Hurricane Helene forces Mets-Braves postponement! Caitlin Clark's season is over, now what for WNBA? More on the UNLV mess! (Episode 1134)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘contingency’ as in backup plans as in hurricane planning as in Mets as in Braves as in postponed. How did MLB allow this to happen? The planning was so poor! (11:12) The Yankees have some more problems with pitching again. Nestor Cortes is done. Flexor strain. Bad timing for this injury. Can Judge and Soto be enough or will pitching be the letdown? (16:20) NPPOD. (19:12) The Indiana Fever season is done. Caitlin Clark’s rookie season is over. What a season. Viewership is up. Merch sales are up. Attendance is up. (31:10) Review: Almost Famous. (35:07) We have an update on UNLV v. Matthew Sluka. What a mess college sports are. (45:30) The Ohtani 50th home run ball is going up for auction. Starting price will be $500K but if you want to buy it now it can be yours for $4.5 million. (50:30) Steve Cohen wants a casino. Will he get it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.
0:03.0	With the U-A for Champions League kicking off and a brand new format for the new season,
0:07.0	you've got to wonder, will anything ever be the same?
0:10.0	Well, one thing you can know for sure is that Pepsi Max, as proud sponsors of the
0:14.8	Men's and Women's Champions League, will be cheering from the sidelines like
0:18.2	never before. Pepsi Max, thirsty for more. Contingency. That's the nothing personal word of the day, it is Thursday, September 26,
0:46.5	2024, contingency as defined in the dictionary, a future event or circumstance which is possible, but cannot be
0:59.4	predicted with certainty.
1:03.0	Contingency.
1:05.0	Do you think a hurricane planning for hurricane is contingency?
1:11.0	Let me tell you exactly what's going on in baseball,
1:14.2	because it's an absolute cluster.
1:18.4	An inexcusable cluster.
1:22.8	MOB's been dealing with hurricanes since the beginning of time.
1:27.8	For 18 years, two of which in Montreal, 16 in Florida, dealt with hurricanes for 16 seasons.
1:36.6	We're in touch with the Commissioner, we're in touch with the scheduling people, the
1:41.2	Labor Department,
1:42.8	the on-field operations department.
1:45.9	We're not in touch 24 hours before hurricane comes.
1:49.2	It's a hurricane for crying out loud.
1:51.8	It's not like we're on a fault line. Man, I don't know, there could be an earthquake right now.
1:56.8	What's our contingency plan for the earthquake? Well, if there's an earthquake and we got to check,
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