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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And away we go, episode one thousand one hundred sixty-eight of the Al-Galdi podcast. It is Thursday, October 2, 2025. It is the day after the start of a new era for the Washington Nationals. They, in a post on X at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, officially announced the hiring of Boston Red Sox Senior Vice President, Assistant General Manager, |
| 0:37.9 | Paul Toboni, as Nats president of baseball operations. Yes, 6 a.m. on Wednesday. While some of you |
| 0:45.8 | were sleeping. Well, some of you were up, say, walking your dogs. Well, some of you were working |
| 0:50.8 | out and getting huge. Well, some of you were returning home off engaging in |
| 0:55.8 | Deviant Axe. The Nats in a post on X at 6 a.m. on Wednesday officially announced the hiring |
| 1:02.5 | of Paul Toboni as Nats president of baseball operations. So we at 9 a.m. on Wednesday had his |
| 1:08.8 | introductory press conference, and there was a lot to this presser, including not one, not two, but three members of Nat's ownership being at the dais for the presser. |
| 1:21.3 | Now, my hope is that this was done in order for ownership to declare a new era in terms of spending on infrastructure and players. |
| 1:31.0 | We did not get any such declaration from the learner ownership group. |
| 1:36.3 | We did, though, get this declaration from Paul Toboni. |
| 1:40.7 | He is impressive. |
| 1:41.8 | Take a listen. |
| 1:43.7 | I'm stepping into this role with a clear vision, |
| 1:46.6 | and that vision is to be the highest performing organization in all sports. I want to help |
| 1:52.7 | build something that becomes the envy of all of sports, right, where we get X amount of |
| 1:58.7 | months and years down the line, and people are looking at this |
| 2:01.7 | organization like, shoot, I want to, I want to be part of that organization. |
| 2:06.2 | Paul Toboni, quote, I'm stepping into this role with a clear vision, and that vision is to be |
| 2:11.4 | the highest performing organization in all of sports, end quote, quite the statement, but you know what? Good for him |
| 2:19.6 | for saying that. In-depth reaction to and analysis of what was said by Paul Toboni and that's |
| 2:25.9 | managing principal owner, Mark Lerner, at this Paul Toboni intro presser coming up later in the show. |
| 2:32.1 | Hello and welcome to this Thursday installment of the Al Galdi podcast. |
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