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The Washington Nationals have been fighting tooth and nail to stay above .500! Do you believe that the Nationals will make the 2026 playoffs?
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00:00So, the Nats were, I believe, after the Yankees series, before the All-Star break, they fell
00:06to four back, or maybe, might have been four and a half back in the wildcard race.
00:12Now, they're back to one.
00:14Wow.
00:15That's awesome.
00:16So, they beat the Rockies last night.
00:19We kind of previewed the game.
00:20The Rockies are terrible.
00:21They give up a ton of runs.
00:22They didn't score as many runs in the game that I personally would have liked to have
00:26seen.
00:26It went under the total.
00:27You're right.
00:28That's okay.
00:29It went under the total.
00:30They got off to a hot start.
00:32I was watching the beginning of the game.
00:34Wood gets on base.
00:36Meade gets on base with the single, and then Chaparro goes yard, and it's three-nothing
00:40in the blank of an hour.
00:41I know.
00:41I know.
00:42It's trending well for the number.
00:44Kyle Freeland, who's the starter for the Rockies, he's been in a Rockies uniform for, I don't
00:49know, he's probably been there 10 years.
00:51But his ERA is near seven and a half.
00:55We kind of talked about that.
00:58Now, he wasn't horrible.
00:59He was bad in the first inning, but only gave up four over six.
01:03But they got to him early, and they win 7-3.
01:06Three more home runs.
01:07They lead the majors in home runs.
01:09Yep.
01:10And James Wood leads in runs by a lot.
01:13A lot.
01:14He has 93 runs scored.
01:15The next closest is Brian Reynolds from the Pirates at 71.
01:19And he didn't strike out.
01:20He had a bad series in this past weekend against Oakland.
01:28And he struck out 10 times, but didn't strike out last night.
01:31Had a couple runs scored.
01:32Had a hit.
01:33They win 7-3.
01:34Abrams hit number 22.
01:36We already mentioned Chaparro.
01:37He hit number four.
01:40Jacob Young hit one.
01:41Jake Young hit one.
01:42He's hitting 233.
01:44I don't know how many Young has.
01:45Is that eight or nine for him?
01:46It's his ninth.
01:47Ninth.
01:47Last season in 120 games, he had two.
01:50Yeah.
01:51So, this year he's got nine.
01:52Seven more runs.
01:53They win the game 7-3.
01:55They're one back in the wild card.
01:58And we talked about it yesterday at length.
02:01Trade deadline is August 3rd.
02:03We don't know what they're going to do.
02:04If you think you're going to get a guy like Chapman, well, cross him off the list.
02:08Because the Red Sox have won 14 straight.
02:10So, he won't be on the trade market.
02:12I did see the Dodgers picked up a reliever yesterday or the day before.
02:17There's been a few moves.
02:19There has been a few moves.
02:21What are you waiting for?
02:22I just think they're not going to make a big move.
02:24I'll let you ask Tabone.
02:26I just think they're not going to make a big move.
02:28It might not be a big move.
02:29I can't even remember the name.
02:31Let me see who the Dodgers picked up.
02:33But it was a minor move.
02:36But that's a team that has won the World Series.
02:40That's in first place.
02:42That's still tweaking their team.
02:44Right.
02:44But they don't think they're ready for primetime yet.
02:46This is too early.
02:47They might do some minor tweak.
02:49I don't think they're going to do anything.
02:50And also, the Dodgers have basically an unlimited payroll.
02:53Which is clearly not the case here in Washington.
02:56The Dodgers traded for a Rockies reliever named Seth Halverson.
03:01And the Dodgers play for that season.
03:03They're not playing for down the road.
03:05Right.
03:05They're playing for this season.
03:08I don't know.
03:09I mean, you might be right.
03:10It might be a tweak here or there.
03:12But I would like a tweak.
03:14I'd like a tweak.
03:15I don't think it's going to be big.
03:17When you have one of the worst bullpens in baseball, even though they did their job yesterday.
03:21A minor tweak or two.
03:22I think it's going to be underwhelming.
03:24That would be my guess.
03:25I wouldn't expect any sort of major move by the Nats at the trade deadline.
03:29You're going to look at it and go, eh.
03:31A minor tweak or two would help.
03:33So, yeah.
03:34So, they're one back.
03:36Currently, the wild cards in the National League are the Cubs, Phillies, and Cardinals.
03:43Phillies won again last night.
03:45Trey Turner hit two bombs.
03:46He's got 14.
03:46I believe Bryce Harper hit his 200th home run for the Phillies.
03:50Wow.
03:51I'd have to look to see how many he's got total.
03:54But they win 10-7 over the Dodgers.
03:57Cardinals, Marlins, Pirates all tied for the third wild card.
04:02D-backs are a half back and then the Nats.
04:04So, I mean, there's five teams within a game.
04:08Bryce has 384 round trippers in his career.
04:13How old is he now?
04:14He had 184 with the Nats.
04:15He is 33.
04:16He's 33?
04:17My God, life is flying by.
04:19Isn't it?
04:19He's not old, but he's old adjacent.
04:24We're old.
04:25Back end of his prime.
04:25I mean, he's baseball.
04:28He's getting baseball.
04:29Yeah, yeah.
04:29Getting baseball.
04:30Yeah.
04:31Back end of his prime for sure.
04:32Maybe a month ago you brought up Manny Machado and how much he was struggling.
04:36Now, I haven't looked at his batting average, but he had his 20th home run.
04:39Yeah.
04:40And I believe he's done that 11 times already in his career with 20 or more home runs.
04:46Yeah, he was struggling.
04:47He was hitting like 180-something.
04:48I mean, I don't know.
04:49What is he hitting now?
04:51It looks like he's hitting 201.
04:53But at least he's over 200.
04:54Yeah, he's having a bad year.
04:55Yeah, he's in Dylan Cruz territory.
04:57But he's producing some runs.
04:59At least he's got that.
05:01Yeah, well, the Padres were playing so much better in the first couple months of the season.
05:05Now they're two and a half back to the wild card.
05:07So who knows?
05:07They could be a seller.
05:08I don't know.
05:09Yeah.
05:09But I just want the Nats to acquire a couple guys just to help them out.
05:13Bullpen was good last night in course.
05:16But down the road, it's going to struggle.
05:18And I just want them to stay in the mix because they're good enough, certainly good enough offensively to win
05:24the wild card.
05:25They just need to get better on the mound.
05:28Be bold.
05:29Pick up two or three relievers.
05:30Maybe they can.
05:31Maybe they will.
05:33Bickle's probably right.
05:34They'll probably stand pat.
05:36I don't know if they're going to sell anybody, but I would like for them to acquire a couple guys
05:41and help them win some games down the road.
05:42I haven't looked at their schedule and see where the schedule strength ranks in the last 50 games or so.
05:48But you've got to take advantage of the Rockies.
05:51When you have a good offense and you're going to Coors against a bad team, you've got to pound them.
05:57They continue to be far better on the road than they are at home.
06:00It's crazy.
06:0112 games above .500 on the road.
06:0311 under .500 at home.
06:05We'll have Arizona and Toronto at home coming up.
06:08All right.
06:08Well, that Arizona series is huge because they're just ahead of them.
06:12And Toronto's just been okay.
06:13Toronto hasn't been very good.
06:15So there's a lot of winnable series in the next few weeks.
06:19Let's see.
06:20They've played 101 games, right?
06:23Yep.
06:2351 and 50.
06:25All right.
06:25So there's about 60 games left.
06:27Silly Van Halen album from the mid-80s.
06:29I knew that was coming.
06:30That's so good.
06:31That's Sammy Hagar.
06:32Debut of Van Hagar.
06:33I mean, he's very polarizing.
06:35Some people hate him.
06:36Some people love him.
06:37That was a great album.
06:38Really good album.
06:40Seminole album, some would say.
06:42All right.
06:43So good.
06:43So when did that come out?
06:4686, I think.
06:4786?
06:48Yeah.
06:49That's ringing a bell.
06:501986.
06:51All right.
06:51So Nats, Rockies again tonight.
06:53It'll be at 840.
06:55It'll be Michaelis against Lorenzen.
06:58So hopefully, and Lorenzen's ERA is over six.
07:01Do I run it back?
07:02Try to press my luck?
07:04Press my bet?
07:05Probably not.
07:05It's probably not the best move.
07:07Probably just leave it alone.
07:08And they'll score 30 runs.
07:10Total's probably in that same range.
07:12Probably 10 and a half, 11 and a half.
07:14Yeah.
07:14This is a horrible story.
07:16I don't know if you guys paid attention, but Hannah Rapp was a professional female boxer.
07:23Okay.
07:24And she was in Texas, and she was riding her bike, you know, big bicycle rider.
07:30And she's on the road, and a guy passes her.
07:34He passes her.
07:35I don't know.
07:36Goes 30, 40 feet in front of her.
07:39Hits it in reverse and slams into her bike, kills her.
07:43He does that on purpose?
07:44Yeah.
07:44He runs into her on purpose, a road rage.
07:47He runs, he drives past her, stops the car, puts it in reverse, and hits her.
07:53Unbelievable.
07:54Anyway, this guy is, he was arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of Hannah Rapp.
07:59Turns out that this guy had a lengthy, lengthy arrest warrant for all of them being for, you know,
08:12either driving while intoxicated, reckless driving.
08:16He had multiple arrests.
08:18This guy is Charles Medina.
08:20I think he was 31 from Texas.
08:22And this guy drives past her, hits it in reverse, and kills her.
08:27What a freaking loser.
08:29His list of offenses before this included assault, hit and run, deadly conduct, whatever that is.
08:35I mean, the guy was escaped from custody, theft, and possession of a controlled substance, as well as a series
08:40of driving offenses.
08:42The guy lived in a courtroom.
08:44And the guy was out driving, hits her, and kills her.
08:47Yeah, brutal.
08:48Just an awful story.
08:49He was there with her boyfriend, I guess.
08:51He drove past.
08:52I don't know if you read that detail.
08:54The boyfriend was like, hey, because he got too close.
08:57You know, the bikers get pissed if you get too close.
08:59And then they're assuming he got pissed and then threw it in reverse and slammed into her.
09:04And slammed into her.
09:05He claims that he thought they were flagging him down, and so he came back.
09:09And he claims he only hit her going 15 miles per hour.
09:12He's such a liar.
09:13Yeah.
09:14All right, so we've been talking.
09:15Like, if he's going to aid them, how about you just park your car on the side of the road.
09:19No, he was trying to hit her.
09:20And not put it in reverse and hit somebody on a bike.
09:22Yeah, he was trying to hit her.
09:24Arrested for manslaughter.
09:25Hopefully he goes down forever.
09:26All right, so we've been talking about LeBron for the last couple weeks.
09:29His agent, Rich Paul, said yesterday he does not know when his client will decide what team he's going to
09:36play for next year.
09:37He added that any teams interested in LeBron joining them do not need to do anything else to sway his
09:45client.
09:46And I don't know when he's going to make the decision.
09:49I have no idea.
09:50I thought it would be this week.
09:51We talked about it yesterday.
09:53I would assume it would be this week.
09:55But maybe.
09:56I don't know.
09:56Maybe he'll wait until mid-August.
09:58Apparently the leaders are 46% Heat, 27% Cavs, 16% Warriors, 15% Sixers.
10:08Where are you getting those percentages?
10:09That's just from an article that's quoting Kalshi.
10:13KP promotes Kalshi.
10:15Those are the current betting odds.
10:17I still think it's going to be Cleveland.
10:20So it's been three weeks since he's parted with the Lakers.
10:25It's been three weeks.
10:25Is that it?
10:26It feels like longer than that.
10:28Well, yeah, maybe.
10:29I think it's three weeks, but maybe it was a little bit longer.
10:31Maybe that's three weeks since he officially became a free agent.
10:34Possibly.
10:34I did see a quote where he mentioned his youngest daughter and the impact that her still being
10:42like 12, 13 years old or whatever, and her say and being comfortable and everything is
10:48going to factor in his decision.
10:49Apparently the family doesn't want to move, so they're going to stay in LA wherever he
10:52goes.
10:53That's why some people think San Francisco ends up in Golden State.
10:57It's a 45-minute flight.
10:58You can go back and forth.
11:01Got a home in the Cleveland area because after he did that boys trip with all of the 2016
11:09world champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers, where they were traipsing around Europe, having
11:14a blast, he ended up going back to his home in Cleveland and was kind of seen out and about
11:21there.
11:22Yeah, EB, that's going to be you in a bit, traipsing around Europe, having a good old time
11:25next summer.
11:26Sure.
11:26I was actually thinking about EB.
11:28Cobblestone streets, the whole nine.
11:29Have you seen the stories about the heat in Europe?
11:32I have not.
11:33Yeah.
11:33It's still normal.
11:34Record heats.
11:35They don't have an AC.
11:37Portugal.
11:38You know what?
11:38That's fine.
11:39I care about the heat here.
11:42I don't care that people in Paris or Lisbon or London, if they're sweating their balls
11:47off, it doesn't really affect me.
11:49Right.
11:50Honestly.
11:50I'm not saying if you're going to travel there.
11:53Which case is not?
11:54I'm going to travel there anytime.
11:56I know you have no interest.
11:58I know you have no interest.
11:59Not right now.
12:00Maybe down the road.
12:01Does your wife ever have interest in going to Paris?
12:04No.
12:05So she's insular much like you.
12:07Less than zero.
12:08We are a united front on this one.
12:11Is it you've influenced her that or has she always been that way?
12:15I think we're just both kind of...
12:16Like when she was 18, did she ever study abroad or anything?
12:20No.
12:21No.
12:22She's just not wired that way.
12:23I mean, she's been abroad with her family back, you know, like years and years ago.
12:27Been there, done that.
12:27Before her knight in shining armor came into her life.
12:31Yeah.
12:32Swept her off her feet.
12:33It's me, by the way.
12:34Yeah.
12:34For those that are unaware.
12:36Well, our buddy Chris Heck, who of course works for Live Golf, he's been over in Europe
12:40for...
12:40He was there last week.
12:42Yeah.
12:42For the Open.
12:44And now he's there this week because the Live event is in the UK this week.
12:49Is it actually...
12:50It's going on.
12:51It's occurring.
12:51All the guys are there?
12:52Well, it starts in two days.
12:54All the guys are there?
12:55They're there.
12:55I've been paying attention.
12:56I saw John Rahm actually at a press conference.
12:58I've seen some bad press for him.
13:00They had layoffs.
13:01Well, you're talking about the...
13:01And then they didn't pay some vendor or something?
13:04Yeah, there was a lawsuit from some...
13:05I don't know, some tech company for a million dollars.
13:09Right.
13:09I mean, was it a million?
13:11Yeah, I think it was a million.
13:12But anyway, yes, they're playing this week in the UK.
13:15But he said it's been awful over there because there's no AC.
13:17Yeah.
13:18And it's been so hot.
13:19Right.
13:20Now, it didn't look like it was that hot in Southport where they played for the Open.
13:26But maybe it's hot this week all over Europe.
13:29Maybe not in England, but everywhere else it's really, really hot over there.
13:3240% of France hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
13:35Yeah.
13:35And they got zippy AC over there.
13:36Well, Brando Chambly, I was talking about, I think he said...
13:3910,000 deaths expected.
13:41Oh.
13:41From the heat?
13:41Yeah.
13:42It's brutal.
13:43I think he said something like it.
13:44Every year he's been out for the Open, you know, covering it and playing his...
13:49One time, like out of 30-some years, he says he had air conditioning.
13:52Something like that.
13:53Like, it's just not a thing.
13:53Yeah.
13:54What are they doing over there?
13:55I don't know.
13:56Why don't they start...
13:56Maybe it's just so brief that it's not worth it.
13:58I just couldn't imagine going through a summer anywhere without at least access to an air conditioner.
14:04Right.
14:04You just want access to it.
14:05Like, I mean, there's global warming.
14:07Hello.
14:07It's going to get hotter.
14:09Why not just have companies put AC in your freaking house?
14:12I don't know.
14:12I don't understand it.
14:13Well, just get a window unit.
14:14It's also not necessarily part of the culture.
14:16I'm telling you.
14:17Maybe they don't sell them.
14:18One of my best friends is Italian.
14:20Grew up there.
14:21And when I go to his house in Gaithersburg, I'm amazed at their thermostat.
14:26It's like on 78.
14:28I walk in from...
14:29If it's 90 degrees outside, I walk into my house and it feels like I'm walking into a meat locker.
14:34It feels like I'm walking into the scene in Goodfellas where the guy's hanging on a meat hook in the
14:39butcher truck.
14:40It feels so good.
14:41I walk in.
14:42I'm like, ooh, goosebumps.
14:45And it's glorious.
14:46You wouldn't feel good over there.
14:48No.
14:49I told you this years ago when we went to Cinque Terre in Italy.
14:57Kelsey booked everything.
14:59And we take a train.
15:02We get there.
15:03We got to go down these cobblestone streets and then up the cobblestone streets to our little Airbnb.
15:07Yeah.
15:08No air conditioning.
15:09It was brutal.
15:10Non-air conditioning B&B is what it should have said.
15:12It was so bad.
15:14Well, JP, times change.
15:15They need to get with the current times and get AC units in their house.
15:20Because next summer, there's going to be another heat wave over there.
15:23I guarantee it.
15:23Or maybe they don't have the heat that lasts months like they do over here, depending on where you live.
15:29But they're going to have it again.
15:31And you need AC.
15:33Or do you just want to die?
15:3410,000 people just die.
15:36They're just so stupid.
15:37The people that are going to die, I don't know.
15:40I would assume they're like homeless?
15:41Well, probably the elderly.
15:43Probably older.
15:43Older people.
15:44People, yeah.
15:45Are affected more by the heat?
15:46Yeah.
15:47Okay.
15:48Doesn't make any sense.
15:50Right?
15:51I mean, to not have AC?
15:53I don't know.
15:54I told you, I grew up going into the country in Ohio.
15:56And my aunt and uncle, and they had money.
15:58They just didn't have AC for many, many years.
16:01You would probably walk into my house sometimes and go, he doesn't have AC.
16:05It's that.
16:06From the feel of it.
16:07Oh, you'd walk into mine.
16:08You'd know the AC is cracking.
16:10So, speaking of Liv, our boy Bryson, apparently he threatened to call Trump.
16:15He and Trump were boys.
16:17And he threatened to call Trump after getting...
16:20Well, Trump fixed the red card, so why couldn't he fix this?
16:22That's right.
16:23After getting the two-pop penalty at the open.
16:25What a baby.
16:27Yeah.
16:28If that's what happened, I mean, was he called?
16:31Did anybody hear him say that?
16:33I don't know where that came out.
16:34People reported that.
16:35Probably true.
16:36I'm sure it was.
16:37Hey, look, if you feel like the president can help you, help you out of a sticky wicket,
16:42I don't have a problem with him trying to exhaust that resource.
16:46He pulled out the Trump card.
16:48So, he held up the tournament for how long?
16:51An hour.
16:5245 minutes to an hour?
16:54People were upset they weren't getting their teeth.
16:55I know you were upset at Rory, but...
16:57Hour and a half, maybe.
16:58I can't see how you take Bryson's side.
17:01I just take it aside in terms of, I don't think it was clear-cut that he was trying to
17:05cheat or, you know, he trampled all over the grass on purpose.
17:09I mean, you got to get back there.
17:10You got to get behind your ball.
17:12I don't know how you get behind your ball and not step on the grass.
17:15He appeared to me to not want to, you know...
17:18Step on the ball.
17:19Not make his ball move.
17:21You got to be kind of careful.
17:22I didn't think it was some clear-cut thing.
17:23And I see a lot of players, a lot of caddies out there supporting Bryson's.
17:28I mean, if you don't know where the ball is, you're going to go in there and trample
17:31down the grass.
17:32And try to find it.
17:32And then when you find the ball, that's when the rule kicks in.
17:35But he didn't do it on purpose.
17:37No.
17:38I didn't.
17:38Rory and Fleetwood and McIntyre, all those guys, they would have done the same thing.
17:42Mm-hmm.
17:43I don't know.
17:44All right.
17:44Got to take a break.
17:45When we come back, we'll talk about a story.
17:48If you get pulled over by the police and you try to use this excuse, and I'm going to say
17:54EB might be the most likely to use it in this room.
17:57I've used...
17:57I've got a couple.
17:58You're probably not going to get away with it.
18:00We'll get into that next here on The Fan.
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