District Baseball

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back recapping a Wild Card Series week and our thoughts on eliminating the Wild Card Game in favor of a Wild Card, best of 3, series moving forward. We preview the division series before saying goodbye to Sean Doolittle and talking about the Nats moving on from long time organizational pitching coach Paul Menhart. What does the 2021 Nats team look like? Well dcNATSHACK is...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back reflecting on an anticlimactic follow up to a championship season for the Nats. We play Nat or Not will all of the expiring contracts the Nats have to see if we see those players returning to the Nats for the 2021 season. Before we give our Postseason predictions for the 2020 playoffs, we do a quick rewind to see how our preseason predictions have played out (Hint: n...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back as the season is winding down. The Nats hit 19-31 again, but no resurrections this time. We talk about what went wrong in this shortened season and how it affects the team going into 2021. Eaton hits the IL, does this end his time as a Nat? We revisit everyone's favorite trade.  And finally, we talk about the 5 things we miss most about being at a baseball game....

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back talking about Nationals baseball with just two weeks left in the regular season. We examine our feelings on the season as a whole and what we expect moving forward. We also do a User submitted Fair or Foul segment analyzing all of the best takes from Nationals' Twitter. Later, we are joined by NBCSportsWashington's Matt Weyrich again to get his takes on the s...

Nick and Ryan are leading this episode as Amanda  is on vacation. The two talk all the latest Nats news including Rizzo's extension and if Davey Martinez and Treat Turner will follow. They then talk some of their biggest surprises and disappointments so far for the 2020 season. Twitter is officially put on notice as the Worst Tweet of the Week segment is back and Nick has an idea to fix MLB Br...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back and breaking down the surprisingly active trade deadline of 2020. We talk about the Padres going all-in, the Marlins getting the best bat available, and the Nats doing absolutely nothing. We also discuss what it means for Rizzo, his future, and the rest of the season. And since we are at the halfway point of this shortened 2020 season, we take a trip down memory lane...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back with a loaded episode including a ton of Heater Questions. We recap the latest week in Nats news including Strasburg going down, Crowe coming up, Trea and Luis going off, and Eaton stinking it up. We also play Contender or Pretender with some of the fringe playoff teams to see who we think stands a legitimate shot of making a run in the playoffs. We finally debate a...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back talking a busy week in Nats baseball as multiple arms and big names have hit the injured list. We talk Strasburg and Doolittle, as well as Castro, and if we will see any of them again this season. We talk about the multiple debuts we saw this week, including Seth Romero, Dakota Baucus and one Luis Garcia, and how this is the time to let them play and prove themselves...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back and talking a very underwhelming week of Nats baseball. COVID is still impacting players, staff, games and series across the league, including the Nats. The crew talks a very below average lineup with some major questions and injury scares within the starting rotation. We address Sean Doolittle and his struggles (politely, don't worry) and Fair or Foul returns! L...

A full-ish week of action is in the books as Amanda, Nick and Ryan recap a crazy week in sports that was disrupted by COVID. The Marlins and Cardinals experienced a major COVID outbreak leaving many questions to be answered for what a baseball season will look like. On the Nats' side, they too were impacted by COVID as the Marlins were unable to travel for the weekend series, giving the Nats 3...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan finally get to recap some Major League Baseball action after a full weekend of games, including the Nats' series against the Yankees. The FYI segment is back and giving you the 4-1-1 on the recently ratified Expanded Playoffs for the 2020 season going from 10 to 16 teams and what teams benefit the most from it. We also roll out a new segment called Nats Spat, where we go...

On the last episode before the 2020 MLB season kicks off, Amanda, Nick and Ryan give their season and playoff predictions for this shortened 2020 season. Nick also includes a couple of surprises in his predictions... The crew also covers the Minor League System Update, Freddie Freeman, Nick's Random Thought of the Week and a Fan Appreciation segment with all of your twitter questions! Follow u...

Amanda is back as the crew gives their predictions for all of the individual season awards, including Cy Young and MVP. We talk about how a 60 game season will impact the Cy Young and MVP races and give three bold predictions for the season. We also give an update on the COVID protocols being enforced as teams return to Summer Camp as well as the one major flaw in the MLB's COVID testing. Foll...

Nick and Ryan steal the show this episode as they break down the powerhouse AL and NL East divisions team by team. They also give a quick recap of the previous episodes where we broke down the West and Central divisions and give thoughts on what teams benefit the most from the change to a 60 game season. Listen in! Follow us on Twitter: Ryan - @dcNATSHACK Nick - @HalfShackCap Amanda - @AWhite7877...

Ramping back up with weekly episodes again as the MLB has announced a return to play plan! Amanda, Nick and Ryan discuss the plan, how sound it is, what it entails, and everything in between. We also get a plethora of twitter questions which leads to one of the more heated debates in HSHH History - does a 60 game regular season World Series title deserve an asterisk? You'll have to listen in t...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back with some major news coming out of baseball with the players outright calling the Commissioner's bluff. We talk Owner collusion, what this means for the possibility of a season, and even what it means for the CBA negotiations next year. We then talk about the MLB Draft and discuss the Nats' draft picks of the shortened 5 round draft, including a great intervi...

Amanda, Nick and Ryan are back digesting a ton of baseball news centered around the negotiations between the Owners and the Players. We break down why nobody should be on the owners' side of these negotiations and just how bad this is for baseball. We discuss the shortened season, the prorated salaries, and the numerous impacts felt by the minor league players due to Owner selfishness. We then...

In our longest episode yet, we go down a bunch of different rabbit holes in one of the funniest shows we've had. Best friend and recurring guest Sam Fortier of the Washington Post joins the show to talk his recent switch to the NFL, the best and worst uniforms in baseball, and what the Nats need to do with their uniforms. Amanda, Nick and Ryan have a draft of the best team uniforms in baseball...

The crew is back after a couple weeks off still surviving through quarantine. We examine yet another proposal for baseball in 2020 and determine whether or not we think it is going to happen. We address the rumors Ryan Zimmerman might just outright retire, the Red Sox punishment, Alex Cora, and more! To top it off, we give two "realistic" rule changes each that we'd like to see happen...

The crew is back with a quarantine update and discusses whether or not we will see baseball played in 2020. We then are joined by special guest and MASN XTRA host Bo Porter! Bo joins us to talk about his work with the Nats, his time with the Astros (yes, those Astros), and weighs in on a very controversial debate among the HSHH crew... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/half-street-high-h...

On this episode of Half Street High Heat, we are still on lockdown due to the Coronavirus, but we actually have some news going down in baseball! Our crew breaks down the agreement between the MLB and the MLBPA and what it means for a potential 2020 regular season and postseason. We examine Scott Boras' proposal for a condensed regular season with a December postseason at neutral sites around...

On this episode of HSHH, we have arguably are most unusual episode of all time. The Coronavirus has knocked out all sports and entertainment, so we provide a brief update on where the Sports World stands and what we expect will happen in the next few weeks. Information is changing by the hour, so please stay up to date and take care of not on yourself, but those around you. Half Street High Heat r...

On today's episode, the coverage of the rest of the MLB continues as Nick and Ryan head to the midwest and cover the AL & NL central divisions. Prior to that, Ryan gives a quick Spring Training update where the guys give an honest take on whether or not we should be concerned with the Nats' second worst ranked offense in Spring Training. To wrap up the episode, the guys talk about thei...

Our division preview coverage starts off with the very top heavy AL & NL West. We dive in with our analysis of what to expect for each team this year and where we see them finishing once the season is all said and done. Later, we circle back to our Nats and give our thoughts on what the fight song should be and what this year's hashtag should be. Amanda has an all time bad one too.... Foll...

On today's HSHH, Nick and Ryan talk about the never-ending saga that is the Astros cheating scandal and how even the COMMISSIONER of baseball is making it worse. They talk implications for the upcoming season and how bad, but also good, of a look it is for baseball. Later, Amanda sits down with Alex Chappell of MASN to talk all things Nats' Spring Training! The show wraps up with the boys...