Blake Butera Introduced to D.C.
Nats Chat
Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Make Walters your spot for this NFL season. |
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| 0:07.0 | They're proud to show every NFL game every week. |
| 0:14.0 | When we set out to find our manager, |
| 0:16.0 | our goal was to find not only a great, ambitious baseball mind, |
| 0:20.0 | but an even better person. |
| 0:21.6 | We wanted someone whose character and values aligned with ours and whose experiences fit |
| 0:26.6 | are organizational goals. |
| 0:28.6 | As you've heard me say many times over the course of the last six weeks, I'm a strong believer |
| 0:32.6 | that you win with people, and Blake's character and ability to connect with everyone across the baseball |
| 0:37.6 | spectrum is second to none. |
| 0:40.4 | Builder relationships first, right? |
| 0:42.1 | We're make sure I get to know each one of these players. |
| 0:44.9 | I didn't play in the major leagues, but I was in their position not too long ago. |
| 0:48.8 | So I think understanding that just the pressures that go into playing this sport and playing |
| 0:53.0 | at a high level, whether it's family, there's a lot of stuff off the pressures that go into playing this sport and playing it at a high level, whether it's family. |
| 0:55.8 | There's a lot of stuff off the field that players are going through that can add to the stress of succeeding and playing this game. |
| 1:02.4 | And I think just understanding what they're going through and meeting them where they're at |
| 1:05.8 | and making sure they know they have someone they can always go to is really important. |
| 1:10.9 | And welcome to Natschchat, along with Massininsports.com, Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman, |
| 1:15.6 | who was at Nationals Park, Amalgaldi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. |
| 1:19.1 | We on Monday afternoon had the introductory press conference for the Washington National's |
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