Tim Kurkjian Interview + Lockout Latest

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Mark & Al are back for the first edition of Nats Chat since the calendar flipped to 2022. Make sure to tune into the final portion of the podcast as we congratulate Tim Kurkjian for winning the BBWAA Career Excellence Award, which means he is headed to Cooperstown. We begin by checking in on where the MLB Lockout stands as it seems the two sides will finally sit down for the first time in over a month. Will Spring Training begin on time? (13:23) Juan Soto's sixteen year old brother, Elian, signed with the Nats recently. What to make of it? (17:24) Washington last month signed minor league deals with veteran infielders Dee Strange-Gordon & Maikel Franco. Plus, Sean Nolin will take his talents to South Korea. (32:52) Mark gives his expert insight into this year's Hall of Fame ballot that will be announced later this month. It is the final year of eligibility for Barry Bonds and the first for David Ortiz. The hosts have an updated discussion regarding the Steroid Era stars. (42:42) Jon Lester is retiring after earning exactly 200 career wins after spending part of his final season with the Nationals. Will he be a future Hall of Famer? (47:33) ESPN's Tim Kurkjian, who grew up in Bethesda rooting for the Senators, joins the podcast to chat about receiving the highest honor for a member of the Baseball media. Tim also gives his insights on Washington baseball history and how the Nats should proceed with Juan Soto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:19.5	And welcome to Natschat for Thursday, January 13th, 2020, along with National's Insider, Mark Zuckerman, of MadisonSports.com, I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
0:31.2	We are back together again, our first episode in the year, 2022. Interestingly enough, we are back with an episode for the day on which
0:38.6	Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association are holding their first bargaining session
0:44.0	since the lockout began on December 2nd. Geez, guys, take your time, okay? No rush here or anything
0:50.1	like that. Coming up on this installment of Nats chat, we will discuss the latest in the
0:54.2	lockout. We will discuss some Nats news over the last few weeks, including the Nats reportedly
0:58.9	closing in on signing Juan Soto's brother. We have the Hall of Fame vote to discuss. And we have a
1:04.9	special guest, ESPN, MLB writer and analyst Tim Kirkson, who will talk Nats and a lot more with us.
1:11.2	But Mark, I don't think that this is a coincidence that this episode of the pod is coming out
1:15.1	with MOB and the MLBPA talking again.
1:17.9	The two sides have been inspired by this podcast.
1:21.8	Can we take credit here for reopening the lines of communication?
1:25.6	Sure, Al.
1:26.4	I mean, there's been so little baseball talk for the last
1:28.9	month or so. Maybe they needed us to be talking to remind everyone that, oh yeah, maybe we should
1:34.0	actually get together and start doing this again. Huh? What do you know? Look, I'm glad they're
1:38.4	talking. That's good news. Do I think much is going to come of this particular session? Probably
1:43.1	not, because it's just the first
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