Nationals Take Down Their For Sale Sign
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Sports Junkies break down the Lerner family's decision to not sell the Washington Nationals.
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| 0:00.0 | The Junks are presented by Crop Metcalf, the official heating and cooling company of the |
| 0:05.1 | junks. |
| 0:07.4 | If you heard Savannah McCann during the update, she mentioned what we wanted to talk about here. The Nationals have been taken off the market. They're |
| 0:15.4 | no longer for sale. Managing Principal owner Mark Lerner says, quote, it's not the time or the place. |
| 0:23.4 | Mark Lerner told the Washington Post on Monday |
| 0:26.1 | that the team will remain under the families control. |
| 0:30.2 | Nat's took the for sale sign off the front of the Nats Park. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, I mean, just my guess was pretty simple to me. |
| 0:37.5 | They didn't get what they're asking. |
| 0:39.0 | I mean, they want 2.4 billion. |
| 0:40.4 | No one's giving them 2.4 billion for the steam yeah I was going to say |
| 0:44.0 | is that because they're not getting the offers and what I really would want to know is |
| 0:48.1 | that mean they'll start spending again that's a great question because they were spenders for a while they were not necessarily |
| 0:56.3 | the top team spending but they were amongst the top spending teams there for a while |
| 1:02.0 | giving huge contracts to pitchers like Scherzer and obviously |
| 1:07.8 | Stephen Strasbourg given big contracts to a lot of players along the way and then all of a sudden they became |
| 1:16.5 | a bargain basement team. |
| 1:18.2 | It is really shocking. I mean the league average payroll for 2024 is 147 million dollars. |
| 1:26.4 | That's the league average. |
| 1:27.8 | Because the top teams, I don't know if you have the top teams. |
| 1:30.7 | Okay, give me the top three teams. The Dodgers. |
| 1:34.3 | Spatrack. The Yankees coming at $290 million. |
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