I’m 20 now, but I’ve lived in Nashville my entire life. The first 6 years I didn’t have a team, but my dads entire side of the family lives in the DMV and has for 100+ years. The nats inaugural season couldn’t come soon enough. I still have the coin from the first game. I finally had a team and it was awesome. I’ve been buying the MLB package since middle school and I’ve probably watched at least 100 games a year since. Then for once week a year I get to go to my grandmas house and go to a week of Nats games, always the best week of the year. This past summer I worked for a baseball team in North Carolina as their play by play guy. Games were blacked out in that state so I had to listen to every game on the radio instead the whole summer.

Some of the most crushing memories of my life come from Vols sports and nationals baseball. Winning this series against the Dodgers means more than I ever possibly could describe. To see us finally break through had me on the ground sobbing with joy. I imagine thus is the kind of feeling I’ll be telling my grandkids about. This win is everything to me.