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"This is WTO P news. 7 53, some first responders who are fighting illnesses are fighting less red tape. Federal news networks true freed man has more. The office of workers compensation programs has updated its program to process claims of federal firefighters diagnosed with certain diseases. Prior to the policy change firefighters claims were only accepted about 29% of the time, but as of February 2023, more than 90% of processed claims have been accepted. The update comes after a provision in the 2023 national defense authorization act that federal firefighters start receiving workers compensation for cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer and other infectious diseases. The diseases are all common for federal firefighters after years on the job. Drew Friedman, federal news network. There is a major new initiative along the southern border to fight trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The Department of Homeland Security says operation blue lotus involves numerous agencies and has already stopped more than 900 pounds of the deadly drug from coming into the U.S. in just its first week. The operation includes an increase in targeted inspections and the deployment of K9 units and advanced technology at locations along the border. The Manhattan transfer is celebrating its 50th anniversary, farewell tour. The vocal group performs live at strathmore in North Bethesda Friday. This is a 50th anniversary show and will be performing with the great diva. So it's a little bit of a
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UK inflation jumps to 10.4%, surprising analysts
"Britain's inflation rate has risen for the first time in four months in February, as high food and energy prices hit consumers battered by the nation's cost of living crisis. The Office for national statistics says that the consumer price index jumped to 10.4% in the 12 months from February from 10.1% the previous month. The figures surprising analysts who had forecast inflation would slow to 9.9%. The data is increasing pressure on the Bank of England to approve an 11th consecutive interest rate increase when it meets on Thursday, regardless of concerns about the economic impact of strains on the global banking system. The office says high energy prices have continued to squeeze household budgets. Charles De Ledesma, London
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Fresh "Nationals" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Its sibley and suburban hospitals. Find out more at Hopkins cancer, D.C. dot org, Jack Taylor, WTO P traffic. And now to Chad Merrill. After a dip or two this morning, we break out into sunshine with temperatures in the 60s, tomorrow we are in the 70s with lots of sunshine by the afternoon, and then we pull back into the upper 50s with drizzle and light rain on Friday, mid 60s on Saturday, upper 60s to low 70s on Sunday. I'm storm team fours, Chad Merrill. Checking current temps 49 in college park where at 49 on the national mall 49 also outside our WTO studios in friendship heights. 6 40 money news attend and 40 passed the hour brought to you
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US: No reason for China to react to Taiwan leader stopover
"The U.S. is trying to tamper any anger from China over an upcoming stopover by Taiwan's leader. I'm Lisa dwyer. The Biden administration is stressing to China that upcoming unofficial stopovers to the United States by Taiwan's president Tsai ing Wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to increase aggressive activities in the Taiwan strait and that such transits are routine. Tsai is tentatively scheduled to transit through New York on March 30th before heading to Guatemala and Belize. She's expected to stop in Los Angeles on April 5th on her way back to Taiwan. Following an August visit by then House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Beijing launched missiles over Taiwan, deployed warships across the median line of the Taiwan strait and carried out military exercises near the island. Beijing also suspended climate talks with the U.S. and restricted military to military communication with The Pentagon. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the plans stopovers are business as usual and consistent with long-standing U.S. policy. I'm Lisa dwyer
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Biden presents arts medals to Springsteen, Kaling
"President Joe Biden presented the nation's highest honor for artists Tuesday at The White House. With the latest. Julia Louis-Dreyfus said, wow, and pretended her medal was weighing her to the ground. She was one of the recipients of the national medal of arts when she was given to a group that included Bruce Springsteen Gladys Knight and Vera Wang, President Biden gave Mindy Kaling her award and reminded her of her roots. Mindy Kaling, you know, from Massachusetts, but as we all know, Scranton, Pennsylvania, you made her who she is. Biden also presented several national humanities medals to a group that included authors Amy Tan Colson Whitehead and Anne patchett.
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The San Jose Sharks Go Woke
"Want to thank the hockey team, the Sam Jose sharks. For proving that my belief that the left is trying to decimate western civilization is accurate. I mean, literally accurate. They don't even know it. Because they are so far gone, the crappy education that they got at whatever college they went to at the San Jose sharks. Reinforced the idiotic and evil belief that western civilization is no better than any other. So I have proof for you, it's again a National Hockey League team, I love hockey. I will admit that if I lived in San Jose, it would become difficult for me to go to a shark game and support people who are actively undoing western civilization. So here is the story. It's from Fox News, but not but the butt was only that you can get it from any number of places. The San Jose sharks touted the existence of a third, this is a direct quote. A third or even fourth and 5th gender. In non western cultures on Twitter, sparking questions after critics pointed out one ancient culture the hockey team was referencing participated in human sacrifice.
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UN chief's call for ambition on climate gets muted response
"Some officials at a climate meeting in Copenhagen have given a muted response to calls from the head of the United Nations, the countries to show greater ambition when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking at the end of a two day meeting in the Danish capital, Egypt's summit shukri says there was no specific answer to the aspirational goals set out by UN secretary general Antonio Guterres when he urged rich nations to bring forward their target for achieving net zero emissions as close as possible to 2040. Shukri, who chaired last week's UN climate talks in Egypt, says these girls who will be met, I'm sure, addressed within the national context and within the national abilities, adding Egypt would have to rely on the transfer of technology. He says, from our friends and partners to wean itself off fossil fuels and ramp up the use of renewable energy. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"That the nationalists have gone through with the Orioles year after year after year. I think there's two things that are happening. One is people are either saying I'd like to buy that team when the situation is resolved or they're saying I'd like to buy that team at a discounted price because the situation is unresolved. So one, it's limiting the market of people who are bidding on this franchise or even showing cursory interest and two it's contributing to the fact that the learners have not received the price that they want because if they had, we probably might see the fact that the team might change hands. So that's sort of the bird's eye view. The other thing I would say just related to that real quick, this is verging on not being the reader's digest version anymore. But the other facet and telling measure for me is the nationals park is still called nationals park. There aren't many teams left to Major League Baseball who have maintained a non corporate name on their stadium for obvious financial reasons and I think it's telling for us that the learners are many, many years into their ownership of nationalist park and have made $0 on the naming rights because they have never found their price. So if that's an indication of their negotiating style, when it comes to corporate sponsors, it can be very instructive for us to understand how they're also approaching the sale of the team. So whoever owns the franchise, the success of it is kind of contingent on the national drafting and developing good players and that has been a problem for them of late quoting here from Jared seidler's baseball prospectus annual essay in recent times the nationals have systematically overvalued hitters who look good by traditional scouting methods, sweet looking swings, nice shows of power and batting practice, old school notions of physical protecti while ignoring glaring foz exposed by analytics, pour in its own contact rates, low exit velocities, high chase rates. He goes on to say that they've been similarly mapping on the pitching side consistently acquiring pitchers who throw hard, but don't get whiffs on their fastballs and have major durability question marks. They have paired poor drafting with poor player development. They're just haven't been success stories of hitters unlocking power from new swing path or pitchers learning great sweepers to pile up more whiffs. So where do the nationals stand from a player development scouting R&D perspective? I know that you've reported that they've made some additions analytics and player development in sports science. So how do they compare to the rest of the league and have they caught up or at least narrowed the gap? Yeah. Two things there is one I've often wondered as the nationals continue to play catch up in these areas, what they're missing, which I think is a major thing because closing the gap is tough in terms of getting to where some of these more progressive franchises have gotten because you're constantly doing what they were doing three to 5 years ago. If not longer. So that's hard. That's a hard space to live in and I'm not quite sure how you get there. I do think in the last two off seasons they've made some material changes in terms of staff and pure gear for technology. What comes next to me is more of a culture change around it. How do we actually translate the players? How do we get our coaches on board to work with our performance analysts we've hired to work with our biomechanics that we've hired to work with our R&D staff that we've expanded to include more hands in player development specifically. Now, I do think that with financial investment will come culture investment because it's to some level like you don't want to pay for these things and not use them. And whether they'll use them effectively or whether they'll use them to the extent they should is a much bigger question that I think we won't know the answer to for a few years now when this current class of prospect cycles out and we understand their development a bit better. But there seems to be a commitment to actually adding and not just being at cosmetic ads actually trying to add to the process. They've gotten much more deliberate in their specific player plans. They've added Hawkeye at 6 stadiums nationalist park on down to their affiliate in West Palm Beach. So there are some changes happening, but I want to be really clear my own writing and then when I talk about it on podcasts like this that it's not all that's needed that there needs to be a push from the top down to actually make this a part of the organization's identity and culture and get away from a lot of those maybe scouting habits or player development habits that the Jared mentions in that essay, which I thought was really limitative of a lot of the problems nationals have had in growing talent in the system and translating it to the major leagues. So your colleague berries for Luca recently ranked all 19 Washington Nationals spring training just in terms of the excitement or buzz or hope associated with the team in 2023 came in dead last. Is there anything that should offer some excitement for this season? Anyone on the roster who has some sort of breakout potential or someone you think is unsung underappreciated just anyone who could come up during the year just other than Joey and perhaps progress from some of the post type prospects that we've discussed is there anyone here who fans should be excited to see. I think the biggest draws are the players we've talked about. Both for their falls and for their potential, just seeing if those can get ironed out. I mean, hunter Harvey is a one thing reliever, so it's not necessarily like a reason to come to the ballpark every night, but I think he was a really interesting waiver claim and they've seemed to work on his mechanics to the point where he's able to stay healthier than he did with the Orioles. Obviously he was a very highly talented prospect to hard thrower first round pick, all those things that didn't pan out in Baltimore because of his inability to stay on the mound. So but with the nationals he has and that's been encouraging and he's pitched really well. So that's one player.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Of main piece of that trade from the beginning, not just after some off season ruminations, I think it was easy to point to Robert hassell because he had played more minor league ball or CJ Abrams because he major league level or Mackenzie gore because of the amazing sort of April and May he had had last season. But from the beginning, the first thing I would hear about that trade was that they were just elated to get James wood and elated that and the Padres on the other end were the most reticent to give him up. So he's that player industry. He's obviously not supposed to replace one sodor but you want soda. That's Joey manesis, Jeff. Right, exactly. And also he doesn't have to because he has Joey. But I would say he's that main player. And it strikes on recognition is supposed to be really, really good, which again, yes, we've heard about another left handed outfielder in the national system in recent years. But also the way he cut down his strikes strikeouts from high school at IMG to his first year with the Padres was remarkable and it went from almost cut in half from above 30% to below 20% and he's kept that rate up. If not, you know, to a T, but he stayed in that range and he is not spiked again as he's gone up to hi. So I'm interested to see where he starts. It could be higher, but I think it would be a quick trip there. The double-A jump is probably going to be more telling for him, just in terms of facing other teams, better prospects on the pitching side. So yeah, I mean, he's definitely probably reason number one for nationals fans to be excited, which is hard because he's far away from the big league field still. And then elsewhere in the trade hassles dealt with a broken handy, which a lot of guys are dealing with. It feels like there's no foley and then now he's dealing with a wrist injury that might resolve the other day said he feels might be a product of sort of over swinging and overworking and swinging a lot in the aftermath of the handmade trade to try and catch up development wise. So they have to definitely look at that. I mean, he's someone who's supposed to have contact gap to get power if he continues to have risk problems that could really set those tools and would not be good. So that's something to look out for, but he's been a bit slowly on the spring training, so I haven't seen him quite as much down here. Mackenzie gore is struggle with command. I think last year there were some habits created. When you had the elbow inflammation that ultimately shut them down for that second half of the season, he also hasn't been known the miners to struggle with his release points and consistent mechanics and I think we're seeing that a bit down here where his fastball command has been off and then everything's kind of fluttering off of that. So, you know, spring results again are spring results, but I think he has something to prove going to D.C., not just because he's a young guy, but also because he's created some question marks with his ability to command the strike zone down here. And then Harley and Susanna, and I want to forget him. I went down to see him in Fredericksburg last year in August, and I turned around and Mark Lerner was sitting a few rows behind me. And I was like, you know, it's not very often that the owner comes down to see 19 year old pitching prospect, but when he throws a 105, what he did, he hit a 104.8 that day. I guess that's when the owner makes a trip down from D.C.. So of course, he's a long way from the majors. I'm very curious to see sort of where his development goes from here. They were starting him just to control his innings and the way he entered next to games. I do imagine that he'll end up in the bullpen, especially with that fastball, but he's throwing a 95 mph slider. He's one of these alien types when it comes to velocity, and it was cool to see it in person. And we'll see how that goes from here. So maybe we can talk about a former top prospect returned in a big trade in keeper wheeze. I'm curious how the extension that he signed this off season came together. What the club's expectations are for him this year, but also what the duration of that extension might mean for their understanding of when they could be competitive again. Yeah, so it came together fairly quickly. I think from the outside, a lot of people will point to the fact that Ruiz left Scott Boris, who is generally averse to pre free agency or even pre arbitration extensions and went to octagon, a different agency, and then the extension came together quickly, I can't quite speak to what any of them. I'm still trying to report it out myself, but whether this conversation is only began post agency switch, but that sort of some of the subtext that's at least out there. And it's worth mentioning at the very least. As far as how it came together, it came together quickly, the nationals approached him with around the numbers that he ultimately signed for, which is 8 years. 50 million front loaded with a signing bonus this season, and then it basically buys out his all this team control years and adds on three years of free agency and then two club options on the back end. So it could be a ten year deal club options or a jump in salary as they typically are. And but it does sort of extend him three seasons beyond what they would have had. So I think in terms of
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Back Jesse. Thanks so much for having me, guys. I don't know how much short term good news there's going to be in this Washington Nationals preview segment, but let's start with the worst news. People know the drill, I guess, what it comes to Tommy John surgery, but Kate cavalli is having it, not great news, tell us how big a blow this is to him personally, his long-term prospects and the nationals rotation prospects for 2023. Yeah, it's a multi pronged bad for sure, I think. First off for cade, not good, just in the sense that he was pitching pretty well in spring training. He was looking forward to this first full season and it's a major blow. Probably much more psychologically than physically, given that the surgery is evolved a lot over the years. For the nationals, the most cynical read is that they don't need to win this year, that if your player is going to get hurt, and this is, you know, I hold my nose even while saying this, but if a player is going to get hurt, it's probably not the worst time, but I think from a fan engagement perspective from being able to sell this rebuild, you're now entering the second full season of a major part of that was three out of every 5 nights. You come to the ballpark and you can see Mackenzie gore or Josiah gray or Kate kavale and that going down to two out of 5 is tough. And it makes them much less marketable in the short term. It definitely lessens excitement about this young core that they're trying to sell and that they're trying to build around. And then also, if you want to sort of go beyond that and from a team building perspective, it delays you knowing what you have in a recent first round pick in the top prospect and a guy you've sort of penciled in as part of this rebuild. Whether or not he's your future ace, you were hoping he was a part of a rotation for years to come. So if you think about the recovery, it's a year at least, and then you're looking at it in these limit and probably for the next couple of seasons after that. And so I don't know if we'll fully know what Kate cavalli is for a good while now, beyond just the typical recovery from Tommy John. So while we're talking about the nationals top pitching prospect or at least he was before this injury, let me pivot from a young guy to a veteran and ask about a former nationals top pitching prospect. And a guy who had an inkling himself as I recall, Stephen Strasburg is there any chance that we see him this season is there any chance at this point that he pitches again? This is a fun start. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty dire on the Strasbourg front. I think that continued complications from thoracic outlet. Syndrome surgery, coupled with sort of the wear and tear of his whole career is what we're dealing with. I think that a lot of people might say, well, Chris archer came back or Merrill Kelly recovered from this surgery and had a sort of Second Life on their careers to the point where maybe those guys aren't what they once were supposed to be, but their serviceable pictures in a rotation, which at this point for Strasbourg would be a major win for the nationals. The difference there is that is the strawberry comes at it from having Tommy John surgery, having repeated problems with his neck and shoulder. The right side of his body from hip on up is, you know, has experienced a lot of physical trauma as far as baseball players go. Throwing a baseball over and over as hard as you can is not natural. We know that. So the challenge he's facing with, he's facing is that he's not quite in the bucket of some of these TOS success stories. He's more on the bucket of Chris Carpenter of Kenny Rogers of maybe some of the guys who had it years ago, but did it as sort of a last ditch attempt that I can't quite get right. There's nerve damage between my neck and shoulder or whatever it may be. And I'm going to try this surgery to extend my career, not necessarily be a third starter for the next 8 years, but try and get if you could season this before I go off into the sunset. We've seen now how difficult that's been for Strasbourg, another setback right before spring training kept him home he has not been in West Palm Beach. He's back in D.C.. I'm curious to see when the season starts, how much he's around day to day. I mean, it's still his job technically to rehab and make good faith effort to be back on the field. For everything I've heard, he still wants to do that. He was on his second bullpen session of the winter when he had his setback. The latest one, but there's also long-term comfort involved here. I mean, there was times last season where he told me that if he stood up too long, his arm would get so numb and he had to lay on his side to regain feeling. And this is one with young children and conceivably a whole life to live beyond baseball that I think now you're thinking about what that might look like, not just this attempt to get back on the mount.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"To DJ le mayhew, I don't know that this Julie could be considered a bounce back season for him. He was so good before the all star break last year, and then the toe started giving him trouble. This is where the silver lining of the Yankees infield glut comes into play because they got a lot of infielders, but they got DJ le mayhew, who, you know, you don't know if that toe, which never had surgery this off season will hold up through a full year. So maybe you need those extra guys. Maybe you need to watch DJ lemieux he was workload and play him only 5 games a week, and you need those extra bodies. I don't know. You're talking about how athleticism is going to be more important than ever for middle infielders, particularly second baseman with the shift restrictions, while if he's out there running on a bum toe, you're going to drive him into the ground earlier than he did last year. So, you know, I think that the skills are there for DJ. It's just about whether his toe is going to hold up and whether the Yankees can keep him upright. So man, it's tough to say on both Donaldson and DJ but I would think the outlook is better for DJ. And at catcher trevino really sees that job became an all star gold Glover. He led the league in framing according to fan crafts. There is still a lot of hope out there for Kyle higashioka bat and he did seem to underperform some of his peripherals last year. He's got good strike zone judgment. So do you expect that trevino will still get the bulk of the playing time there? Absolutely. The Yankees love him behind the plate. They love him from a strike stealing standpoint. They're really gonna even more appreciate his throws over the first base. The staff throws. Because he'll give either more opportunities to pick off runners at first base. But also low key, he'll throw it over the first base just to give the pitcher maybe a breath or two between pitches, knowing that the pitch clock is putting him up against it and, you know, kind of have him against the ropes. So I think it'll be trevino. I think that Kyle higashioka, I know that Kyle believes that he figured something out in his swing, late last season, in August. Kind of made himself a little bit more contact oriented. And if you go back and look at his numbers, like I think he hit two 80, the rest of the last 30 games that he played in. So that's an improvement. And Kyle is such a smart guy. He really will figure it out, you think. But I think that trevino is the kind of unquestioned starter with Kyle there as a really high quality backup on the cusp of challenging him for playing time. Yeah, it's interesting you mentioned the back picks. Noah Woodward in his substack, the event scout wrote the other day about how sometimes there's a tradeoff if you're a catcher, lots of catchers have gone to the one knee set up now in part because it does help you frame low pitches and so trevino does that too. Often it can be kind of an either or that can make it tough to get up and throw and do a back pick quickly. But if you don't do that, you're surrendering sometimes you have to make a kind of calculus because on a pitch when you try it back pick, you don't get the chance to frame and also if you're down on one knee, it might be tough to do the back pick. You end up potentially losing strikes on those pitches, even if they're fairly close. So there's kind of an interesting cat and mouse calculus that catchers have to make. Yeah, they're in. There is. But Rizzo and trevino last year are super on the same page with that. They coordinate themselves and I'm sure that a lot of catchers do this. But they coordinate themselves on when that snap throws in a comfrey pitch. And I'm sure the picture is in on that to an extent too. So I think that there is some coordination there and when you are giving a bit of that strike zone control, a bit of that pitch framing superiority, when you're giving it away, you know it's what the possibility of grabbing someone gets at first base. I think trevino far and away had the most back picks last year. I think it was something silly. Like, I think he outpaced the field almost by double. So I don't know whether Yankees Twitter is representative of Yankees fandom in real life. But certainly seemed that Yankees Twitter was not thrilled about both Aaron Boone and Brian cashman being back, although given their longevity and given how operates it was not a huge surprise given that the Yankees all told had a fairly successful season despite the strange trajectory of it. So do those guys just kind of have unlimited leashes like is there anything that could jeopardize them? Obviously Brian cashman came back after his contract ran out. So is there anything they actually could do to jeopardize their jobs and should Yankees feds be happier to have them than they are? I mean, I think that Brian cashman is by far more safe than Aaron Boone is and I think that goes without saying. Just one from UC how long he's been in the job and how long he's been in the Yankees organization, really he goes back to I think a year before I was born in 86 and I think he's been in the organization for that long.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I think there's no chance that the Yankees don't take the opportunity to do that. Considering volpe's age and that is essentially what the Yankees did with labor Torres in 2018. It was very clear like he should be the starting second baseman yet it was Neil walker for the majority of the beginning of the season until I think April 22nd. And then they promoted glare from triple-A and also it's very stunningly similar in the amount of development too. Labor had 20 something games at triple-A when it was pretty clear that he's the option, then he ended up needing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow before he can get called up, played another 20 games in 2018 at triple-A, and then got promoted. Say, vote we play another 15, 16, 20 games, triple-A, promote them, and now we're looking at the vote the era with the Yankees. I think that's entirely possible, but then you kind of wonder what happened with Isaiah kind of forever. What happens with labor Torres? The infield log jam really hasn't been settled yet. So I don't know how they're going to make that happen. Yeah, of course, when those guys were coming up, they didn't have the same incentives to have him on the opening day roster that they do now, because if they don't, and he wins, rookie of the year plays a second. He'll get service time and they'll get nothing, so I wonder how that is factoring into their calculus with these sorts of things. Do you have a sense of that? No, I really think that you can't, I don't know. This is just me. That seems like such a crazy thing to bang on, right? Yeah, you think your guy is good, but could you promote a guy and get an extra two weeks and say, we're so confident that he's going to be rookie of the year that we're going to go for it now and not just hope to defend things off for two weeks before he shows up. I think that's such a tough, tough, tough thing to try to bang on. Well, one guy who they don't need to worry about from a service time perspective, because he is an established veteran as Anthony Rizzo, who returned on a two year deal, and I'm curious what your sense of his year is going to be. He was quite good for New York last year. He had his best season since 2019 and he was the first Yankee I think since first lefty Yankee since 2012 to hit as many home runs as he did. He also had terrible luck against the shift. So what are your expectations for what his offensive performance might look like this year? I think that he's going to be really good provided that he can stand upright. His back sounds worse than my dad's in his 66. The lower back issues that Rizzo has been dealing with haven't been all that inspiring for the Yankees. That said, they did just hand them a two year $40 million contract. So they're making a $40 million bet that is back doesn't suck as much as we think it does. So, okay, sucky back aside, there's no reason why Anthony Rizzo can't see his batting average skyrocket with the shift restrictions. Maybe teams will take a left Fielder and put them into shallow right the way that teams would with the second baseman last season, we don't know exactly how prevalent that's gonna be, but Rizzo's hotspots, you look at how he hits, he often will lift balls to left field. So, you know, if you tempt fate by putting the left Fielder over there in right field, you're looking like giving Rizzo basically an automatic double, even though he's slow as hell. I think that the batting average could take up, I think that the home runs should be there. I think that their teams are not going to be pitching him, like they were when they were trying to pitch him into the shift. So he might get more pitches out over the plates. I already got a good eye. I just think that, you know, late in his career, Anthony Rizzo has a chance to really step up beyond what he's been since, say, 2020 where it's still a really good hitter, but just not the peaks that he was at in 2016, 2017, 2018. And while we're talking about veteran infielders, maybe we can also cover le mayhew and Donaldson, what are the expectations for them in terms of probability of bounce back? And if Donaldson doesn't bounce back, then could he lose playing time in to whom? So we talk about how spring training numbers don't count, right? Then we talk about how they especially don't count for veterans. Well, they count if your job's on the line, you know, they start to count if you're out just up my toe. You really, my training is really not going great, guys. They really start to count if you have something to prove. Now, I laughed the other day. I get along with Josh well, but when he said this to the New York Post, a week or so ago, it just came off comical. He said that, you know, if he didn't have any more to offer the game, you know, he would just retire. You know? It's not about finances for him anymore. He says the guy who's about to make $26 million this year. Please, like you just had a kid. Like you're not going to not give up. You're not going to give up $26 million. You're doing this for the money a little bit. So whether he actually believes he can bounce back from last year, who knows whether the Yankees actually believe it, who knows they have to keep saying that they think he can bounce back, but I mean, the lack of general interest in him on the trade front this season. Sorry, this off season combined with just how things never really got better for him. Last year, it's hard to think that he's going to really bounce back.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"All right it is time to talk about the New York Yankees and we are joined by Brendan Cudi who covers the Yankees for the athletic rented welcome to the show. Guys, thank you so much for having me. Really looking forward to this. Happy to have you. And I think before we preview this Yankee season, we almost have to review the last Yankee season, which was quite confounding. It was a tale of two seasons. I think the first half or so of the season was they're keeping pace with the 98 Yankees. The second half was can they hold on or are they going to blow this thing? Because they were basically a 500 team. So some of the underlying numbers were better than that. But how do you make sense of what the Yankees were last season? Because it is largely the same roster, we will talk about some of the additions, but they brought back a whole lot of the 2022 teams. So you always have to figure out what that team was before you can understand what the 2023 team is. Right, so last season's team, it felt like in a lot of ways, operated at best case scenario levels. No one was hurt until like may, really. Everyone performed at such high level in the first half, you had all star Jose trevino looking amazing behind the plate, but putting together his best career offensive season. DJ le mayhew was the machine that you expect him to be until he fell off in the second half due to injury, Aaron judge has an historic season, Anthony Rizzo looks really good. They're able to skate by with poor performances from Josh Donaldson and Aaron hicks, but just really all in all, and the first half, it couldn't have gone better from a performance standpoint, and in the second half, the wheels kind of came off the bus in terms of a ton of injuries hitting them at once, John Carlos Stanton goes down, nest or Cortez, talked about DJ le mayhew, Anthony Rizzo's back, started being a B word. A whole bunch of things started going poorly in the second half and it kind of leaves you going into the season saying, um, this roster looks so much like last year's roster, what team is this? And I guess an unfortunate place that we could start on a continuation of that theme is with the injuries. So there were efforts made to reinforce parts of this roster and, you know, I don't think that we're looking at anything season ending when it comes to road on, but what is the latest on cargo shirt on? He was their big off season pitching edition and now he has a strained forum and is going to miss the start of the regular season. So when do they expect him back and before he got hurt, what were you seeing from him and camp? So right now he's back to throwing light stuff. The Yankees hope that he's back mid April. I think when it comes to an elbow, when it comes to a forearm situation, when it comes to your latest $167 million investment, maybe take the forecast with a grain of salt and say, if the Yankees are talking about mid April, maybe aim for late April. Before he went down, he really hadn't done a whole lot. There was just a bunch of backfields simulated games just priming himself to get onto his first spring training game mound and the grapefruit league. And then once he got there, he hurt himself. I mean, his velocity was down. He said that he felt it on one particular slider that he threw. And he got smacked around by the tigers. So we really didn't get to see a whole lot from rodon. You wonder how did this happen now, right? Because if you have a shutdown off season and you're just starting to ramp up and now the forearm pops up, wow, this is an issue that rodon dealt with last May with the Giants. Man, cardio brachialis. That's not at all what it is. It's some kind of muscle in your upper forearm that Brian cashman described as sounding like a dinosaur. So if you go look up the arms of your forearms, are the muscles of your forearm and look for the one that sounds like a dinosaur. That's the one Carlos reddam is dealing with. But you really got to be concerned, right? Because you're talking about a guy who's a previous Tommy John guy, you're talking about a guy with a long injury history and who just signed a gigantic contract. A lot of times when it's that upper forearm area, that's your body saying, stop it. What's going on here? And you got to be really concerned if you're the Yankees about Carlos rodan just because two time Tommy John guys aren't completely unheard of. Especially these days. Yeah, and it's an interesting rotation sort of top to bottom because despite the time that he is going to spend on the shelf despite the fact that the Yankees will be lucky to get really anything at all from Frankie montas, we still have them projected as the best rotation in baseball at fan grafts, but it doesn't take much for you to see how this could kind of go right for them if Nestor Cortes gets hurt again if Louis severino goes down if they get under performance from some of the other guys.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"There's a weak bullpen underbelly as well, but you do at least have Devin Williams and Ryan Presley coming in shutting the door. So that beats. But also, maybe it's in a sense for the best just from a competitive standpoint that the U.S. doesn't have a pitching staff that is the equivalent of its lineup because it's light up is so incredible. I mean, it's ridiculous that Trey Turner was batting 9th. He's now just he hits a home run, every game, or sometimes two, and he's your number 9 hitter, and that is a reflection of the quality of that lineup. If the pitching staff were just as stacked if you had all of the best American pitchers on this team too, I don't want to say the U.S. team would be unbeatable because there are other great teams too and if they had their best guys available then that would help too and also it's a format that lends itself to upsets, obviously. But maybe it's more fun to have less of a Dream Team situation where you have one team that is kind of head and shoulders above. I mean, right now, yeah, the U.S. can come back from any deficit with that lineup, but also it's not exactly a lights out staff and it does kind of make things more competitive, I think, than it would have their roster were just stuffed with all of the best available options than they would be heavier favorites than they are. And there are ways in which I think the fact that the best players are not on that roster and then also derosa has to deal with all of these restrictions that makes it feel a little less like the most legitimate tournament could be, right? All of the best players were playing and if you could kind of take the reins off a little bit, then it would feel more just no holds barred like this is the absolute best baseball talent going up against each other. And so it does detract a little bit that there are so many no shows and understandable absences, but also maybe it might be for the best in terms of actually producing a competitive tournament and keeping things close. It would be nice, I think, if there were some better options out there in the most important moments. But look, if they made it, they squeaked by Venezuela, they blew out Cuba in the semi. And now they're into the final. And just the energy in that game, whether it was Josiah on the Venezuelan side, being super pumped after big outs or Trey Turner or Mike Trout was about as excited as I think we've ever seen like trout because how often does he have reason to be super excited at angels games? The gifts and the videos and the breakdowns of Team USA celebrating Turner's Homer and all the quotes like Turner saying that it was the biggest Homer of his career. You just had a lot of hovers and played it a lot of playoff games and he said that was the biggest hit of his career. And everyone was going on and on about the environment, Turner said, I'm always excited, but I just don't necessarily show it. It's the most I've ever yelled on a field. And derosa said when trade clipped that ball, honestly, I saw about 35 guys, including the coaches kind of blackout and lose their minds for a moment. Lance Lynn said, usually during the regular season, you're not jumping onto the field and doing stuff like that when that happened, it was unbelievable Turner said it was the loudest that he is ever heard at a baseball game too and of course U.S. was almost like the visiting team in this scenario because more people in the stadium were cheering for Venezuela and then also for Cuba the next night. Derozan said being honest with you, it's one of the greatest games I've ever been a part of, the passion in this building was absolutely incredible. Turner said that Pete Alonso bat flipped Turner's Homer. So a lotto was on the on deck circle and he bat flipped just watching the Homer that was how excited he was. Adam Wainwright said I pitched for a long time and I've never had this much fun playing baseball. So these are pretty good endorsements and testimonials. Like maybe there's a little bit of evangelism going on here because it's needing to justify that this is worthwhile and also trying to persuade players who were not there, perhaps to play in the future. So maybe they're going a little harder on just how great it is just to sort of send that message. Real Muto said I can't believe anybody would rather stay in spring training than play in a game like that. So much pride on the line so much fun. It was clear to both teams how much that game meant and last quote atom out of vino said Brady singer was asking me what the playoffs are like. I was like, I don't even know if they're like this. That was the best atmosphere I've been in. It was just so fun to be a part of, even if we would have lost it. So hearing that kind of message come out of Team USA and also a lot of the other teams in the tournament. Again, like we've been boosting it a bit because they're detractors to the tournament. But it's really fun. I'm done watching spring training at this point. I'm not really tuning in to watch spring training games and probably wouldn't be even if the WBC weren't going on. I was about to say were you watching them before? Just like at the beginning just because, hey, baseball is back sort of and then even though they're the new rules and that's interesting to see how the implementation goes kind of checked out on the grapefruit and cactus leagues until opening day. But I'm totally dialed into the WBC. So again, I echo my call to play this thing more often. Why are we depriving ourselves of the entertainment at this time of year?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"nationals" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"To you by our Patreon supporters. I make really a fangraphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer Ben how are you. I'm laughing 'cause I goofed this the first time it didn't didn't though. I almost tripped at the finish line, but I feel like I got through, you know? This is how I am. USA, USA. Wow. Yeah. That's quite loud. Yeah, how you are as loud. Yeah. What a weekend at the WPC. I'm not an unpatriotic person, but I'm also not someone who expresses my patriotism through sporting events. Typically, because what does it really prove about a country? To win an a single elimination baseball game in a two week baseball tournament or any other sporting event for that matter. That said, pretty exciting baseball this weekend for all Team USA. Yeah. I mean, I think that there were some potential low lows, but then there were, then there were grand slams, so I didn't matter if those little lows didn't come back to manifest even though. It looked like they might. And I was mostly just enjoying the environment and the energy in those games. Like when Team USA went down in the quarterfinal after we arrived hit two homers in a game for the first time at least since he's been a pig leaker. I was like, all right, yeah, good job, team Venezuela. I have to hand it to you guys. So I was still sort of I wasn't really down in the dumps about the fact that TB USA was losing at that point, but then the comeback was incredible. So I mean, that was absolutely a playoff atmosphere on a Saturday in mid March, which was great. So I was editing our Patreon bonus pod, which we recorded on Saturday, and I was not making great time because I was so absorbed in that back and forth contest. I was just a great advertisement for the WBC. Yeah, it was a great amount of fun. It would be rude to pick this net. Would it be meant to pick in it? They wanted. So it's especially not rude. Look, I don't want to make any feel bad. I don't want to say that anybody is bad at managing a baseball team. I'd be bad at managing a baseball team. But here's the thing. I feel like I feel like maybe we could have a folks with more or in some cases any coaching experience in the dugout. Like we've talked in these proceedings about how one of the projects for Team USA, if they want to really continue to advance the WBC as a tournament and they're standing within it is to think about how to attract deeper starting, pitching, and we say there was no disrespect to incentive to Lance Lennon or anyone else. But our very best are not represented on that side. I know that the bullpen has taken some offense to the suggestion that the pitching is bad. So I will be specific and say that the starting pitching could probably improve. Also it would be nice to have a long man in the bullpen. But I get like it's fun to see to see some guys to remember some guys in the dugout. But why was Daniel Bard in that game for so long? You know, like, he was in there, Ben. He was in there for so long. And that was bad for him, it was bad for Jose Altuve, who we should note is going to be out for 8 ten weeks with a broken thumb. And I hated being forced to feel the way I did that. Because there was simultaneously filled with great concern for the Venezuelan hitters because Daniel Barr clearly had no idea where the ball was going. And also, I worry and this was not a thought you need to be like, are we watching him re develop the gifts? Like, are we? Seeing that and so why are you putting my drawers away putting him in that spot? Like, don't do that. Also,
AP News Radio
Biden to award first batch of arts and humanities medals
"President Joe Biden will be presenting arts and humanities medals on Tuesday. I Norman hall. Bruce Springsteen will be honored at The White House when president Joe Biden presents him with the 2021 national medal of arts. It's the nation's highest award for advancing the arts in America. The Rock music icon is among a dozen individuals and groups Biden has chosen to honor during a White House ceremony, the medals are Biden's first batch of awards for the arts and humanities and were delayed by the pandemic. Other 2021 arts on a race include authors Amy ten and Colson Whitehead. Humanity's honorees include anthropologist johnetta Cole and advocate for the poor Brian Stevenson. Norman hall,
AP News Radio
Safety board: Alabama derailed train lacked needed couplers
"Federal safety regulators have determined why a Norfolk Southern train derailed an Alabama earlier this month. I Norman hall. The national transportation safety board says the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Alabama lacked required alignment control couplers for two of its locomotives and federal investigators say a company inspection did not identify the absence of the devices. The notation comes in one of three preliminary reports issued by NTSB about Norfolk Southern train accidents, the safety board was already investigating the fiery February derailment and toxic chemical burn in east Palestine, Ohio, the safety board says future investigation will focus on Norfolk Southern communication, maintenance, and inspection practices, as well as locomotive and railcar positioning and train handling. I Norman hall
Mark Levin
Joe Biden Issues First Veto, Rejecting Attempt to Block ESG Effort
"So this is from the associated depress president Joe Biden issued the first veto of his presidency today In an early sign of shifting White House relations with the new Congress since Republicans took control of the House in January a move that serves as a prelude to bigger battles with GOP lawmakers when government spending in the nation's debt limit These run on sentences are unbelievable But yes Biden sought to kill a Republican authored measure that would ban the government from considering environmental impacts or potential lawsuits when making investment decisions for people's retirement plans Excuse me Environmental impacts of potential lawsuits that goes well beyond that And so here's the associated depress who wrote this damn thing Zeke Miller and Kim Two propagandists for the left In a video released by The White House Biden said he vetoed the measure because it put at risk the retirement savings of individuals across the country Let me tell you something about the use of language here The use or should I say the abuse of language is something that has been perfected by totalitarian regimes Whether national socialists straight up fascists marxists any combination thereof So the plane understanding of words is changed In addition new words are created New words are created And the whole goal here is to promote propaganda and ideology and to brainwash you So the language is dumbed down The language is changed Words lose their meaning where it's changed their meaning
Mark Levin
Commerce Is International, But National Security Is Crucial
"So commerce is international If it wasn't we'd be a very poor country However National security is crucial So there are certain things you simply can not sell to the enemy or an adversary Unless you want to commit suicide As a nation and there are certain industries that must be homegrown Unless you want to commit suicide as a nation Now one of those nations communist China Another one is the Islamic regime in Iran And the inbred regime in North Korea And now the fascistic regime in Russia That keeps threatening us You don't sell cutting edge technologies to these countries You don't sell I think it was khrushchev said it I think it was Lenin actually The rope with which we won't hang ourselves So you got to make you know you have to have discernment About some of these activities So you don't have free trade with nations that are going to cut your throat
AP News Radio
Biden signs bill on COVID origins declassification
"President Biden has signed a bill concerning the origins of COVID. I'm Lisa dwyer. President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill into law that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19. The legislation passed both the House and Senate without dissent. It directs the office of the director of national intelligence to declassify intelligence related to a lab in Wuhan, China, the law also allows for redactions to protect sensitive sources and methods. U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals was likely source experts say the true origin may not be known for many years if ever. I'm Lisa dwyer
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Grading the U.S. Rule of Law With Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing
"Talk to me about if you had to, if you arrive from another planet? And you were an expert in the law. How would you grade the rule of law in America to David Victoria? Where do we stand? No, it's an F and because not only just the things that are done, but people are watching this and now no longer have trust in the judicial system. With violent crime in New York on a rampage and then this and the Bragg, this is the priority for Alvin Bragg. We've had bad cases in our career of U.S. attorneys being corrupt. And we had one case where U.S. attorney took a misdemeanor local election law and tried to make it be a RICO. But you know what happened? We got a good federal judge who said, this is not, this is not a RICO. This is a misdemeanor and let our client plead to a misdemeanor. Where are those judges now? That's what bothering me. Do they got frightened by January 6th? Especially the judges, the federal judges in the District of Columbia. They got frightened by January 6th, and they don't want to be blamed for being too soft on anybody involved in January 6th. Whether they did harm or not. And as a result of that, they have advocated their responsibility to be fair and impartial to the people appearing before him. The fact in front of the fact that there are defendants who are still incarcerated two years after this. Before trial. Before trial are still in court is an absolute national disgrace and
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why the Potential Trump Charges Are Pure Fiction
"Is that Donald Trump and his own private life paid stormy Daniels is a hush money payment as a way to try and influence the 2016 presidential campaign. This is such this is beyond an abuse of the criminal justice system. Even if you hate Donald Trump, even if you are the most anti Trump person, you can not possibly justify. That this is what the criminal justice system is for. This is not even a novel legal theory. This is a fiction of the legal code. Signs indicate that Bragg's plan is to claim that Trump's payments to stormy Daniels were improperly classified as a legal expense. Now, even that would just be a misdemeanor of true, so to make it a felony like Bragg has been saying that it's a crime was committed to cover up another crime and the theory goes that it goes a bigger crime making this any illegal campaign contribution. This is such an abuse. That basically says any spending in your personal life is actually for a political campaign. And then it just begs the question, was Donald Trump selling our country out to the Chinese Communist Party, so his cocaine addicted son could make money in our national security could be compromised. Did Donald Trump smash a bunch of devices even though they were under subpoena? And they just disappeared. Did Donald Trump engage in a summer of love of looting and fire and arson, of course not. A city that is more dangerous than ever and the local DA is going straight after the 45th president of the United States. Why is this happening?
AP News Radio
Macron's leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan
"President Emmanuel Macron's leadership is at risk of intentions over the controversial pension plan. A parody photo shows president Emmanuel Macron, sitting on piles of garbage, is both a reference to the trash going uncollected with Paris sanitation workers on strike and to what many French people think about their leader McConnell had hoped his push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 would cement his legacy instead he finds his leadership contested both in parliament and on the streets of major cities the president's political opponents in the National Assembly have filed two no confidence motions. Government officials are hoping to survive a vote on them because the opposition is divided with many Republicans expected not to support it. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
China's Xi meeting Putin in boost for isolated Russia leader
"Chinese leader Xi Jinping is meeting today with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Today's meeting in Moscow between the Chinese and Russian leaders is a political boost for an isolated Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes and Ukraine, on Fox News Sunday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. will be monitoring for news about what the two leaders say about Ukraine. China has not condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They are still buying Russian oil and energy resources. And they have at least given tacit approval because they've taken the Russian claim that this is somehow an existential threat against Russia that the war is the west's fault. Beijing called for a ceasefire last month, but Washington said that would ratify the prevalence battlefield gains, dot org Washington
AP News Radio
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Chinese leader Xi Jinping for high-stakes meeting at the Kremlin
"In the coming hours, the president of China's expected to arrive in Russia for a meeting with president Vladimir Putin and U.S. officials are waiting for an update. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is expected to dominate the meeting between visiting Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, and Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow. U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says there are concerns China may agree to help Putin in the war effort. China has not condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They are still buying Russian oil and energy resources. He tells Fox News Sunday experts
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
John Solomon: Bureaucracies Only Think of Their Own Existence
"Everything that you found, John, the obvious question is, why the hell? Now some have said that this was a way for U.S. government bureaucrats to do an end run around restrictions on research here in America, and they were just playing fast and loose by doing an end run. Do you have any theory or any evidence of why would they be doing this for years, John? Chad wolf, who I talked to yesterday former Homeland Security secretary. I think I had a very astute analysis, which is what happens is bureaucracy start to only think about their existence. Their success, their growth of their budget, the growth of their fame, and they don't think about national security anymore. And so NIH in its effort to claim glory on whatever projects they were working on, were willing to trade national security to advance the interests of their bureaucracy. That's why accountability to the political leadership and government is so important why our founding fathers wanted a smaller bureaucracy. Bureaucrats run wild as the explanation I've heard from a lot of people once I remember people doing their own things not considering the big picture of our own future security.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
John Solomon Discusses China's Treaty Violations and the Wuhan Lab
"Is COVID origin secrets near the classification that in itself is exciting. Wuhan a lab's ties to China military burst into focus, talk to us about the latest things we need to know about our country, our government and the military biodefense lab in communist China, John. It's extraordinary. So no matter where we end up on whether the COVID-19 virus leaked from the lab or not, obviously the FBI energy department House intelligence committee Senate health committee all believe it did and growing other number of intelligence committees believe that. But here's the bigger question. No matter what happened with COVID-19, there is now irrefutable proof that the United States government has known since 2005 that China was violating its own treaties to not do offensive biological weapons they had an offensive biological weapons program. It was based in the Chinese People's Liberation Army at an entity called the academy of military medical sciences specifically the 5th institute. The State Department declared that in a document in 2005. Over the decade after they made that declaration, wide open evidence that the MMS that academy we just talked about was working with the Wuhan institute of virology, the place where we think the COVID-19 virus worked on. What were they working on? On Anthony Fauci's own site. On the NIH, you can find this. There was a study on anthrax. There was a study, a book, a book that said, coronaviruses as a class are going to be the leading edge of a new era of genetic warfare. That's the Chinese words, not mine. Those are the sort of things that were going on between scientists at the Wuhan institute of virology. And the academy of military medical sciences in China, the place that we said was the epicenter of an illicit bioweapons program, despite all that knowledge, despite all that evidence, no one in the intelligence committee, no one in the national Institutes of health. No one in the State Department stopped it. Millions of dollars flowed from U.S. agencies to the Wuhan institute of virology. And now we're hearing maybe also directly to the academy, the
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
The Globalists vs. America
"These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood, and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas while keeping us distracted from the havoc, they're creating right here at home. These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed evicting the sick and corrupt establishment is the monumental task for the next president, and I am the only one who can do it. I'm the only one that can get the job done. I know exactly what has to be done. To imagine a more succinct precise of the challenge we face. But I would add one additional detail. Yes, it is the globalists that do not believe in the nation state, the westphalian order in national sovereignty. They believe in some one world conglomeration where they get to define the values that you are allowed to expose, but beyond that, there's additional wrinkle. It's not just that nation states are bad, that sovereignty is bad. There is one nation above all else that must be targeted for dismantling. And it's ours. It's not just the globalists, vice the nation states. That's just a part of the story. It's the globalists against America.
WTOP
"nationals" Discussed on WTOP
"Night for the nationals but another May Day a distress signal The nationals commit two throwing errors on the same play and a pick off toss Results in two runs on the board for the Marlins Yeah Dave jackley called nationals three hours on the night of 5 one lost the Marlins nationals lead the majors in errors Johanna don't only allowed one run in four and two thirds Aaron judge Homer's twice helped the Yankees top the Orioles 5 to four NBA playoffs heat outscored the Celtics in the third quarter went on to a one 18 one O 7 win Traffic.
WTOP
"nationals" Discussed on WTOP
"White Think red we've got Ben raby Hey Ben Hey Shana call it reunion weekend at nationals park the Nats taking on the Houston Astros and this not only their first meeting since the 2019 World Series but this weekend also the first time back at national spark for former Nance manager dusty baker baker's successor here in D.C. nap skipper Davey Martinez with all kinds of respect for one of his longtime mentors It's actually a big deal for me too I played for him I've known him for a very long time I truly learned a lot from him He's always kept the contact He'll text me I text him but he's really an unbelievable person And the record for manager speaks for herself Nice pre game ceremony ahead of the series open or celebrating dusty baker 2009 career wins for baker tenth most in big league history and his latest triumph coming last night against the nationals Astros taking the series opener 6 one Houston has now won 11 straight nationals meanwhile have lost 7 of 9 NHL it's the morning after for the capitals They were eliminated from the postseason with a fourth straight first round exit Florida Panthers taking game 6 over the caps four three in overtime Panthers win the series four games to two Florida onto the second round for the first time in 26 years Then raby WTO sports The top stories we're following for you on WTO P crowds are gathering in downtown D.C. this afternoon for an abortion rights rally It comes weeks after a leaf draft show the Supreme.
WTOP
"nationals" Discussed on WTOP
"All the demonstrators at this point off the roadway to the right side left side of the roadway once again getting by Jack Taylor WTO P traffic 9 O three here in its Friday April 8th 2022 love that sunshine now but it's cloudy for us later and our high going to 65 Good morning I'm Joan Jones And I'm Bruce Allen and here are the top local stories we're following for you this hour Two people are in critical condition this morning after a police involved shooting at a green line metro station last night A metro transit police officer shot a man at the anacostia metro station in southeast Police say the man had a knife and it just stabbed someone during a fight and then lunged at the officer when they responded Both the suspect and the stabbing victim were taken away with critical injuries The station is just one stop south from nationals park and the shooting happened during the team's opening day game but metro says it didn't have a major impact because most metro riders who left the ballpark went north Nick I Nelly doubled TOP news Well Nats fans toughed out a rain delay It was also pretty chilly last night and they only ended up watching the Nats lose 5 to one to the mets last night Well despite that loss there were a lot of happy people at the ballpark for opening night It was a familiar point of pride for a lot of the Nats fans I spoke with like ash We've been to every opening day at nationals park since 2005 since the nationals came back to Washington at RFK Doug calls opening.
On The Table Gaming
"nationals" Discussed on On The Table Gaming
"I have some jokes. That people i sat down next to craig when we were filling out our list to turn into robert like our official lists and i sat down next to craig and put my arm around him and i was like hey. I'm filling out this list. But i don't wanna fail this task and i copy off of yours. There was a little bit of humor. Going on into robert adam were like super fun and super upbeat the whole day. And that's robert focus in the head of the song of ice and fire organized play team. And then adam level who i think. Now is the vice president of sales. I think it seem on. He's been leading up. No one the game. I came out. I think he was in a different position. He's he's climbed as we have the ladder. Yes absolutely and it was really really cool for him to make the trip on to come to india. I know that he's got a personal relationship with shane. So that was really cool that he made the trip not just for the us nationals. But after the event you know he in shade and robert were having dinner in the back of the store so just really cool to see that kind of interaction with a local store owner and some of the semen brass some of the higher ups in the company but they seemed incredibly excited for the event. They were excited to see the models for their game on the table. They were walking around the tables kind of make jokes that people taking jabs at people here and seeing what was going on in the game. I'm robert walked over. When i did an orbital strike with off linzie you on dakota's poor red cloaks and robert walks over and he sees me you know claim the the wealth zone and then six models are removed. And he's label. What just happened. He's looking at the board. He sees the free attack is open. And i was like i shot him. He's like you don't even have archers. Shot him with awful. Like oh my god. Where did that come from apple. Shot him from the wall man over located on the wall listed. You run for for nationals. Then what were you rolling out with. i ran a nightwatch pairing and interestingly enough similar to craig. Text for nightwatch craig. I talked a lot going into this event. And i was. I had been running double crossbows iran it to that Northern realms gaming number two energy event and it did pretty well but in you know. I was talking to craig about. This list is really tough to play. You know bob. And i have kind of played it a whole bunch of times and we think there's very few things that can beat it and craig was like i beat it all the time. Wait a minute now. And then he gets to tell on me and and he kind of put the fear of god in me. I was like you know what like you. Put the hurrah cars behind. The first instinct is to activate a unit of crossbows or spin the relentless order because the maneuver zones been taken while. Just turn around and shoot you and then no not. If i put garrison sell me on them you spend your order. And then well i guess you could spend the order and then activate but if he put me down the horse and you try to spend your order to turn around than some would block it and then you have spend your activation to turn around and spend your activation to turnaround. Then you don't have any way to shoot them so there's definitely some counterplay with dropping harare's behind that list but the thing about that is that list entirely hinges on the conscript staying alive the he'll your elite units because you're running paper thin crossbows right..
On The Table Gaming
"nationals" Discussed on On The Table Gaming
"About board games card games and tabletop. Wargames hates chase from on the table gaming and welcome back to episode one hundred twelve of the on the table giving podcast and thanks so much to our patriots support for helping keep this podcast ad free so today. I'm excited to be joined by craig. Grew in hagen winner of the take the black day. One event at simmons organized. Us nationals event as well as lampher winner of the second day the us national championship tournament. So i don craig thanks for. You're coming on the show. Thanks for having me and brett. Welcome back always good to be here so you guys both be pretty feeling pretty good about things. Have you guys caught up on your sleep. No not at all ended up getting back into town at five. Am i called into work. Seven oh my god all right so you travel a bit of ways to get there a little bit. Yeah know. I was watching a thing about competitive chess players. And it was like grandmaster in a tournament will burn like six thousand calories so that's the amount of mental exhaustion after that second day tournament. Yeah i definitely slept in. i went home. You know just spent a little bit of time with The wife and the baby and we. We stayed up a little bit late. But i slept in until like eleven today so i got. I got caught up on sleep. I don't have it as bad as craig. But i'm definitely feeling still some of that mental fatigue like i haven't even thought about picking up dice or look looking into any list building or anything like that. I've had to give myself a break from it. That typically take about a week off. Yeah that sounds about right. He did this put in like a vast amount of our so. I think that's fair to say you know so. It's been a while since we've actually talked about you know the results of a us national championship. Event I think the last one was in twenty. Nineteen at pacts unplug Obviously that was a great one. That was a blast and it was a great environment. It's kind of a convention setting those people coming over in like off. Can you and asking questions during your game about like. What does this game and like trying to touch your dyson stuff. So this year people obviously a little bit more hesitant about convention settings so worked out pretty well that this was at family. Time games that they're able to host event craig. Had you been to family time game before. I went there last year when they did the gen con. Replacement tournament This spring when they did the adept counter replacement tournament. And i believe two other tournaments as well. So you're you're somewhat familiar with that that landscape and so was the atmosphere like at this day. One take the black event that you had success at. It was actually a really friendly. A lot of fun fun people to talk to it was laid back in some ways in that everyone was polite laughing having fun but it was also intense because no one wanted to lose..
WTOP
"nationals" Discussed on WTOP
"Christiane. The Nationals and Giants get underway in San Francisco at 405, then at starter today is Jon Lester and for the Giants. Anthony DeSclafani. This afternoon, it was announced that Max Scherzer has been named an All Star replacement. It's the eighth time in his career that shares ER has been named an All Star Today. He was asked about traveling to the game with his wife, Erica, who's from Colorado. For her, You know, it's a little, especially in that way. Uh, you know that we have family there. So that helps out with the kids because you know, all Star games are nuts. I mean, it's 48 hours of this chaos. Um it's a party and I love parties. First pitch between the Orioles and White Sox at Camden Yards. Also at 405 Tom Eshelman gets the start today for Baltimore. Chicago, Countering with former national Lucas Giolito Ashleigh Barty won the women's title at Wimbledon. The Australian defeating Karolina Push Cova Whos from the Czech Republic two sets to one and then tonight Connor McGregor is a plus. 1 10 underdog against Dustin Poor easier in the main event of UFC 2 64 I'm Christiane. W T o P Sports rest of the weekend forecast on the way at 3 47. Your favorite things feel made for you. Your education should too. University of Maryland Global Campus, formerly University of Maryland University College was made to serve the military and working adults like you Today we continue that tradition..
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"nationals" Discussed on WTOP
"Ray B Alright Kyle Nationals and Dodgers continuing their weekend series tonight at 7 15. Nance looking to snap a two game losing streak, and they will be missing several key colleagues tonight, most notably Their leadoff man and the National League Player of the Month for June. Kyle Schwarber out indefinitely for manager Davey Martinez. He's got a significant strain in this hamstring, so Is that is that, uh, miss some time? You know, it's unfortunate, you know, as hard as he was and how much he helped us when, over the last month. We got to do without him for a while. So other guys definitely have to step up and significant blow for the Nationals Trade. Turner, meanwhile, missing a third straight game tonight with a finger injury. Backup catcher Alex A village is placed on the 10 Day injured list this afternoon. It's the injury by keeping the Nats in a big way, and as a result, a bit of a makeshift lineup tonight. Shortstop Alcides Escobar just acquired from the Royals last night. He will make his naps debut this evening. Meanwhile, the nationals entering play three games behind the Mets in the National League East Mets were winners this afternoon 83 over the Yankees. Major League Soccer just underway at Audi field in an early one Nothing lead for D C United DC you taking on Toronto FC Euro 2020. The semifinals are now set. Italy will face Spain on Tuesday. Denmark will meet England on Wednesday. W NBA mystics have lost four in a row. And today on the road mystics blew a 20 point lead. They fell to the New York Liberty 82 to 79 Ben Ray b w T o P Sports. All right, Ben. Thanks 5 47, now in Washington. Your favorite.
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"nationals" Discussed on WTOP
"For the Nationals is taking three or four from the meds, huh? With a big crowd on hand as well. Hey, listen, there is no crying in baseball unless there are baby shark. Tears of joy be honest. Almost cry. I almost cried, Um and hoppy I'll be this year or define stand on and play. Those are baby Charlie have cerrado borrow back with the nationals that after his baby shark walk up song in the cell of Para delivered a pinch double Kylo Swarmer follow with his third homer of the game. Nationals five to win over the match. Sure, tied the major league record with five homers in two games. Patrick Corbin six innings for the way and wrap it up the nationals after the weekend, five games out of first place behind the Mets. The Orioles lose the Blue Jays s a 74 How The Yankees. They finished the game with a triple play to beat the A's just a couple of months removed from the birth of his first child, Jon Rahm, celebrated Father's Day by winning his first major the U. S Open golf Today. Senior editor Matt Ward was at Torrey Pines. There wasn't really any real comments from the players. At the golf course was, you know, in any way tripped up or unfair. You just had the place solid golf and eventually the man who did, you know, work home with the trophy and the championship. He was the one that outplayed everybody else. That would be John Ron. NBA playoffs Hawks into the Eastern Conference finals after the wood over the Sixers sons over the Western Conference finals. Meeting the Clippers on the ICE, Vegas top Montreal in overtime and Virginia Wednesday. College World Series against Tennessee their first game, Dave Johnson, Every utility sports. Thank you, Dave. Up ahead on w T O P, a well known local recording studio will soon close O'Neill. I can stay. It's 6 47. Enjoy. Thanks..
The Steve Warne Project - Sports
"nationals" Discussed on The Steve Warne Project - Sports
"James the name amy bacher stats might vaguely call up some glimmer of memory. Actually if you're a pga fan. I know you know because you've talked about a number of occasions and this was the young woman twenty. Two years of age became an internet sensation when she paired with gary woodland on the sixteenth. Toll of the t. p. scottsdale read ahead of the phoenix. Hope open and bhakkar stat. Impressed everybody on a par three at a shot into the sand off. T nice chip eight foot. Putt for par. And everybody's pretty impressed by that and And by the way. Amy has down syndrome and out. How special story was that. That was one of the feel good stories of that year. Oh god wept like a child. Took me to what the fourth time where i finally stopped. It was just because gary woodland you can hear them just at storybook stuff right storybook stuff. It was unreal and she made a par mate three and i like most maybe looked at a go. Oh my god this can go so bad here. What are you gonna do you know. What's the plan here. If with sir takes can't get out of the bunker whatever right is no no got up and down. The trap made the guy footer for three It was just storybook absolute storybook right and he was choked up. And yeah i was just the best thing we'd seen in a long time. You know that that. I had or one art one of my favorite things about sports right it was. It was really nice story to watch for sure to see kind of this dream of a lifetime thing. Anyway the dream continues for amy bacher stat because she will become. I guess Let the next week. Next week she'll become the first collegiate athlete with down syndrome to compete for a national title as she participates in the n. j. c. aa national championships in florida and that stands for the the jc in there s for junior college and Yeah i mean. I don't know how big a contender she's going to be. I don't know much about her game but that is pretty exciting that she even gets an opportunity to compete there and good for her. that's fantastic. Yeah it's it. It's on when i read that. I'm like holy men of i don't know how good she is steve. Like i haven't as you play tournaments. I don't know. I don't know what i saw with gary woodland. Though was you know she can play play i i. I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means junior college singer. I don't know her. i don't know if scores. I haven't seen her play eighteen holes or anything. So i don't know but so i don't know if this is an inclusive deal stevie if it's a program that inclusivity Or not or is it the real deal you know. I don't know yeah. Another neat thing to the whole angle to it. If you'll recall one of the things that i think it was before her pot when she was with gary woodland that day i think she said something along the lines of i got this right right right and from there. Her family created the. I got this foundation a year later and it provides golf instruction and playing opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and Speaking on behalf of someone who has a son with autism. I think to myself how special that is because You know that's always something. I think about you know when my daughter was playing hockey throughout the years. My son was always at the game. And you can't really articulate..