Tobi and BMitch believe the Capitals and Commanders resurgence could give the Nationals the drive to be better.
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00:00A couple of Nationals pitchers were hanging out right there on the glass
00:02behind the Nets.
00:03Jake Irvin and Mackenzie Gore were at the game last night taking it in.
00:07I'm going to go over to Nats Park a little later,
00:08maybe ask them about their experience.
00:10But, yeah, it seemed like a great crowd, a good win for the Capitals.
00:13I really like seeing that, too, like all the other sports getting into it.
00:19You know, that makes a world of difference.
00:21You get the people in the town supporting each other.
00:24It's good stuff.
00:24What was it like during your time playing here?
00:26I mean, we went to a lot of the basketball games.
00:29It wasn't all the baseball, and hockey wasn't that good back then.
00:32But we went to the basketball games a lot,
00:34and everybody showed up at the football game early on because we were winning.
00:38You know, now it's flipped.
00:40The team that wins all the time, or the Cap.
00:43But it's kind of cool to see when you have those relationships,
00:46like that 18-19 run where the Capitals won and the Nationals were always there.
00:50And then the Nationals won and the Capitals were always there.
00:53It was cool to see that relationship.
00:54And for the longest time, with the previous ownership of the Commanders,
00:58nobody wanted to deal with him.
00:59No one wanted to be around.
01:00They went for the players and the team, but they didn't want to go for him.
01:04And now that has changed, right?
01:06They're embracing everybody.
01:07The Wizards, obviously, embracing because of the same ownership as the Capitals.
01:11So seeing all the teams back together again, it's nice to see.
01:14But what it does, more than anything, one team wins.
01:18All athletes are truly competitive.
01:20They're like, oh, we got to get one now.
01:22They don't just sit back and want to enjoy you doing it.
01:24They want to be able to do it, too.
01:25That's what I think is interesting.
01:26There's a new series out on Netflix.
01:28If you haven't checked it out, it's about the Red Sox.
01:30They followed them last year.
01:32And there's a clip when the Celtics showed up to a Red Sox game with the championship trophy
01:38and the guys walking through the clubhouse before the game and saying what's up to Jason
01:41Tatum and whatnot.
01:42And I can't remember who it was, but one reliever was talking to Joe Mazzula, head coach of the
01:48Celtics.
01:48And they were just chit-chatting.
01:50And he's like, seeing you all do that makes us want to get one.
01:52Hell yeah.
01:53How much does that push?
01:54When you have success with one team.
01:56Listen, man.
01:56If I see someone getting the love from the city, I want to see the love from the city.
02:02You know what I'm saying?
02:02I don't want to sit there and just be a fan.
02:05If you are a person getting paid to do a sport, you see somebody else getting all that love,
02:10you want to experience that.
02:11And you don't experience it by just showing up to the game and watching them.
02:14You go and work a little harder.
02:16You start doing things you weren't doing before.
02:18You know?
02:18Ask them questions.
02:19Hey, man, what did it take?
02:20You know, was it the team or did every individual comes back a little stronger, a little better?
02:26Yeah.
02:26All of a sudden, the team is a lot stronger, a lot better.
02:28And if you can get your team to do the same thing, then maybe you get that opportunity.
02:32Well, I bet you for guys like Jake Irvin and Mackenzie Gore, who haven't been here when
02:36the Nationals were good, right?
02:38They came over after 2019.
02:39They've been here after.
02:41It probably was, I wouldn't say eye-opening because they've seen the stadium pack before,
02:45but maybe not all Nats fans.
02:46Like, when the opening series was here, it was the Phillies.
02:49You see, you had a lot of Phillies fans mixed in there.
02:51It was still an electric environment, but not the same as all 18, whatever, 20,000 people
02:56were in captures and was cheering for the same team.
02:58I bet you that does motivate them.
03:00Like, I want to see Nats park like this.
03:01I think, was it Jaden that said, like, you know, he wanted to get Northwest just like
03:08that because he saw some game, I think, last year.
03:10Uh-huh.
03:10And it was packed.
03:11He wanted to see the same thing.
03:13It creeps in.
03:14Yeah.
03:15It creeps in, man.
03:16And if you could get, can you imagine getting Northwest one day, just all Burgundy and go,
03:20we'll see all the other teams.
03:23It's always.
03:23They could be on the outside trying to get in, but the hell with them being inside.
03:27It'd be nice.
03:28Yeah.
03:28It'd be nice to have it back to that because I never got to experience vintage RFK.