Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Natschat podcast.

Walters is the best spot to go before and after home games,

located at the southeast corner of Capitol and End Streets, right across the street from the ballpark.

We're excited about the guys we got.

And as I said before, you know, I know Riz is constantly looking to get us better.

So, you know, we might be adding some more players in the near future.

We're definitely looking for some more bullpen help if we can.

And welcome to Natchchat for Friday, February 14th, 2025, Valentine's Day, 2025.

A happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate, along with MadisonSports.com, National's Insider, Mark Zuckerman.

It was in West Palm Beach, Florida, side of 2025 National Spring Training.

I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast, and we are with you with the first of our spring training episodes of Nats chat. We're during the regular season, of course, do an episode for the morning after every Nats game. We're during spring training, we're going to be doing at least one episode per week. It is great to be with you for what is season number five of the Natschat podcast. You can find us on X at Nats underscore chat. You can find us on Blue Sky at Natschat podcast. You can email the show, Natschatpodcast at gmail.com. We always love hearing from you. We have a website that we invite you to check out Natschatpodcast.com in which you can purchase a Natschat podcast t-shirt, which are very much for sale. Also, if you would like to sponsor the podcast,

if you would like to advertise on this podcast, all kinds of ways that you can do so, we also, again,

are offering shoutouts on the podcast. Hit up the man who runs the podcast, Tim Schovers.

Again, that email address is Nats chat

podcast at gmail.com. National's spring training has begun. We have a lot to talk about here,

as we have not done an installment of this podcast. And over a month, we have a Nationals

payroll conversation that we need to be having. We have some Nats news from the last few days. But we have Mark Zuckerman and West Palm Beach, Florida. And as we are freezing in the Washington, D.C. area, as we have been dealing with snow and ice and everything else, Mark is basking in the sun of Florida. And we're all jealous. How you doing, my friend?

I'm doing great, Al. It's good to see you. It's good to hear your voice. I'm glad you're doing well. And it's great to be back for another season, back here in spring training, back with you

guys to continue this. What I think we all agree, the first four seasons that we've done of this

podcast, the expectations for the

nationals were very different.

They were pretty low, especially the last two seasons.

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