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The Sports Junkies

Ted Leonsis Is Making Another Push To Buy The Nationals

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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From 05/08 Hour 2:

The Sports Junkies break down reports of Ted Leonsis making another push to buy the Washington Nationals.

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0:00.0

We open up the show talking about the Nationals 18 and 17 right now,

0:04.8

above 500 for the first time this late in the season since July of 2021.

0:10.8

We actually put up a poll of the day.

0:12.6

Like if the playoffs started today, they would be in as a wild card team.

0:16.0

Do you think they'll be able to maintain it?

0:18.0

You can vote at Junk's Radio right now,

0:20.0

27% say yes.

0:22.0

Hey, that's better than zero.

0:23.8

It is?

0:24.5

If we asked this question last year,

0:26.2

it would have been zero.

0:27.0

Reason for optimism for the Nazis.

0:28.9

I'm just a positive.

0:30.8

Speaking of the Nationals, still owned by the Lerner family, however, at one point they put the team up for sale, they seem to have pulled it, but the thought is that it eventually will be sold and the question that a lot of people

0:49.1

ask is is Ted Leosus the owner of the capitals and the Wizards, going to buy the Nationals.

0:55.9

We know he put up a bid and he's been in the running to buy the nationals before will he be in the mix once again.

1:08.6

And it seems like it's something that he wants to do, that he wants to make another bid.

1:14.0

Well, I'm sure he would also love to have all of that programming to add to

1:19.0

Monumental Sports Network throughout the spring and summer, where you have live nationals games basically every day of the summer and spring and this is he would love that this is coming from what berries for luga that said this to J.P. Finley that he expects him to make another

1:36.1

another bid. Yep later this year. Now I talked to a guy I know that that works

1:42.2

with Masson and he says this Massen thing is like it

1:45.1

doesn't matter who owns the team it's like in perpetuity that it's never gonna change

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