Best of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: National Media reaction to Rizzo, Martinez firings

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

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 several members of the national baseball media weighed in on the firings and where the Nationals go from here in the Draft and the rest of 2025.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	And then ads have a new team president and general manager that they've got to decide on in the future and a new manager to hunt down this offseason.
0:09.2	We'll be talking about that with Jeff Passon in just a moment.
0:12.2	We're brought to you today every day by the law firm Kandorian Mirage.
0:15.9	Exclusively so.
0:16.9	You can hit them up for state planning, elder law, real estate transactions, probate administration.
0:21.0	Their attorneys are always there to protect junior family's assets, scheduling free consultation with their team today by visiting kmloyers.com.
0:28.4	And be sure to let them know that we sent you.
0:30.2	That's km lawyers.com.
0:31.6	A 17-word tweet, changed DC baseball for a long, long time last night.
0:36.9	It came from Jeff Passen right around
0:38.5	630 local time. The best writer covering baseball in America is also the top newsbreaker, and he
0:45.5	joins us now. The tweet was breaking the nationals and fired general manager Mike Rizzo and
0:50.5	manager Dave Eat Martinez. Sources tell ESPN.
0:56.4	So, Jeff, first of all, thanks for a few minutes.
0:56.9	How are you?
0:58.9	I'm doing great, guys.
0:59.5	How are you?
1:00.5	We are well.
1:02.1	We appreciate you making time for us.
1:03.1	We know you're busy.
1:05.1	What do you make of the timing of this?
1:07.3	The week of the Major League Baseball draft,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.