Speaker 2: draft grade. What I will say is, like, literally an
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  Speaker 2: hour ago I went over and you guys can read.
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  Speaker 2: I published a story at The Athletic about the Nationals
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  Speaker 2: draft process because they overhauled so much this year. And
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  Speaker 2: it's it's interesting too, because they had a decent twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four draft and I think a really strong twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five draft, but they did feel like there was
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  Speaker 2: more work to do with all the new executives. I
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  Speaker 2: will say I'm very bullish on the Hagopian pick, and
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  Speaker 2: it's hard again for me as someone who has not
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  Speaker 2: seen him in person, is not a scout like I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be someone who's commenting on this is a good
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  Speaker 2: pick or this is a bad pick. What I can
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  Speaker 2: say and what I can speak to is he has
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  Speaker 2: the sort of traits that make him a perfect National
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  Speaker 2: prospect in that he has excellent swing decisions. He makes
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  Speaker 2: a ton of contact in the zone, which the Nationals
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  Speaker 2: are big on and I think will be big on,
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  Speaker 2: especially as they acquire prospects and acquire players, and he
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  Speaker 2: hits the ball pretty hard. What he doesn't do or
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  Speaker 2: what he knows he needs to work on, and he
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  Speaker 2: was very forthcoming about this is lifting the ball in
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  Speaker 2: the air. And you look at all these success stories
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  Speaker 2: in the Nationals like minor league system, what are they doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're lifting the ball war right, And so I think
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  Speaker 2: that's something that they're confident that they can teach. They
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  Speaker 2: really like the character. It's funny we talked to him
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  Speaker 2: as well, and it's hard not to be impressed just
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  Speaker 2: with the I doneral makeup after fifteen minutes or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I really like that pick, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to act like I can speak too much to
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the draft class. I know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were bullish on both those high school players. They
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  Speaker 2: said they were surprised that they got Cooper Harris in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth round. They really liked Chase Brunson, their second
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  Speaker 2: round pick. Is all around tools. But to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard really evaluate these guys, not for them but
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  Speaker 2: for me when they just got in the system. What
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  Speaker 2: I'm really curious about is for those of them that
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit of time in the organization this year,
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  Speaker 2: what they do once they're you know, at the plate
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  Speaker 2: or on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: And Matt's fans, I think should be really excited about
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  Speaker 1: the makeup of that first round pick. If you were
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  Speaker 1: listening to the broadcast, you know, but this kid was
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  Speaker 1: thrown out names like Ian Desmond, Danny Espinosa, longtime Nationals fan,
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  Speaker 1: and answered that his favorite NAT's memory grown up. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen just an overall terrific selection in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: and again, time will tell to see how these guys develop.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm given it an a plus as a fair
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  Speaker 1: Weather fan, not a fair Weather fan, but someone who's
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  Speaker 1: always gonna align with the Nationals regardless of what direction
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  Speaker 1: they go in. That's my team, Spencer. This stat may
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  Speaker 1: have updated since you tweeted it out the other day,
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  Speaker 1: but the Nationals are on pace right now to set
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  Speaker 1: a record. I'm calling it the BS record, the blown
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  Speaker 1: save record. This is just I don't know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: fathomable to me in terms of the pace that they're
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  Speaker 1: at here in terms of how quickly they may break
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  Speaker 1: this record ahead of season. But I mean it's good
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  Speaker 1: to make history, I suppose.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're obviously not happy with the pace they're on.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're on piece for about forty five. Last
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  Speaker 2: time I checked, the third game of the series wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even a blown save because they didn't have a lead
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  Speaker 2: I believe when Alvarez first came in. And so they're
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  Speaker 2: they're still at twenty seven, still tracking for around forty five.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, whether or not that number in particular is
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  Speaker 2: cognizant in their minds when they're on the mound, just
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  Speaker 2: from talking with you know, players around the clubhouse and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of getting the pulse of things. Obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: it's on all of their minds, you know, before games
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  Speaker 2: after games, something they're they're still really working through because
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  Speaker 2: you know, like it's a it's a massive slice of
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  Speaker 2: the pie in terms of what Blake Byteria has to
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  Speaker 2: put his focus on. And for all the relievers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're doing any sort of work, you're cognizant that hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is what we've been and this is
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  Speaker 2: what we have to change. And so yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily know how much of a mental factor it is
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  Speaker 2: on the mound. I know it's part of it, whether
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  Speaker 2: or not they say it, but it is something that
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  Speaker 2: they will obviously try to avoid making that history. You know,
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  Speaker 2: towards the end of the season, we're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to take another quick bait quick break when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, a look at the standings and some predictions
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  Speaker 1: for the Nationals in the All Star Game on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: You do not want to miss that. People look at
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  Speaker 1: the national schedule when they come out of All Star Break,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be the Athletics, the No Name Athletics, and then
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  Speaker 1: the Rockies. They open up with a West Coast road
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  Speaker 1: trip before returning home playing the d Backs in the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays. So in theory, the schedule lightning up for
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  Speaker 1: them a little bit. You know, got to get rolling
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  Speaker 1: when they come out of the break. Here CJ Abrams,
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  Speaker 1: James Wood, and Foster Griffin, the Nationals representatives in the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game tomorrow night, Spencer, any predictions, bold predictions.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's tough with the All Star Game. The
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  Speaker 1: managers aren't even you know, any predictions for the Nets
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I have strong predictions. I'll make
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  Speaker 2: these two claims that may like inform a fans decision.
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  Speaker 2: The first is that I am next to certain that
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  Speaker 2: Foster has been told which ending he will pitch in
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  Speaker 2: the game, So we know that we can see Foster
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  Speaker 2: in that game unless there is some sort of last
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  Speaker 2: minute change, which always could happen. The second and third
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  Speaker 2: of which, and I have a little something cooking on
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  Speaker 2: this right now. The Nationals, but in particular CJ and James,
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  Speaker 2: have done an exceptional job this season hitting aces and
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  Speaker 2: hitting back end relievers, and so think about how that
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  Speaker 2: might play in the postseason. That's what's most important when
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  Speaker 2: you think about how might play an All Star Game,
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  Speaker 2: like James has a home run against like all these
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  Speaker 2: like you know he hit it off Kim Schlittler the
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  Speaker 2: other day. It was it was ninety nine at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the zone. You think about CJ took Paul
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  Speaker 2: Skeins deep earlier this season. Now will he be facing Skins. No,
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  Speaker 2: But you know, these are two guys who aren't just
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  Speaker 2: like beating up on the seventh man in the you
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  Speaker 2: know Rockies bullpen. They're they're hitting against these these really
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  Speaker 2: elite arms, and so yeah, that could that could absolutely
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  Speaker 2: play in the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to know that Foster has been informed he's
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  Speaker 1: getting inning to pitch, because for managers, that's got to
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  Speaker 1: be the not fun part of the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose guys coming up to you and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can't throw, man, I got to start as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I come out of the break, or I need
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  Speaker 1: a pitch in specifically this inning. I don't quite feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable there. So kudos to the coaching staff for the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game and putting on a good show for
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  Speaker 1: the fans. I think that's all we got for today. Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: anything you want to toss in before the next episode, No, just.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I had a scurry go up on the athletic
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  Speaker 2: this morning. My colleague Berries for Luga did as well,
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  Speaker 2: and we will continue writing about the Nationals. If there's
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  Speaker 2: it and we'll write about it, sir.
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  Speaker 1: until the next episode. See you later.