Best of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: June 30-July 3, 2025
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Danny, big day for the nationals. |
| 0:01.4 | A lot of things to get to here, so we'll just go rapid fire. |
| 0:03.8 | They made an announcement today at 11 a.m. |
| 0:06.4 | That they are going to have jersey patches. |
| 0:08.8 | Doesn't sound like that big of a deal. |
| 0:10.4 | Sounds like one of those business things that fans shouldn't care about. |
| 0:12.7 | Right. |
| 0:13.1 | Except that this is not that. |
| 0:14.8 | So it's an AARP patch. |
| 0:17.1 | So I say that and have to keep from smiling, and there's jokes to be inserted. |
| 0:21.8 | But they were the only team in Major League Baseball without naming rights on their ballpark |
| 0:26.4 | or a jersey patch until today. |
| 0:29.9 | It's just money that you've been turning down while essentially saying you're not getting enough money. |
| 0:35.7 | So this is kind of three-pronged in terms of what we blame that on. |
| 0:39.4 | The Mass and deal, which has been resolved, not having naming rights on your ballpark is an easy way to make some cash, and then getting a patch. |
| 0:47.3 | And we don't know the parameters of the deal. |
| 0:49.0 | It could be for a million or two a year. |
| 0:50.6 | It could be for $7 million a year. |
| 0:52.0 | I don't really know. But this doesn't mean |
| 0:54.5 | they're going to go sign an ace pitcher. This doesn't mean that Kyle Tucker's coming to |
| 0:58.1 | play the outfield as an MVP candidate next year, like most of us want. But it is a sea change |
| 1:03.5 | in for their entire existence. This ownership group has said, we're not putting a patch on our |
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