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The Commanders have Jayden Daniels. Nationals have James Wood and a strong farm, and the Wizards have the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft. Who has the brightest future?
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00:00The brain trust that puts the program together.
00:04We got Jeff Walker, DJ Jeff Too Funny.
00:07We've officially nominated, where's the monumental camera?
00:09Right here.
00:09We've officially nominated Jeff.
00:11All salute and love to DJ Heat.
00:13DJ Heat has announced that she is going to step away from her job
00:16as the in-game DJ for Wizards and Mystics games.
00:20All do love to DJ Heat.
00:22We are nominating Jeff Too Funny to be the DJ.
00:24He does Commander's Games.
00:25He'll do a hell of a job.
00:26Lifelong Wizards Bullets fan.
00:27That's a serious thing for you folks.
00:29Jeffrey.
00:30I think Jeff deserves real consideration.
00:33So the brain trust that puts the program together is Jeff Too Funny.
00:36It's our guy, Ryan the Stallion, Clary.
00:38And the one that's quiet in there, I think is by far the smartest by a mile,
00:43is White Brian.
00:46Sports-wise, yes.
00:49He is kind of smart.
00:51He's just a little aloof.
00:53Sports-wise isn't important.
00:54We can't say the guy jumping in hurricane water is the smartest one in the room.
00:57We all have our faults.
00:59Yeah, but you've done some stuff worse than that, Jeff.
01:01There's a lot of lines I want to say that I can't say over the air to describe what being
01:06the smartest in that room means.
01:08But best teeth in West Virginia, something like that, okay?
01:11But regardless, that is where we are with the brain trust.
01:17Oh, man.
01:17So, during the break here, because Stallion wants to propose a question.
01:22Actually, he means this as a statement of fact.
01:23He wants to propose?
01:24He means this as a statement of fact.
01:26He said he wants to propose.
01:27That's a different question.
01:29He writes, DC Sports is at an all-time high.
01:32And I want to explore that.
01:33I want to pull that thread.
01:35However, to set the stage for the brain trust that is putting this topic together,
01:39I've got to explain a conversation that happened in here.
01:43Stallion referenced Bill Buckner to Jeff, and he said, do you know who Bill Buckner is?
01:48And Jeff said, yeah, I know who Bill Buckner is.
01:50And then they kept talking, and I said, wait a second.
01:53Jeff, who is Bill Buckner then?
01:54And he thought for a moment, and he said, man, I got him confused with Bill Bellamy.
01:59Bill Buckner played first base for the Red Sox in the 80s.
02:02Bill Bellamy is an actor-comedian in the 90s, 2000s.
02:06Oh, and one's white and one's black.
02:09Those are two dudes you could never confuse for.
02:12It's the names, bruh.
02:13It's the names.
02:14Bill Bellamy and Buckner don't sound alike.
02:17I don't know why that just came to my head.
02:19Not to be outdone, Stallion's dumb ass goes, well, I don't know who Bill Bellamy is.
02:24So these are our leaders.
02:26These are the great minds of America that are consumed with not being hungover,
02:29that have no idea of pop culture or sports history.
02:32This song tells you everything.
02:33You need to know.
02:34Right.
02:34They're probably both stoned right now.
02:35I don't care.
02:36It's all legal.
02:37Do your thing, boys.
02:38It's the zen.
02:39It's still the zen, huh?
02:40It's the zen from the other day.
02:42It's not impacting me.
02:43Definitely the zen for me.
02:44So with that as the background of our leadership, Stallion writes, and I'm just going to read
02:51what is written.
02:52There we go.
02:53DC Sports is at an all-time high.
02:56Who has the brightest future?
02:58Nats are 25-25.
03:00They have James Wood and C.J. Abrams, who are stars, and a couple of prospects who could
03:03be stars.
03:04Eli Willits, Ronnie Cruz, Devin Fitzgerald, Seaver King.
03:07Okay.
03:08Wizards have the number one pick.
03:09Anthony Davis, Trey Young, Will Riley, Alex R., Keyshawn George.
03:13Yeah.
03:13Commanders have Jaden Daniels, Sonny Stiles, Loaded Free Agency Group, Terry McLaurin.
03:18There's not even mention of the Capitals.
03:19No Capitals at all.
03:20NHL's greatest goal scorer of all time.
03:22I don't see them all here.
03:24I don't want to be a hater.
03:26And if people want to call in and say I'm being ageist or call me a boomer, that's fine.
03:29We'll open the phone lines up for this discussion.
03:31800-636-1067.
03:33800-636-1067.
03:36This is an exciting time to be a DC sports fan.
03:40Undoubtedly.
03:40I would add, women's sports have become such a major part of the sports landscape.
03:46The Spirit and the Mystics are loaded.
03:48Yeah.
03:49The Spirit, unfortunately, have lost in the last two championship games, but they've gotten
03:52there.
03:53The Mystics have young talent all over the place.
03:55All over the place.
03:56So this is a really, you know, Terps women's lacrosse is in the Final Four.
04:00They play Carolina on Friday at 3 o'clock.
04:02This is a fun time to be a DMV sports fan.
04:07However, to call this the all-time high is asinine.
04:11Seriously.
04:12I agree with you, J.P.
04:14It's the potential to be at an all-time high.
04:17Because think of that.
04:18With all those young guys, with the Commanders, we have Jaden Daniels, the Wizards.
04:23I don't notice the word potential in this headline.
04:26I know.
04:27But who's in the best spot right now for DC sports?
04:32I think there is a real debate.
04:34Because all four teams.
04:35That's a different question.
04:36That's a real question.
04:37Well, what does the topic say there?
04:40At 1230, it says, angle which DC sports team has the brightest future.
04:44The headline at noon, DC sports is at an all-time high.
04:47I quibble with that because we live in a microwave culture, just riddled with recency bias.
04:52This is a city.
04:54Listen, I don't remember it.
04:56From 1981 to 1991, I remember the tail end of this.
05:01But the Redskins dominated this city in a fashion that people can never understand.
05:06Four times they appeared in the Super Bowl.
05:07Four Super Bowls, three wins.
05:09I remember 91.
05:09I remember damn near every play.
05:12That was incredible.
05:14Even you only got to experience the tail end.
05:16Now, you experienced it as a player.
05:17I can only imagine what that was like.
05:20But we got to be fair and honest to that run, the pre-COVID two years in this city,
05:26where the Caps finally broke through and won.
05:28And then the Nats win the World Series.
05:31I remember being out there on the mall doing shows.
05:34The middle of that, the Mystics won a title.
05:36Or maybe right after.
05:38That run of when the Caps broke through, and this city hadn't had a winner since 1991,
05:44and to see the joy of Ovechkin and Backey and Oshie at the Georgetown waterfront swimming in the fountains
05:51when they rolled into the Nats game and were hammered.
05:54That was great.
05:54And watching the people throw the beer and catch it at the top of the little double-decker bus.
05:59Totally.
05:59I took my children to two championship parades.
06:02Like, that didn't happen for 25 years.
06:05So that, of the new millennia, that's the all-time high, was Caps, Nats, back-to-back.
06:11And we've got to be cognizant of that.
06:15All that said, this is an exciting time.
06:18Yeah, yeah.
06:19This is an exciting, exciting time.
06:21Can I beat a dead horse real quick?
06:23Beat it.
06:23There is no way we could be at an all-time high when we were praying to get the first
06:29overall pick.
06:30We picked seven.
06:33It, like you said, the potential, yes, but all-time high, nah, bro.
06:37We just got smacked last for, the Commanders got smacked last for Boston.
06:41They're coming off five and 12 season.
06:42Yeah.
06:43The Wizards, the Wizards.
06:45Guarantee you got a mimosa.
06:47Yeah.
06:47It's the zen.
06:48I'm just saying, there is potential for all these franchises to have really good seasons.
06:55There is.
06:56There is a ton of potential in D.C. sports right now.
06:58So, a lot of hype in the air.
07:01I like the question, who has the brightest future right now?
07:05I do like that.
07:05Mm-hmm.
07:06Because I, this Nats team is super exciting.
07:10But the all-time high thing is, we should have just left that out.
07:13Sure.
07:13Yeah.
07:13Now, this Nats team, I think, remember when Stallion didn't have sex for 18 months?
07:2112 months.
07:21Yeah.
07:22It was a year.
07:22No, it was 18 months.
07:24Yeah, it was.
07:24Because you told us and we added it up.
07:26It wasn't on purpose.
07:27He was, he was thick now.
07:28Oh, he was a big dude.
07:29Yeah, old fat Stallion.
07:30He looked like Santa Claus.
07:31And didn't have sex for 18 months.
07:32He was a Clydesdale then.
07:35But, I, listen, I don't want to misspeak here because I don't, I don't have the records
07:41to check.
07:42But when Stallion didn't have sex for 18 months in his prime, in his 20s, I imagine the first,
07:48the woman that broke that streak might have been a four.
07:52Might have been a six.
07:53Whatever she was.
07:54And that's pushing it.
07:55Right.
07:56Sure.
07:57But, it didn't matter because it had been so long.
08:00This Nats team is fun to watch.
08:02But they've been so bad.
08:04For so long.
08:05Let's not, they're 500.
08:07It's awesome.
08:08They are on the way up.
08:09I am super excited about Paul Taboni and Blake Butera.
08:12And James Wood looks like a bona fide superstar.
08:16CJ Abrams has been in All-Star.
08:18There is a lot to like.
08:19But let's not confuse.
08:20But let's not overstate the situation.
08:22Let's not confuse where this Nats team is compared to like 2016 when they hadn't broken
08:26through yet, but they had Scherzer and Wirth and Strasburg and Harper.
08:30Like, this Nats team I'm super excited about.
08:33But like, for them to get back to what was, Willits needs to be a star.
08:38Not the potential.
08:38Seaver King needs to be a star.
08:40So I am super excited about the Nats team.
08:42But I have a tough time saying they have the brightest future.
08:47Although, the Wiz, with the number one pick, is super exciting.
08:52It is.
08:54We don't know what that's going to be.
08:55We don't.
08:56We don't know.
08:57And then the thing about it is, I think we, no matter what city you're in, sports, we start
09:03talking about our team.
09:05We forget about everything else.
09:06Because let's be real.
09:07So we get better, we got to compete against some folks.
09:12How good are the other teams that you're going to have to compete against?
09:16I got this text from old friend Nick Turner.
09:20He might be on to something.
09:22You know why the sense of optimism might be higher?
09:27Let's remove the microwave society we live in.
09:29Let's remove the addiction to recency bias that social media has created in all of our
09:34brains.
09:34Let's remove those things, right?
09:36You know why optimism might be higher right now?
09:40I believe, for good reason, there is a real sense of confidence in all four of the major
09:50sports teams' leadership.
09:53Finally, we have hired people that have a certain level, and we allow them to do their job.
09:59Right.
09:59We went through the commanders for a long time where the owner ran stuff and didn't know
10:03what the hell he was doing.
10:04And he started off with Vinny, and he had other people that only did what he wanted them
10:08to do.
10:09We had Ernie running the whiz and didn't do a great job of it.
10:15But we just went through a situation where they wouldn't spend money.
10:19Right.
10:19And so if they allow them to spend some money, I believe the brain trust right now, albeit
10:24they're very young, will be very good with the Nats.
10:27And then when you look at the Caps, you know, they went out and did what they needed to do.
10:31The Caps have been the absolute best of all these years because they have always been
10:38in the playoffs, for the most part, and been contending.
10:41And the Caps, what they did that was so remarkable was they have rebuilt this on the fly while
10:48allowing Ovechkin to chase history and now enter history, right?
10:53And the young talent they have, the Portis brothers, you know, like, not Portis, but like
11:00Protis, Hudson, Leno, like having these young guys and still probably what seems more and
11:07more like Ovi coming back.
11:09The biggest question mark, I guess, in the who has the brightest future, the commanders,
11:15it hinges on Jaden.
11:17Jaden's the one that's shown the most of late.
11:19Totally.
11:20But it hinges on him.
11:21Yep.
11:22The Wizards, there's so many reasons for optimism and belief, but like they've averaged 17 wins
11:29per season in the last three years.
11:31Eventually, we got to see it on the court, right?
11:33The Caps have been a perennial contender.
11:37They've gotten younger.
11:38They've gotten faster.
11:39Eventually, like this Ovechkin era will pass and you're confident in that next group.
11:43This year's free agency cycle sucks, but Ted has shown a very much a willingness to spend
11:47the money.
11:48The biggest question mark in our era of optimism is, are the learners ever going to spend?
11:54Yeah.
11:55And like, we don't know that answer until we know that answer.
11:58We won't.
12:00It's hard.
12:01Like, I'm finding this Nat season so much fun and you can see that they're doing things
12:06differently and it's paying off with results.
12:08But to contend to win in baseball, you're going to have to spend at some point.
12:13Totally.
12:14And I don't, I just, I don't know that we know they will.
12:16So when you, it's an era of optimism right now in Washington, who has the brightest future?
12:23Stallion, you fire on that question.
12:25It's a great question.
12:26Honestly, I think, I think there's a debate to be had there, but I think it's the commanders
12:30at this point.
12:31Like if you have that quarterback position solved and it feels as if they 100% do, then
12:37you have a chance every single year.
12:40Like Joe Burrow carried the Bengals to the Superbowl.
12:43And obviously he's got a ton of playmakers there, but I do think the commanders also
12:47have that.
12:47And so I think it is the commanders, but not really that far behind them is the wizards.
12:53I think the wizards, I think the wizards genuinely have a shot.
12:56And if you can get a star like AJ DeBanta or, or Darren Peterson, then that is your star to
13:03build around.
13:04And you have Anthony Davis, who's been a winner, Trey young, who has had some moments in the
13:08playoffs.
13:09Like they have a good young core and I think they're right behind the commanders.
13:12And if Jaden Daniels is healthy this year, they'll probably win 10, 11 games and football
13:21by a wide stretch has the most variance, right?
13:24Like you, I mean, hell just look at the commanders last two years, an NFC title appearance followed
13:28by a five win season, like football, five, five and 12, they flipped.
13:32And I think, I think the NBA is the most, most dependent on an absolute superstar.
13:38And then still a lot more talent around them.
13:40Totally.
13:40Hockey probably has the second most variance, I would say.
13:43And then baseball, you got to be good.
13:45And if you can get to October, like the Nats team that won the World Series probably wasn't
13:49their best team.
13:50They were just red hot at the right time.
13:5219 and 21, something like that?
13:52Yeah.
13:53Yeah.
13:53It was 19 and 26, I think they started, right?
13:56They were 19 and 31 at the 50 game mark.
13:58So this team was better than that team.
14:00This team is ahead of them.
14:02Hey, we might win the World Series, this is your day.
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