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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Best of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: Hosts react to Rizzo, Martinez firings

The Kevin Sheehan Show

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News, Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Nationals fired GM/President of Baseball Operations Mike Rizzo and manager Davey Martinez on July 6, hours after a Nats loss, leaving many in shock just a week before the All-Star break and MLB Draft. Listen as our hosts reacted on Monday, and then, why Grant Paulsen, our resident baseball podcast host, needs ownership to release more than just the one statement about the firings!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back. Chuckies company live on 106, 7 the fan and the team 980 here in the DMV.

0:06.3

Talking about the nationals firing both Mike Rizzo, their GM, and Davy Martinez, the manager.

0:15.3

Of course, they won a World Series in 2019, but since then, the nationals have had the second worst record in all of Major League

0:21.0

Baseball. This year, there are only two teams worse than them. So they're let go. Is it the right

0:27.8

move? And is it the right time? They've got a draft coming up in a week. They have the number one

0:33.7

pick. So now it's their assistant GM who takes over. Let's go back to the phones.

0:39.1

All right. Let me see here. Let's go to Don in Ashburn. Don. What's up, man? Go with the

0:45.0

jockeys. Hey, what's up, fellas? Are you, buddy? Yeah, I think right move, right time.

0:51.0

Because I think that probably, you know, letting Rizzo go, especially

0:54.6

at this time, is probably an indictment on him in terms of talent that they probably didn't

0:58.8

want him making the selection.

1:00.1

I don't know that I necessarily agree with Rizzo so much being let go, but you've got to spread

1:05.2

it out amongst all of it, the ownership with being the bulk of the problem and not willing

1:10.1

to spend the money.

1:11.5

But, you know, Davies win percentage is not fantastic.

1:15.3

Rizzo, I guess, I think he's been there, what, 16 years?

1:17.9

We've got, you know, one appearance in the World Series and the win.

1:20.5

And we grinded that thing out, right?

1:22.4

I think outside of the four-game sweep of the Cardinals, it was a grind to get that World Series.

1:28.6

That's not a negative.

1:29.5

That's not a negative.

1:30.6

No, no, not at all.

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