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Le Batard & Friends Network

Is Mets and Dodgers an NLCS preview again? Will Apple come and gobble up more MLB rights!? MLBA FBI investigation! (Episode 1289 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘preview’ as in Dodgers as in Mets as in baseball as in playoffs. Let’s talk about the 4-game series in June and what it could say for both teams moving forward. Will we see a rematch of last season’s NLCS? I’d also like to talk about Lou Gehrig Day in MLB and what an awful disease ALS is. (10:30) Fredi Gonzalez is back! Our guy! He’s back with the Braves! (18:00) When will we know where MLB games where MLB games will be played next year? Is it ESPN? Is it Apple? Is it NBC? Is it somewhere else!? (31:20) Review: Hacks Season 4. (35:10) Let’s talk about ratings! Everyone is obsessed with ratings. From press releases to cover stories to talking fans. Why are we so into the ratings? (42:30) NPPOD. (47:40) The FBI is investigation the MLBPA and NFLPA. Uh oh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.8

entrepreneurs like you. I'm Preview. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025.

1:13.0

And last night we were treated to both a preview and a rematch.

1:18.4

A rematch of the National League Championship Series when the New York Mets traveled to Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers.

1:25.8

A preview because odds tell me that that the two teams will be left standing

1:31.7

when October is beginning to come to its conclusion.

1:36.4

As I was thinking about the game, I was thinking about what these two teams needed to get out of this four-game series,

1:43.8

pondering the reality of how to get players to understand the importance of a four-game

1:48.5

June series, when they're on the West Coast or when they're at a home series,

1:52.7

thinking about all the stuff they have to do off the field, front office, trying to get

1:56.8

clearly into their minds, hey, let's get this one. Let's send a statement. The reason I used to

2:03.9

say that is I knew the players didn't care about that. There's no such thing as a regular season

2:07.8

statement, but you got to do something in order to get people's hair standing on edge during the

2:14.6

interminable regular season. So what do you do?

2:18.2

You make up stuff.

2:19.9

And what you make up is, hey, New York, Mendoza, line, talking to the players.

2:27.6

Let's just show them that we can stay with them.

2:29.7

Let's show them instead of losing four to two in a seven game championship series, that we can come take

2:36.3

three of four in their building. And the best way to take three of four in their building,

2:41.1

because normally when you're on the road in a four game series, you say to the team,

2:44.8

let's just split. Winning three out of four would be a bonus. Losing three out of four is

2:49.7

negative, getting swept. Let's not talk

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