00:00I watched the Nats game, and again, they blew it.
00:04The bullpen blew another game.
00:08They were up 5-0, and then it was 5-5 entering the ninth inning.
00:14And the crowds, shout out to Nats fans, and shout out to the crowds,
00:17because I've watched the last couple nights, and you can see good crowds,
00:22good energy.
00:23I think they announced last night, I think Colco said 27,000.
00:27That's the kind of crowd I want, right?
00:30It's got to be 25K or more.
00:32If you want that crowd like that to continue,
00:34you can't keep blowing all these damn leads.
00:375-5 entering the ninth, and the crowd has a really strong
00:41Bleep Bryce Harper chant, which has my full support, by the way.
00:47And then he just hits a nuke.
00:49See, now what I'll tell you is this.
00:54The crowds, some people you can do it to, and you shake them.
00:57Some people you can do it to, and they're going to do what Bryce did.
01:01You know, like when Reggie Miller and Jordan would go to Madison Square Garden,
01:08and Spike Lee and his crew would be doing the same thing,
01:11they bust that ass all the time.
01:13Leave Bryce alone now.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Let's start telling, let's start saying bleep our bullpen and see if they can come back
01:20and fight like that, or they're going to fold.
01:23I'm just saying.
01:24Can I just read you some of these stats about this bullpen?
01:27Mm-hmm.
01:29Can I read you exactly what Stallion wrote in the notes?
01:31This is pretty damn funny.
01:33I think he meant to write the Phillies scored 22 runs against the Nats bullpen
01:38from the seventh inning on.
01:39Did he say scoured?
01:39He wrote scoured.
01:40The Phillies scoured 22 runs against the Nationals bullpen.
01:45How do you scour 22 runs?
01:47All right, not going to lie, that was actually a tweet that someone put out.
01:52Well, you better out him because otherwise I'm going to tweet you to put out.
01:55We work with this person.
01:57What I'm saying is.
01:58Hold on.
01:59There was one yesterday.
02:01But you, what, you cutting plates?
02:03Yeah, yeah.
02:04It was a tweet that I put out.
02:06Who tweeted it?
02:07Grant.
02:08Grant's out here scouring.
02:10Yeah, you can't scour, Grant.
02:11You got to score.
02:12But since you're trying to blame Grant.
02:14I don't score.
02:16Did you see what Stallion posted yesterday to the B. Mr. Finley Instagram account?
02:20What was it?
02:21He posted a picture.
02:23I'm not trying to sound like a dork, but occasionally people ask me for autographs.
02:27It's not that rare anymore.
02:30Stallion took a picture of me signing an autograph for this dude.
02:33And he wrote, look at JP signing autographs on Dostrick debut.
02:38He misspelled district.
02:39He wrote D-O-S-T-R-I-C-T.
02:42And I noticed you have also since deleted that Instagram story.
02:46I sure as heck did.
02:48Why do you?
02:49You can't blame Grant for that one, dude.
02:50I can't.
02:51Just go back and put an I.
02:53I could have edited it, but at that point.
02:56One thing about, like, today I'll say this about tweets.
03:00Let's not be grammar police on tweets.
03:03Because they do whatever they want to do.
03:05I can't read that out because he tried to throw Grant on his bus.
03:06No, I like to mess with him.
03:07But I'm saying, when you're tweeting something, sometimes it's self-correct.
03:13A lot of times it doesn't.
03:15I think it has a mind of its own.
03:17The I and the O on the keyboard are right next to each other, too.
03:20Twitter is also fundamentally broken.
03:21Like, Twitter used to be this great news service.
03:24And now I can't get the timeliness of it ever.
03:27It used to just be for you was like that.
03:29Now following is like that, too.
03:31Like, my Twitter usage has decreased significantly as it's just undergone these massive changes.
03:39I don't understand it.
03:40I don't appreciate it.
03:42But Elon doesn't care what I think.
03:43He's busy building rockets or whatever he's saying.
03:47This Nats bullpen, dude, is so bad.
03:51Greg, say it was not me.
03:54Greg, Ryan has taken over.
03:57Veevich, what's worse, the Nats bullpen or Ryan Spelling?
04:01Ryan Spelling.
04:02Okay.
04:03It's me this awful.
04:05I did tweet this out last night.
04:08What's worse, this Nats bullpen or a certain wide receiver's social media advice?
04:14Oh, Lord.
04:17I mean, like, I just.
04:20I am at a point where I'm done with that one, though.
04:22I want to keep this to the Nats, but the social media situation is just so out of control.
04:28And then the best tweet I saw regarding the social media and the Nats bullpen was,
04:36I want to give this dude credit, D.C. Ball Talk said,
04:39put Brandon Iyuk in the bullpen if he wants to be in D.C. so bad.
04:45I don't know if it helped in there.
04:47The Nats had their 24th blown save on the season yesterday,
04:50well on their way to break the Major League Baseball record.
04:53All records aren't good records now.
04:54God, they're only 10 away from breaking the all-time record.
04:58All records aren't good records.
04:59They have half a season to play.
05:01All records aren't good records, man.
05:02Coco last night ended the broadcast before they went to Alexa.
05:06By saying, the Nats dropped three out of four to the Phillies in a series they should have swept.
05:13Yeah.
05:14And it's remarkable because the Nats have created this situation where they've won enough that we care.
05:24If they were 25 and 50 right now.
05:28We wouldn't give a damn.
05:29We wouldn't care.
05:29Yeah.
05:30But they've shown enough to get us to care again and then Ryan care again and this bullpen is so
05:38bad.
05:39They're now back to 500.
05:42Yeah.
05:42You could argue they should be 45 and 40.
05:46You remember just a few days ago, a week ago, we were talking about if the season ended right now.
05:51If it ends right now, where they at, Ryan?
05:54Because you said it.
05:56If it ended today.
05:57If it ended today about the playoff stuff you had mentioned.
06:00And I told you we're not talking about that.
06:02So if the season ends now, where they at?
06:04They'd be three games out of a wild card spot.
06:07Yeah, okay.
06:07They're now, they were on the verge of being in the second wild card spot.
06:12Now it goes Phillies, Cubs, Cardinals as the three wild cards.
06:17Then Padres, Marlins, D-backs, Pirates, Nats.
06:20Now the Pirates come to town next week.
06:22I believe Paul Skeens is pitching at Nats Park.
06:24That place should be loaded.
06:26If I was in town, I'd be there.
06:29They've got a three-game set against the O's this weekend in Camden Yards.
06:32I imagine those will be packed.
06:35I don't know what the Nats have to do here.
06:38Because clearly, Toboni, Butera, specifically Toboni has made a number of moves that have really paid off with the bats.
06:47Right?
06:47A number of players are batting, hitting way better than we expected.
06:52And we'll see if that is, they're just hot for the first half of the year.
06:56Or if that will continue.
06:58Right?
06:58But, you've got to applaud the moves they've made.
07:02But this bullpen is so bad, and the demoralizing nature of blowing leads, that can eat away at a room.
07:11And as they're trying to turn this thing around and rebuild it, you almost have to add something to make
07:20this work.
07:21Like, if you're a player on this Nationals team, and you know, like, hey man, we've been pretty good.
07:28But damn, our pen can't close anything out.
07:31Can we do something to fix this?
07:33And nothing gets done.
07:35Does that crater the clubhouse?
07:38I don't know if you've ever been on a team that couldn't finish out leads.
07:41But it's got to eat away at these guys.
07:45It has to.
07:46I mean, listen.
07:49I've been on teams where when they put somebody in to do something and you just know they can't get
07:53it done.
07:53How it makes you feel.
07:56And how you look at it.
07:58And I've been on a team.
07:58When you put the person in, you know.
08:00And I know how free it makes you.
08:02They have to be sitting in the blue.
08:04Oh, here we go again.
08:06It's no confidence.
08:07It can't be.
08:08It's got to kill you.
08:10I want to open the phone lines up.
08:11800-636-1067.
08:13Shane is on the line.
08:14Shane, what do you think about this Nats bullpen situation?
08:18Hi, JP.
08:19B. Mitch, good morning to you.
08:20Tell us how y'all doing this morning.
08:21We're good, bud.
08:22How are you?
08:22Hey, look, here's what I would do.
08:24Look, if I was James Wood, I'd go to that bullpen and say, if you throw another.
08:28I'm whooping somebody's ass at this point.
08:30This is crazy.
08:31I watched that game last night.
08:33And you're right.
08:3424 blown saves.
08:35What if we would win half of those games?
08:38If we had some arms, this team can hit and score.
08:41Obviously, that's what they're doing.
08:42The learners right now need to wake the hell up and do something with this team.
08:47But that's the sour taste in our mouth, right?
08:50The damn learners.
08:51So, we know we got a team that is ahead of schedule in a rebuild.
08:57But yet, what are we going to do to get this team to get some arms?
09:00We need some pitching bad.
09:02Chapman's out there.
09:03Why not Chapman?
09:04What's to say we can't get hot and get in the wild card?
09:08It makes a noise.
09:08I appreciate the call, Shane.
09:10Phone lines are open now.
09:11800-636-1067.
09:13800-636-1067.
09:16The Nats played way ahead of pace for the first half of the season.
09:20Now they've dropped two series in a row.
09:22They should have swept the fills, which would have had them maybe even in the top wild card spot.
09:27Instead, their bullpen collapses in three straight games.
09:29They now have 24 blown saves on the season.
09:32The Major League Baseball record is 34.
09:35They're 10 off that with half the year to go.
09:38Phone lines are open.
09:39Because here's my biggest question.
09:40We got to a point where you can't trade CJ.
09:43Things are going too well.
09:44If they keep losing, does trading CJ get back on the table?
09:49Do you have to buy to save the infrastructure of what you're building right now to keep these guys on
09:55the positive track?
09:56Or do you have to sell?
09:58Because you know you can't add to this pen right now.
10:01Or ownership won't spend a dollar.
10:04Phones are open.
10:04Be Mitchell Finley.
10:05The Nats bullpen is a mess.
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