The last two games have been a roller coaster all because of one guy... Jurickson Profar. Jurickson Profar crossed a line by celebrating towards the Nats dugout, and Keibrt Ruiz showed him up last night. Ryan gets into why the Padres & the Nats are now rivals. We then look at baseball cause this is a baseball show, what will happen to the starting rotation whenJosiah Gray comes back healthy and with Patrick Corbin pitching well recently? Lastly, we preview today's game with the Nats and Padres as the Padres have never won a World Series.
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It's the lockdown podcast network, your team every day. You saw last night's game, and this has now been transpiring over the last two games. I can tell you this now. Last night, a rivalry was born. And thank you all for making lockdown nationals your first list in every single day as we are free and available. However, you get your podcast, and of course you can check us out over on Twitter @RineClaire11 and as well as our show page @ellow_national. For our latest national news notes, make sure to check us out over on Twitter there. And of course, while you're at it, make sure to search up lockdown nationals wherever you get your podcast, including over on YouTube. Hit that subscribe button, drop a comment, drop a thumbs up or even a thumbs down, whatever makes you happy will make me happy. Later on in today's show, the nationals, they've dropped the first two games. Against the Padres, we've got the Game 3 preview today with DJ hers on the bump going up against Dylan Sees, who by the way, he stinks this year in 2024. We'll have that preview for you a little bit later on in today's show. Patrick Corbin has been pitching pretty damn well recently. What are the nationals going to do with the starting rotation? I've got a few ideas for you. And again, this is going to be a big hot topic as Josiah Gray continues to work back from his rehab assignments down in AAA. We've got an update on that, by the way, and that'll be in the second segment of today's show. But we start right here. Last night, a rivalry was born between the nationals and the Padres. Today's episode is brought to you by Tax Network USA. And of course, did you know that it's never too late to resolve your tax issues with the IRS? Don't wait, reduce your tax debt and help get a team of the licensed tax professionals called 1-800-549-1000 visit tnusa.gov/lockdog. So last night, as we were saying, there was a rivalry born. Yes, there was. Over the last two games, I've never seen a team kind of act the way that they have over these last two games under Davey Martinez. Not once in my life, not once in your life, either. The nationals have always kind of laid low under the radar. You don't really see them having crazy brawls. You think back to the Hunter Strickland Bryce Harper days, those were some different days. That was when the nationals kind of had that sexiness to them. Right now they don't really have that sexy vibe. Well, if you were to consider all things here with the nationals and with the Padres, this rivalry has kind of come out of nowhere. And yeah, this is a rivalry at this point. Let's talk about this because I'm not going to lie, I hate the Padres. I didn't hate them before this, but I hate them now. They stink. I think they suck. The organization, AJ Preller, let's start off. Let's kind of go back in the history of the Padres way back in the mid 2010s, early 2010s, when the nationals and Mike Rizzo, who's still here, by the way, robbed AJ Preller. They sent Steven Sousa Jr. in that whole trade package in the nationals. You get back Trey Turner, the future star shortstop, who is now at Philadelphia Philly, who won a world series with the Washington Nationals. You also got Joe Ross, who is a good, meaningful part of this rotation back in the mid to late 2010s for the organization. The nationals won that deal, one of the craziest deals over the last decade. You won that deal. Now let's go back just two years ago, the San Diego Padres, they trade for Juan Soto. They give up the biggest package, not only in major league history, but probably professional sports history. You get James Wood. You get Mackenzie Gore, who went in last night's game, who didn't have his best start. Doesn't matter today. Does not matter. You get your star shortstop with C.J. Abrams. You get a lottery ticket with the Robert Hassel III, who, by the way, is starting to turn things around here. You get a Yarlene Susanna type, who, also, by the way, throws 102 miles per hour, still in Loeh, Fredericksburg, and was also turned things around. That's kind of where it starts here. Well, not a real rivalry, you could say. Well, Jerks and Profar, you're up. Two days ago, the nationals completely blew apart in the 10th inning. Jerks and Profar, Hunter Harvey kind of threw a fastball way up and in on what Profar thought was way up and in the haunt on him. Some people were kind of thinking that he was upset about that. But then in his post game interview, Jerks and Profar went in and was like, they disrespected me. Well, let's think about this for a second. Louisa Reyes, probably one of them, actually, no, the best contact hitter in all of baseball with ducks on the pond in a tie game. Well, would you not walk him in that situation of where the nationals stood at that moment in time? What are you talking about? He was felt disrespected. And so, of course, he went on, hit that walk off ground, roll double, whatever, then he makes his way towards the nationals dugout, starts celebrating in their face, yelling at them, doing all the different things that crosses a line in Major League Baseball. The game is fun. You have 162 games. You should have fun. It's fine. You should have fun. But there is a line that you have crossed. And the nationals, they were not happy with it as they should have happened. He crossed that line. And again, some people may say, let the guy have fun. You disrespected him, quote, unquote, whatever. That's stupid, so stupid. Yesterday's game happens. We all kind of expected to have some fireworks in the game. And there was. So first inning, the nationals come up, don't do too hot in the first three batters, whatever. My eyes were set on Mackenzie Gore and what was going to happen there. So keep out our wheez as jerks and pro far steps up to the plate, Mackenzie Gore is five pitches into his game. Before he even gets to the batter's box, keep our wheez makes a split second decision to get in his face and kind of say, hey, you need to show us respect because what you did last night. And again, this is all verbatim. I don't really know exactly what was said. We don't know exactly what was said, but he got in his face and let them know that they felt disrespected as they should have, by the way. And let's just put this right here right now. Key bar. A wheez way to go stud leader. You have had a very poor season up to this day. Very poor. A disappointing year that showed a lot to me. Number one, a leader in the clubhouse. Number two, stick up for your guys, Hunter Harvey. I'm sure he probably felt some sort of way after yesterday or after two nights ago in that game. I'm sure he had to. You stepped up for him and you showed that you've got leadership. Great. Good thing. Team Machado gets in the way who has been in a million different fights in his life up in Major League Baseball. He gets in the way. Bench is clear. All this is just a, you know what show at this point in time. That's when we all knew we're like late night nats is going to be a fun one. Very first pitch by Mackenzie Gore to jerks and pro far, he throws a slider and it hits him in the back of the foot and all of a sudden Mike shilt goes, you know what? He lose it goes ballistic says, how is this not obvious? How is he not going to get thrown out of the game? He gets thrown out Mike shilt and let's just say this, Mackenzie Gore did not purposely hit pro far. You are not throwing a slider to hit somebody. It was just a ball that he lost control of, which is the funniest part about this in my opinion. Again, with this, Mackenzie Gore played on the Padres. He's got friends on that team, I'm sure. He's not going to be the one to plunk you. And again, with under Davey Martinez, that's not really the way that they roll. This isn't David Bell with the Cincinnati Reds back in the day where they just seem to plunk everybody every single night. This isn't really that team. The nationals don't do this. It's not their character. And again, with all the relationships at play here with Mackenzie Gore, CJ Abrams being former Padres, it doesn't really make sense. But that is when a rivalry was born. Mackenzie Gore hits pro far accidentally. Obviously, tempers start to flare. And then of course, Manny Machado hits a two-run home run, the very next pitch. And it's just like whatever. You got us. You're up to nothing. Pro far. These wipe his shoulders up, whatever. Here's my thing with this. Here's where I stand San Diego. What does that say right there? If you're watching over on YouTube, you'll probably see what I'm pointing at. That says World Series right there. It's World Series. We've got championships here in DC. You don't. You don't know what it's like to win a championship. You don't know what it's like to sit in a parade and watch your team go around with a World Series trophy, you don't know what it's like to have your right ring finger filled with a ring. You guys are perennial losers. AJ Preller, joke of a GM. Jerks and pro far, former top prospect. You finally, finally, finally, have a good season. Good for you. Here's my thing about it. This team, one of the highest payrolls in all of baseball, a very loaded farm system, a solid GM even that people talk about and rave about AJ Preller, this AJ Preller that. You gave away your future for Juan Soto and you just blew it. We won with him. You traded him away. You got nothing. And again, this year, you are fighting against the Nationals for a postseason spot. If the Nationals won last night's game and let's say they won today's game, the Nationals would have jumped them in the wild card race. You are a joke of an organization, the Padres, joke, jerks and pro far, joke, all everything San Diego, joke, Peko Park, very nice, joke, all of it. Not a Padres fan. I used to actually like the Padres. Thank you, AJ Preller. And again, if AJ Preller calls again and try to make a trade, Mike Rizzo answer it. And let's do a damn trade. I mean, simple as that. My whole thing about this is that baseball is a fun game, number one. You crossed the line though. The Padres started this jerks and pro far again. Well, what a joke, a joke. I cannot say this enough. I can just tell you this San Diego Padres Ron Burgundy style. I'm not going to say it. But if you know, you know the quote, you know it. I'm tired of it San Diego, the Padres don't like you anymore. You should not like San Diego just because you have a beach, just because you have palm trees. I can tell you one thing that Washington has that you don't have that is a world series ring. Sorry. We have that, Manny Machado doesn't, Fernando Tatiz doesn't, especially jerks and pro far, he definitely does not have a world series ring. Dylan Cease, none of them, they don't have one. Sorry. That's what you play the game for. And now after you make all of these trades, you trade for Luis Arias, who by the way, he is slumping all of a sudden, Dylan Cease, he's got a mid four ERA at this point in the season. You know, who else has a lower ERA than a Mitchell Parker was a fifth round pick back in 2020 for the Nationals. Sorry about it. This national's rotation has been better than the Padres so far in 2024. Sorry. The offense? Yeah. Maybe you have a better offense, but guess what? We're only what a game and half back from you at this point. Listen, San Diego, I'm sorry, the fans, you deserve better. What a joke the Padres are, simple as that. And that is why a rivalry was born San Diego, you stink. Thank you all for making locked on nationals, your first list and every single day as we are free and available wherever you get your podcast. It's one or two long there, but I like San Diego. That's why I did that, obviously, obviously, that is why I did that because I love San Diego and of course, I love AJ Preller. Please call Mike Rizzo. Please make a trade with us yet again, I would love to do business with you. Mike Rizzo would love to do business with you and nationals fans. We love to do business with you as well, but we got business to do here. I'm locked on nationals. 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Let LinkedIn sales navigator help you sell it, get superstar today just go to LinkedIn.com/lockedon to get started. Now we get into it with the Nationals, you've got a very good problem to have, well actually let me kind of take that back, you don't really have a very good problem here, you don't. Patrick Corbin has kind of turned his season around here. Now again, let's kind of not read too deep into this, you know what to expect but over his last three starts, listen, 17 and a third innings pitch, only 12 hits, 500 run 16 strikeouts, 5 walks, he's got a 2-6 ERA, a 2-5-2 feeling independent pitching, 197 batting average against and a 2-13 slug. At this point in time, the Nationals, they have this weird kind of situation going. You've got multiple guys coming back from injury who, by the way, should be up here relatively soon, including with the forefront of that being Josiah Gray. Josiah Gray pitched in a rehab start last night in AAA Rochester where he went 73 pitches, looked really good but here's the news on him, Josiah Gray is expected to pitch again this Sunday unless the Nationals changed their mind. So let's say in this scenario that the Nets and Navy Martinez do decide to change their mind, who gets replaced? Is it Patrick Horbin at this point in time? The reason I've never really believed that it's going to be Patrick Horbin is because of what the Nationals have done the last few years. People talk about, "Well, you don't really have anywhere else to go. You have Jackson Rutledge in years pass. You have Yolana Dome." Now people might look at that and scoff and be like, "Yolana Dome, Jackson Rutledge, the two guys who haven't been good in the minors, yeah. They're better than Patrick Horbin at this point. They're more consistent. They're young guys at the Nationals want to mold into their future some way somehow or at least they did at one point in time. But also at this point, with Patrick Horbin, I don't think it's off the books to consider trading Patrick Horbin, yeah. It might sound insane to you, but two years ago, if you remember this, the Braves, the Atlanta Braves, came calling for Patrick Horbin. The Nationals were offered Marcelo Zuna, who is probably an MVP candidate at this point with the way that he's been hitting, certainly in the Silver Slugger conversation. The Nationals had that offer on the table. Now it would be a bad contract for a bad contract at that point in time, but the Nationals would have won that deal. I would not be surprised if Mike Rizzo, some way, somehow, worked a trade with Patrick Horbin involved. Now is this going to be a John Lester type of deal? Maybe. Are we going to get Lane Thomas back? Someone who has been your MVP the last two years of the scene? Probably not. It'll probably be the 110th best prospect in a team system. You might eat the rest of Patrick Horbin's contract, whatever. At this point in time, the Nationals, they've got a future foundation here. You've got Mackenzie Gore as your ace. You've got Jake Irvin as your two. You've got Mitchell Parker as your three. You've got Josiah Gray, who is your all-star last year, coming back as your four. You also add Cade Cavalli, who's going to be coming back from Tommy John hopefully sometime here soon, maybe in the next month, probably two months at this point. And then you also have DJ Hers, who's on the bump tonight. And even further more than that, you do have Jackson Rutledge, and also on top of it, you've got Trevor Williams, who I expect that they trade at this year's deadline. But at this point in time, the only option forward is getting Patrick Horbin out of this rotation, because while this scene has been competitive and while Patrick Horbin has pitched a lot better, Mike Rizzo and Davey Martinez, and as well as the rest of the Nationals organization, they've got their eyes in the future. You can't lose that sight of looking forward. And again, it's all about the young guys right now. It is about developing pitching in which the Nationals have done at an incredible rate. You also, not even a mention, have Brad Moore down in triple A right now, who has been wiped out. You have options. And again, this is the best situation the Nationals could be in. You have not developed pitching at this rate in forever under Mike Rizzo. It just has not happened. This has been the best of the best under Mike Rizzo. And now you have Patrick Horbin, who is still on the equation, who's still part of this team, but in reality, he should not be. He either should be traded. He should be in the bullpen or DFA him, eat the contract. Is it more meaningful to have Patrick Horbin pitch every few days to have five innings five earned runs over the next course of the calendar year? Or is it more important to have DJ hers develop up in the majors, who by the way, has shown a lot of promise so far? It is an interesting discussion to be had, but I think with Corbin pitching as well as he has been recently, I don't think it's insane to say that a team would just take a chance on Patrick Horbin, not to be their fifth starter, but for someone to have in the postseason, who has postseason experience when it has won a World Series, something the Padres have not done. So I think that Patrick Horbin being traded and a team wanting Patrick Horbin is not as crazy as what you may think. Yeah, he's not that good. Yeah, you won't get anything back or a turn, whatever. You're getting him off the books, you're getting someone else in here, and it allows some room for your young pitchers that you can go to a six man rotation and stretch out all your young pieces, like Josiah Gray, like Cade Cavalli, like Mitchell Parker, Jake Irvin, multiple guys in that room have had Tommy John surgery with Jake Irvin, as well as Cade Cavalli. You want to stretch those guys out. So having a six man rotation with all these young guys in the second half of the season, that is by far and away the most enticing thing and probably the best thing moving forward that this organization can do. Move on from Patrick Horbin. Thank you all for making lockdown nationals. Your first list in every single day is we are free and available wherever you get your podcast. 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AJ Preller, he's got no world series ring unit as a GM, the San Diego Padres irrelevant. Jerk some pro far irrelevant. Dylan Cease, he traded for him at this last winner, thought that he was going to be the front line ace, he's got a mid four ZRA on the season, he's not that good. DJ hers, 23 year old left handed pitcher, he's going to strike out 10 batters today. Go six innings pitch, only give up four hits, one earned run, you heard that line here first. Yes, listen, it's as simple as this. You bet with good organizations, the Padres, they aren't a good organization. They aren't, they aren't. They made me stay up until 1 a.m. last night, fuming over the way that they've did. Just terrible, awful, terrible baseball team, terrible organization, everything about them, not good. Guess what? If I'm Mike Rizzo at this point in time, I'm not conducting this in a professional manner. I'm not a professional person in fact. I get mad. The Nationals are mad, Jesse Winker by the way, we even get to talk about the game and what happened in yesterday's game. I don't care about what happened in yesterday's game. I'm mad. 10 hours ago, 1230 at night, we're watching this stupid Padres team. Do what they have to do, which is nothing, be irrelevant. You're asking, well, where's the preview for today? The preview is the Padres stink, AJ Preller stinks, Mike Schilt stinks. Guess what? We swept your ass in the NLCS in 2019, get ejected again, go for it. Come after Davey Martine as I'd love to see them fight. I know Davey is a little rough out there. Here's my thing about it, Dylan Cease stinks. The Padres stink San Diego got nice beaches stink. The Pacific Ocean, it's cold. Just like Padres fans hearts, because guess what? You've never seen a World Series in your life, trash, awful, jerks and pro far, bad, bad baseball player. He's had a good year, one good year. You know, I also had a good year, Victor Robles, but on top of that, he won a World Series. Sorry. He was also a former top prospect, Victor Robles, World Series Champion. Sorry. Ask Mike Schilt about it. He lost to him in the 2019 NLCS, got swept. Annabel Sanchez had a perfect game going. Max Scherzer had a no hitter going against him in that same series. Sorry. Padres may stink irrelevant. AJ Preller, call Mike Rizzo, let's make a train. You know what? Why don't you give up Jackson Merrill? Jackson Merrill for Patrick Corbin. You like selling jerseys. You like the big flashy names, Patrick Corbin's still a big name as a World Series champ. He was a winner in Game 7 in the World Series, something that you guys don't have. Sorry. Make that train, AJ Preller, call Mike Rizzo. So today's preview, you don't need a preview, Padres stink, irrelevant, stupid. I'm immature. Sorry. Thank you all for making lockdown nationals your first list every single day as we are free and available wherever you get your podcast. I think a lot of you learn a lot about me today. I'm a hater. I don't like the Padres anymore. Still a little fed up with last night's game. Keep out our ways. Let's set a bomb today. Manny Machado, he's getting a bench is clearing brawl. Why not? DJ Hers, he gets a little wild out there. He has had some tendencies to hit some guys in the past, not purposely, but his arms a little erratic, his young kid learning his way. So what'd you say? Beat the Padres. A prime member. You can listen to this locked on podcast ad free on Amazon music. Download the Amazon music app today. Delicious meets nutritious in the snack that packs a real protein punch, wonderful pistachios, and the highest protein nuts out there. Miller Thomas of Lockdown Dimebacks here. 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