You want it. You need it. It's what everyone's talking about. The Kevin Sheehan Show. Now here's Kevin.

Barry's Verluga from The Washington Post is going to be my guest here shortly. We're going to talk to Barry about a lot of things, including the Caps Islander series and some bigger issue topics with the Capitals, knowing and understanding that many of you will

either be watching the game when this podcast is out or perhaps we'll listen to it after you've

watched Game 1 this afternoon. I'm going to get to the announcement later on in the show

that the Washington football team put out about no fans at FedEx Field.

I wanted to open the show with the news about the new Washington football team radio broadcast booth.

As most of you know, Julie Donaldson, who was at NBC Sports Washington, was hired by the team a few weeks ago.

She's the senior vice president of media.

One of her first responsibilities was to put together the new radio broadcast booth. Larry Michael

retired. And there was a lot of speculation about what the booth would be. And many of you certainly reached out to me

about Cooley and about Doc and about what their roles would be and would they remain a part of the

broadcast booth. And many of you were very kind in suggesting that I could be, you know,

someone that would be considered to be the play-by-play guy for that radio booth.

They made the announcement yesterday that Bram Weinstein, DeAngelo Hall, and Julie Donaldson

will be the new booth. So no more Doc, no more coolly, and yours truly was not hired

to do the job. I had conversations with them. I'm not going to lie to you.

I didn't have any conversations with Julie. Had conversations with Terry Bateman, who I've known for a while.

But they were going for a different booth. In the story in the post, there's a paragraph that reads,

the new broadcast will be more interactive

involving fans and will include references to pop culture and player's social media accounts

and the hope of drawing a new and diverse audience. I actually think I would have been pretty good

on the pop culture stuff. Not so much on the player's social media accounts, but they were

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