NPDS - 2026 MLB schedule release: 25th anniversary of 9/11, Athletics in Vegas, Rays back at the Trop? (Episode 1344 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘dress’ as in Taylor Swift as in Travis Kelce as in engagement as in MLB as in schedule release! The 2026 MLB schedule came out yesterday. Let’s take a look at some of the series that were announced. What stood out to you? (19:00) The Houston Astros are still in trouble, but finally got some good news. Yordan Alvarez is back in the lineup! He missed 100 games with his hand injury. And the Astros have been bad bad bad recently. (23:15) Nathan Eovaldi is done for the season. Terrible. He was having a career-year at age 35. (33:40) Review: Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. (37:45) Andrew Heaney was released by the Pirates. People have criticized Pittsburgh for doing this when he has bonus incentives to hit. It’s wrong. (45:10) FIFA and Trump are hand in hand right now. Get ready for the World Cup Draw in DC. (51:00) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Dress. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
0:42.6	If you're not with me, that's okay.
0:45.4	Because I'm going to spend 30 seconds on the song that talks about anticipation.
0:53.2	It's a Taylor Swift song.
0:54.8	Stay with me, Swifties.
0:57.2	Congratulations, Travis and Taylor.
0:59.2	I am dedicating this amount of time
1:03.0	to the engagement of Travis and Taylor.
1:07.8	And done.
1:10.8	The reason why we chose dress as the word of the day is that and done.
1:15.9	The reason why we chose dress as the word of the day is that if you know it's about anticipation and then you're using your head trying to guess our word of the day
1:20.2	because you're playing the game that if you're on the live chat 7 a.m.
1:25.0	Easter, nothing personal with David Samson YouTube channel, and you guess the word of the day,
1:30.4	then guess what? You win. If you're the first to guess it, of course, in the chat. And Koka declares you
1:38.0	the winner. Then you get a piece of merchandise from David Sampson podcast.com. we follow up we send it the reason why we were
1:47.6	looking for an anticipation song that mixed with teller swift is that yesterday was a huge day a day
1:55.8	a day that baseball's trying to own august 26th year, or at least this year, the thought was,
2:05.6	let's do our schedule release and let's make it like the NFL or the NBA, but most of the
2:13.2	NFL, where everyone is waiting on pins and needles.
2:18.9	There's pregame.
2:19.9	There's post game.
2:20.8	There's analysis.
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