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The Sports Junkies

How Can The Nationals Turn Things Around?

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From 10/01 Hour 2: The Sports Junkies debate how the Nationals can turn things around.

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0:00.0

Welcome back. Chuckie's coming to you live on 106.7 the fan and the team 980 broadcasting live from Nationals Park.

0:06.7

We're in the Terra Club. Behind us, they're setting up the press conference.

0:11.0

National is going to introduce Paul Toboni as their new president of baseball operations.

0:16.4

He's 35 years old. He's from San Francisco area.

0:21.2

He played college baseball, played in the college World Series.

0:25.4

Then he got his MBA.

0:28.1

And then he started interning.

0:30.2

Interning.

0:31.0

Now he's going to run a baseball team.

0:32.8

I mean, he started as an intern with the A's.

0:35.2

It was either 2012 or 2013.

0:41.1

And in 12 or 13 years, now send it to the top of running a major league baseball team is a pretty incredible story it's crazy before you know

0:45.5

our buddies who lived in Baltimore for years going to medical school and law school

0:52.7

Rob and Matt had a guy that lived with them.

0:56.6

They used to call him Rinkle Boy because he would come back from games and he would sleep on a

1:00.9

couch and then he would go back to work with his clothes all wrinkled.

1:04.7

It sounds like Eric Bickle coming into the junks with the same clothes he slept in.

1:09.5

So they dubbed him Rinkle Boy and then fast forward like a decade or 15 years later, they're watching on TV. The Red Sox win the World Series. And Theo Epstein's there. And they're like, holy crap, that's a wrinkle boy. You know what? I'm guessing he wasn't wearing a wrinkled shirt. Probably had like a $4,000 Armadi suit on.

1:28.0

No, but he's another guy who started as an intern and worked his bottom way up.

1:32.8

And Charlie Cassley did the same thing.

1:34.8

Our friend Charlie Cassidy, who was the general manager of the Washington Redskins for years,

1:39.7

started as an intern and worked his way up.

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