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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Best of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: June 30-July 3, 2025

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The Nats have a new jersey sponsor, but they don’t have a certain high-tech pitching machine? We discuss both of those, and hear from Barry Svrluga on the state of the big club and minor-league broadcaster Jack Smith on the farm system! Plus, James Wood gets some love as we celebrate his first anniversary as a big-leaguer, dot on him joining the HR Derby, and wonder why he didn’t get much love on the All-Star ballots!

Transcript

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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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