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Washington is now four games over the .500 mark and in sole possesion of a playoff spot nearly half way through the season.
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00:00The Nats just continue to rip, man.
00:03They've won their fourth straight now.
00:06They won 6-4 last night.
00:08Curtis Mead hit a three-run homer in the seventh.
00:11They're now 39-35.
00:14They're four games over 500.
00:15They've won, I believe, 11 of their last 12 series.
00:19They're 9-1-1 over their last series, last 11 series.
00:24And, dude, today, today, they are alone in the last wild-court spot.
00:32Like, we keep talking about, oh, they're tied with this team, tied with this team.
00:34They are alone in this last wild-court spot.
00:37They just got to keep going, man.
00:38Like, you know, we talk about teams that win a lot, teams that lose a lot.
00:42They all are contagious.
00:44Totally.
00:45If you're winning, all of a sudden you just find a way to keep getting it done,
00:48no matter who you're playing against.
00:49And the little thing about the Marlins, when they play against them,
00:52they have to still get to the point where they don't ever try to look past nobody.
00:57Yeah, I agree with that.
00:58Because when they go into a game.
01:00It is the damn Marlins every time.
01:01When they go into a game tuned in, they win.
01:04Our series, they win it.
01:06Because, you know, when you're playing against a better team,
01:08you know you've got to come to your best self.
01:10Oh, man, the Marlins, we can take a break.
01:12Just that little thought, screw you over.
01:14When do they play the Marlins again?
01:17Hopefully, maybe they're done.
01:18Let's not do it to any time soon.
01:20But, dude, so, you know me.
01:22Like, I pay attention to media.
01:24And my go-to for a long time was always reading the Washington Post for all the local news.
01:29Like, I remember when Sreluga was writing gamers about the Nats?
01:32Gosh, we had it good.
01:34But I don't know where the hell to go read a gamer about the Nats anymore.
01:40And I found this federal baseball this morning.
01:43And I know this blog has existed for some time.
01:46Back in the SB Nation days, I worked for SB Nation once upon a time.
01:49And I didn't know that this was still going so strong, so that's on me.
01:53But I want to give credit to Sam Salek, who wrote up the game last night.
01:58And I was just impressed by this.
02:01The Nats have won 11 of the last 12 series.
02:04They're 39-35.
02:05Sole possession of a wild card spot.
02:08But diving a little deeper, Foster Griffin, who Stallion told me was once a first-round pick by the Royals
02:15organization.
02:15So perhaps that led to a little extra motivation last night.
02:18Or perhaps he just wanted to pitch really well.
02:22Six innings of one run ball, striking out six.
02:25Cool.
02:26And his ERA is now down to 3-3-2.
02:30That's good.
02:30Dude.
02:30Real good.
02:31He had two kind of bad starts in May, but has gotten back to rolling.
02:36And I believe that's the dude they signed from Japan.
02:40Like, this dude was in Japan last year.
02:42Any MLB team could have signed him.
02:43Because I don't know enough, but I know the dudes would rather play here than Japan.
02:48Hell yeah.
02:48And I just, if you look at the amount of guys that this Toboni-led crew has found, it's really
02:58interesting.
02:58Nassim Nunez.
02:59B, you've watched a lot of baseball over your years.
03:02Going back to you being a kid rooting for the Cincinnati Reds.
03:05Mm-hmm.
03:06I am confident this has happened because everything in baseball has happened before, right?
03:10Like, you can go back to the 1926 Indians or whatever.
03:14Mm-hmm.
03:15Dude had two triples last night.
03:17That is rare.
03:18Yeah, very.
03:19He obviously has speed.
03:20Like, he's a real threat on the bases because he's still, at some point, I think he was leading the
03:26NL in steals.
03:27But he's been a really good fielder.
03:29The bat has kind of lagged, but he's got hot lately.
03:32In his last 15 games, he's hitting .333.
03:35And two triples is just.
03:37That's weird.
03:38Right?
03:39Norman's a home run or a double.
03:41Right.
03:41You know?
03:42Did they have any errors on that?
03:44I mean, if they're scoring triples, it means not an error.
03:47Well, he hit it and he got right.
03:49You know how they get, like, stuck?
03:51Yeah.
03:52Or they get a weird bounce off the wall?
03:54And then I want to give credit to Curtis Meade, right?
03:58He hit a huge home run.
04:01I think I was watching, but I was out, so I wasn't, like, locked in, locked in.
04:06Yeah.
04:06But they had, like, a 3-1 lead, maybe 4-1 lead.
04:10And then the bullpen kind of gave it up.
04:12And then Meade comes up and just hits a bomb to take the lead again.
04:17And it got a little dicey late in the game.
04:19But Meade now has 11 home runs on the season.
04:23And this is a dude that they traded for, it might have been, like,
04:26Tobone's third day on the job.
04:28And I think he was in the Tampa organization with Butera.
04:33Like, they clearly identified some guys they thought that people didn't,
04:40people kind of missed on.
04:42Like, if you just think about the heroes from last night, Meade and Griffin.
04:47Like, those were two dudes that were available to the baseball universe.
04:50And then they get here, and it starts to click.
04:53As we get further and further into this Nats season, dude,
04:57it's, one, becoming kind of must-watch.
05:00Yeah.
05:00Because you want to, all right, they've now won four in a row.
05:03Can they sweep the Royals, right?
05:05There you go.
05:05You can listen to it right here on 106.7, coming up at 1 o'clock.
05:09Charlie and Dave will be on the call.
05:10We're going to talk to Dan Colco from Nats TV in about an hour, I think.
05:15But, like, you're like, do they have a season sweep yet?
05:19Do they have a series sweep yet this season, Stallion?
05:21Because they've won 100 series, it seems like.
05:24But I can't remember a sweep.
05:26Maybe it was early.
05:27Yeah, it was against the Brewers in Milwaukee, which, actually, fun fact,
05:30if the season ended today, they'd play in Milwaukee for a three-game series
05:34to determine where to go to a division series.
05:36Yeah, maybe we go to Milwaukee.
05:38They got beer and golf.
05:40I go for the golf.
05:44It's just that season is something that I don't think any of us expected.
05:49And what happens, especially in baseball, because it's such a long season
05:54and there's so many different players and there's different situations
05:57and pinch runners and pinch hitters and bullpen pitchers,
06:01like so many little characters emerge.
06:04You know why they win in all these games?
06:07They listen to somebody say that, oh, the shoe's going to drop eventually.
06:10Yeah, where are you at, Doomsday Stallion?
06:12You've been saying this forever.
06:14I mean, like.
06:15I mean, like.
06:17The further we get along this season, the better I feel about this team.
06:22That's normally how it goes.
06:23When they keep winning, you start feeling good.
06:25Exactly.
06:26And so now it's June 17th and the Nationals have a sole possession
06:31of your wild card spot.
06:32Like, I feel good.
06:34I know Jeff went to the game last night.
06:37According to my man Sam Salek from Federal Baseball,
06:40which I mean this sincerely, Sam.
06:42I enjoyed your article on the game last night.
06:47He said Nats Park was packed last night.
06:50And the fans went nuts in the ninth,
06:52especially when they got a game-winning strikeout.
06:55Attendance.
06:56Stallion, get me paid attendance, because that's what they announced.
06:59But Jeff Walker was boots on the ground.
07:01Nats correspondent last night.
07:03What was the vibe?
07:04How crowded was it?
07:05I want that place packed.
07:06It was a pretty packed crowd.
07:08When we first got there, we got there around 5 o'clock.
07:11I thought it was going to be low attendance because it wasn't that many people there.
07:15But as the night went on, people started to fill in.
07:19All right.
07:19Good.
07:19How was your evening being in the Terror Club?
07:21Balling-ass walker?
07:23It was cool, man.
07:24It was cool.
07:24Right before me hit the home run, me and my boy was talking.
07:28I said, he's going to hit it right here because my boy was betting.
07:30He was like, I was like, he's going to hit it right here.
07:32And they ain't going to give up the lead.
07:33And he hit it.
07:34And that boy looked at me like, I was the second coming to Jesus Christ because his bet hit.
07:39We're not going to go that far, Jeff.
07:40I don't think anyone's ever looked at you that way, Jeff.
07:44Terror Club is dope.
07:45I'm glad you got to go.
07:47I'm glad it was a packed crowd.
07:49I think we all got to kind of pay attention here.
07:53They're good, dude.
07:54And I was listening.
07:56Maybe it was Grant and Danny.
07:58Maybe it was Rooster.
07:59I don't know.
07:59I was listening to something yesterday.
08:0125,000.
08:02That's what I said yesterday.
08:05You need to see 25K again.
08:06Why didn't you say 30?
08:0825 is a nice, good number.
08:09Yeah, just go to 30.
08:10Kick it up there.
08:11I'm good with 25.
08:12I'll take 30.
08:13Okay.
08:13You ask for what you want.
08:15I'm good.
08:15I'm good at 25 on a Tuesday night.
08:18Hey, man.
08:18Go as high as you can.
08:20Doug, it doesn't hurt that we are experiencing some of the best summer weather the D.C. region's ever seen.
08:27Yeah.
08:27And I don't know.
08:29I got caught inside, man.
08:30I did watch some.
08:32What did you do last night?
08:33I was at the Palm.
08:34Oh, that's a good place to be.
08:35Yeah, yeah.
08:37I mean, today is just perfect.
08:40Yesterday was perfect.
08:41I know there could be some rain coming, but I don't know.
08:44Go to the ball game today.
08:45Enjoy it.
08:46Let's not worry about what's coming.
08:47Let's take what we have.
08:49I cannot believe kids are still in school.
08:52I wish.
08:52Today is the last day for a lot of people, for a lot of kids.
08:55It should be.
08:56Yeah.
08:57It's June 17th.
08:58Dude, stop worrying about kids.
09:01They need to be in school.
09:03Be.
09:04Now, pause.
09:06Nothing happens at school after Memorial Day.
09:09All the kids do is watch movies and, like, field day.
09:13They're not doing anything after Memorial Day weekend.
09:15Let them be at school.
09:16This is just legal, governmental procedures that require X number of school days.
09:22No, man.
09:22They need to go to school.
09:23I don't care what they're learning.
09:25If they're at home.
09:25They're not learning anything.
09:26A lot of them don't have people to keep them at home.
09:29Leave them at school.
09:29On June 17th, what do you think a kid is learning?
09:32What do you think the lesson plan is?
09:33I really don't care.
09:35I just don't want them out on the street.
09:36Stay at school.
09:37Fair.
09:38We'll see.
09:39I think D.C. has been out.
09:40I think the only school still going is Montgomery County.
09:42Which time I think last day might have been yesterday or Friday?
09:46Loudoun.
09:46Loudoun.
09:47Okay.
09:48Well, it'd be great if kids – there's a day game.
09:51So, kids should go to this game today.
09:521 o'clock.
09:53They're going to have a few more of them this summer.
09:54They'll go.
09:54Yeah.
09:55Yeah.
09:55Listen, we fully support Nats day games.
09:58That's one thing you and I agree on in totality.
10:00They can play at 11 o'clock, to be honest with you.
10:02No.
10:02Oh, 11 might be too early.
10:04We might have to come on at the end.
10:0612, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12.
10:09That season is fun.
10:10And I was listening.
10:12I think Red and Danny did a call-in topic about – I think we're all in agreement you can't
10:18trade C.J. anymore.
10:19I'm with you on that.
10:20Like, that cannot happen.
10:21And they're playing too good.
10:25Baseball seasons, sports seasons are precious resources.
10:30And when you're good and have a chance to go for something, you cannot back away from that.
10:36I think it's more like – I think it's more about they have to make sure the fans believe they
10:43are trying to win.
10:44Because if you get rid of him right now, you can't tell a fan what you're trying to do.
10:49Right.
10:49They're going to like, what the hell?
10:50Every time you get good, you get rid of the best player.
10:53Totally.
10:53No, so they have to, I think, keep him around even for just that, to say, look, look what we're
10:59doing.
10:59We need a couple more of those, and we'll be winning more games.
11:03We'll be competing.
11:03Completely agree.
11:04I think if you – basically, the trade deadline is late July.
11:10So you're about a month away.
11:12And I think there are a lot of stallions out there, people just waiting for lose six out of eight.
11:20Like, people are just waiting for that.
11:22I'm done with that.
11:23I just think this team's good.
11:25They get timely hitting whenever they need it.
11:27The pitching's been far better over the last six weeks than we expected.
11:31And, like, I'm done with the when is it going to go bad.
11:34I'm just going to watch it be good.
11:36I'm going to think like the players think.
11:38The players always think they can make it happen.
11:39I'm going to think like that.
11:40That waiting for it to happen stuff, that's too stressful.
11:44Totally.
11:44Yo, going into the NBA draft lottery, I said they're going to get the first overall pick.
11:49I'm going to choose to be optimistic about this.
11:51And what happened?
11:52We manifested that thing.
11:54They got the first overall pick.
11:55You need to start manifesting them pars and birdies.
11:58I'm generally putting for par.
12:00I'm generally not making them.
12:01Be putting for birdie.
12:02I don't know about that.
12:03They can guarantee the par.
12:03When you can't get off the tee, it's impossible to putt for birdie.
12:06Because every par four becomes a three-shot hole.
12:09Well, I'm focused on manifesting the Nationals right now.
12:12I can only manifest so much, Brian.
12:14I can't share.
12:14Yeah, very good.
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