Tim Kurkjian
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907 appearances
11 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 15 Jul
Tim Kurkjian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the Nationals, just because they're your home team, certainly are near the top of the list of surprising teams to me.
Yeah, I think the difference is they are always, always on the lookout for the best matchup in the game.
Where is it?
Because they use a different lineup every night, except for James Wood hitting leadoff, that's what they're doing as a young player.
really young front office and manager are always searching for ways to find something different that might work.
And this is one of their strengths.
They get into the sixth inning of a game and they already know, well, we have Curtis Meade ready for the left-hander when he comes in or whatever it is.
Those things are all set up before the game starts.
I think that's the biggest difference is they have
they have these matchups already prepared before the game.
Not like old school guys don't, but I think the new school guys do even better.
And I had a long talk with Blake Butera the other day, Tony, and I was struck by a couple things.
I saw him
But right after the Nationals lost three straight games to the Phillies, in which a ninth-inning homer was hit, three games in a row never happened before.
And instead of him being ready to kill himself, which he was ready to kill himself, he looked at me and he said, how many great notes did you come out of out of that three-game series?
He recognized how amazing that was.
in baseball history.
I thought that was a very, very healthy and encouraging question to ask.
Like, he wanted to know, like, what did you find about this?
And then, Tony, he asked me, he said, how well do you know Buck Showalter?
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