It's the Kevin Sheehan show.

Denton Day sitting in for Kevin here on the team 980.

Chris Russell takes over at 1 p.m.

Nats in action tonight.

They're at home taking on the San Diego Padres after a couple days off due to the MLB All-Star break.

Michael Soroka on the mound for the Nationals. He'll be taking on Dylan Sees for the Padres. Joining us now to preview the second half of the season for the Nationals is the host of of the Lockdown Nats podcast, Ryan Clary. You also hear on periodically on 1067, The Fan. Stallion, my friend, one, I haven't seen you in a while, so I hope you're doing well, but how are you? I'm doing well, man, you know, just got off from vacation, so this is actually day one back, and it's Friday. So, I mean, kind of kind of a nice day, then. You are a better man than me for coming back after vacation working a Friday. I would have told the boss, I've been like drab, CK, I, you know, playing got stuck.

I don't know what happened. I would have told the boss,

I've been like drab, CK, I, you know, plane got stuck. I don't know what happened. I'm not here. I mean, the plane did. I was actually supposed to be back Wednesday night, but the fight got canceled. And it was a whole fiasco. I mean, I had the worst travel 24 hours that I'm sure I'll catch you up in when I see you in a few minutes.

Where did you go?

So I was actually up in when I see you in a few minutes.

Where did you go?

So I was actually up in Maine in Waterville, Maine the past few days, and I was with my girlfriend,

and we stayed up there, and yeah, it was a ton of fun there, middle of Maine, because kind of

the middle of nowhere, I had so many lobster rolls. I mean, it was incredible.

I mean, Maine is silly. I went to Maine in October. It's silly. All right, enough about Maine.

Nats back in action. Expectations for the second half of the year. It'll obviously look a

little different. No Rizzo, no Davey. Are they in tank mode or are we still expecting some decent

amount of wins? Well, they can't tank at this point then because they can't pick inside the top

10, but also I don't really think this team is going to win. I just did a show on this today,

actually. And I believe that this team and really just where they are now, you've got to set

yourself up for 2026 and beyond.

So I do think there are going to be a lot of losses, a lot of growing pains.

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