I remember sitting in a radio station getting ready to co-host my first live radio show in the Washington, D.C. market. It was the summer of 2009, and I was a new hire at a brand new FM sports-talk station in my hometown, the first of its kind. Having talked into microphones my entire adult life, I wasn’t nervous. I was excited to finally get to focus on the local teams I grew up caring about.
I still remember one of the first topics on which I ever solicited caller input: “which major sports teams in D.C. will be the first to end the city’s championship drought?” I didn’t know it back then but it would be another nine agonizing years before the title levy broke and water finally released to the dehydrated masses.
In June 2018, when the Capitals partied their way down Constitution Avenue as Stanley Cup champions for the first time in franchise history, Washington’s hockey club ended a dry spell that felt like it would last in perpetuity. Years of fans…
