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    Al Galdi

    Al Galdi is the host of The Al Galdi Podcast, a Monday-Friday podcast on Washington, D.C.-area sports. During his near-23-year run at The Team 980 WTEM-Washington, D.C. hosted a number of shows, including Chin Music with Al Galdi, which was the only year-round Nationals radio show in the D.C. market. He is a DMV lifer, having graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1997 and the University of Maryland in 2001. And Galdi is a major proponent of analytics.

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    Mark Zuckerman

    Mark Zuckerman has covered the Nationals since 2005 (their first season in D.C.) for multiple outlets, including MASNsports.com since 2016. He's been president of the Baltimore-Washington chapter of the BBWAA, was named D.C. Sportswriter of the Year in 2017 by the National Sports Media Association and is a Baseball Hall of Fame voter. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Phoenix, Mark graduated from Northwestern University in 1998. He wrote for the Arizona Republic, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Washington Times and NBC Sports Washington prior to joining MASN, and in 2010 created the Nats Insider blog and covered the team independently for one year solely via reader support.