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    Al Galdi

    Al Galdi is the host of The Al Galdi Podcast, which started in Feb. 2021 and is a top-rated Monday-Friday podcast about Washington, D.C.-area sports. Galdi during a near-23-year run at The Team 980 WTEM-Washington, D.C. from May 1998 to Jan. 2021 hosted a number of shows, including Chin Music with Al Galdi, which was the only year-round Washington 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, now for Nats Journal, which became one of Substack's most-subscribed sports websites within a week of launch in February 2026. He's been president of the Baltimore-Washington chapter of the BBWAA, was named D.C. Sportswriter of the Year in both 2017 and 2021 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, NBC Sports Washington and MASN prior to launching Nats Journal.