Yeah, can you hear me?

Yeah, we got you.

Go ahead.

I've been thinking, hold on. I'm only quiet because I was trying to think of my top five list of things that are going right for the naps. No, it's hard. And my silence is that I couldn't come up with even one. What about James Wood? It's so disappointing. Yeah. How could, I mean, listen, you got to love, he was in the home run derby. That was cool. I wouldn't mind having a number one starter named Gore. That's pretty good. Yeah. I wouldn't mind finding a different manager than Dave Martinez as much as I loved him. It was time. That's fine. Maybe a better than the interim and find someone who can come in. Maybe the team will get sold. There's that. But here's the thing. This all goes back, and I hate to say it, but it's true.

It all goes back to COVID. The nationals are the last remaining team that are suffering from

COVID fatigue because they never got the

World Series bump that they so desperately deserved and needed.

And after they won the World Series, obviously they couldn't take advantage of it.

And believe me, that kind of stuff doesn't just last a month at last years.

And I hope we're at the tail end of it.

But that, I think, explains a lot of what's going on with the NASS.

Well, and also, I mean, we've talked to some people who kind of know what's going on in ownership.

And there's a ton of owners.

Okay.

Mark Lerner is not the 100% owner. There's a bunch of people. Some of them want to sell the team. Some of them don't. Okay, it's got to kind of be unanimous. They all have to vote on it. And I'm not sure if Mark Lerner is one of those guys who wants to sell or maybe he doesn't want to sell, I'm not sure. But they're not spending any money. their payroll is low that's why this

mechanic and maybe he doesn't want to sell, I'm not sure. But they're not spending any money.

Their payroll is low.

That's why this McKenzie Gore trade deadline thing is interesting because, you know, he's a Boris guy.

He's not going to resign here.

He's going to go to a free agency after two more years, probably pitch really well for a contender if he gets traded, and get a big deal. And they're not going to sign him to a big deal. So does it make sense for the Nats to trade McKenzie Gore, even though everything I read say it's a long shot, maybe that's just kind of based on what they would get coming back? But does it make sense to trade McKenzie Gore? Well, you say that, but the reputation of Ted Lerner, who was a mentor of mine, and I miss him

very much as the patriarch of the team, and we'll get back to sort of what happened after he passed

away. But it's not like Ted Lerner and the Nats didn't do business with Scott Boris at all.

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