The new president of baseball operations for your Washington Nationals, Paul Toboni, who once played for the Hawaii allies?

Elitees.

Good Hawaiian, JP. Good pronunciation.

Does it look like allies?

I don't know. We're trying to get to know him a little bit here during the break and everything.

And he played college, but he didn't really highlight that you know

they highlight what you've been doing with the red socks and your rise from an intern now to president

baseball ops but before that you were a ball player yep i kind of got that feeling when you were talking

about tag plays and stuff all right yeah i care about that sort of small things. But yeah, it's funny you mentioned the Hawaii's.

That was like one of the best summers in my life.

It has to be.

After my freshman year of college maybe.

And they had us in a hotel right by Waikiki Beach.

And I remember like Jock Peterson was just out of high school living right down the hall.

And I mean, just a ton of great people and great players that it made for a really fun summer. I would imagine. Yeah. It is amazing. Summer in Hawaii. Yeah, it must be nice. But I mean, this guy's a brainiac. He went to Cal. Then he goes to Notre Dame. I was telling him, you know, Mike Bray is a good friend of mine, and he's a hoops fan, so he knows who Mike is, and I was telling him that I talked to Mike about you being hired, and he said,

well, tell him that I got a hookup for tickets. If you want to go to Hawks games, you've got to hook up, too, because he's an assistant with the Hawks, but he wants to come up. Come on, he's all things D.C.

He's going to want to go to Wizards games and now Caps games.

He's here in D.C. now.

But he's a Washingtonian as well.

But I wanted to ask you, how did this all He's going to want to go to Wizards games and now Caps games. He's here in D.C. now. But he's a Washingtonian as well.

But I wanted to ask you, how did this all come about?

I mean, obviously, you were doing a great job in scouting with Boston.

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