NPDS - Another MLB investigation into gambling! A look at the Big Beautiful Bill and what's inside! (Episode 1308 Hour 2)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Another professional player is under investigation for gambling. This time it’s in baseball again. Luis Ortiz of the Cleveland Guardians is on leave right now as the league looks into a few pitches he threw. That’s right… this is on PITCHES! Jonas Valanciunas has to honor his contract. That’s what the Denver Nuggets said after trading for the center. He wants to play in Greece. Oh well! Big Beautiful Bill talk. What happened in Texas over the weekend is incredibly sad, and terrifying. My time at the San Siro in Italy. What a stadium. An old stadium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.1	So excited to be back live on the Nothing Person with David Sampson YouTube channel.
1:12.2	I forgot that we take a break, but not for long.
1:17.2	How many more players do we suspect are going to get caught, screwing around, and gambling?
1:23.7	I assume there's no end in sight.
1:25.5	The news that happened this weekend was shocking to me in a not shocking way.
1:32.4	Luis Ortiz is a player for the Cleveland Guardians.
1:35.6	He is under investigation by Major League Baseball right now.
1:39.4	And here's what happened.
1:41.4	There is some question whether he may have been involved in some sort of bet
1:47.7	based on a pitch thrown. Yes, it's true. There are markets like that. And before we start
1:56.2	criticizing gambling companies, and this has nothing to do with the fact that Draft Kings is a sponsor.
2:02.2	I've said the same thing back when I was still in baseball.
2:06.8	The opportunity to have gambling companies, the business is good and the oversight is good.
2:15.3	The business is better, but the oversight is real. The ability to catch people
2:22.0	doing things is easier now, not harder. The players are told this. They know it. It is in every
2:31.6	language, English, Spanish, Japanese, Latin.
2:37.4	It doesn't matter.
2:39.6	Italian.
2:41.3	What Luis Ortiz is accused of doing and what they're investigating is whether or not there was a pitch where you can say, will that be a ball, will that be a strike, that there was an unusual bet for a ball, and then a ball was thrown. And it wasn't like, oh, is the
2:56.9	umpire in on this? It was one of those where when you're watching a game, you say, wow, he held
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