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NPDS - Baseball Hall of Fame class announced!; Giannis & Lillard got Adrian Griffin fired for Doc Rivers?; NBA ref report: not great! (Episode 975)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us now: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘Cooperstown’ as in the Baseball Hall of Fame as in Adrian Beltre as in Joe Mauer as in Todd Helton as in not Billy Wagner or Gary Sheffield. A little surprising to see Helton and not Wagner, but there’s always next year! Except for Sheffield. (11:33) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me why the Milwaukee Bucks fired Adrian Griffin. Woof. And for Doc Rivers!? (21:33) NPPOD. (26:15) Review: Oscar Noms. (31:35) What is going on with the refs? We had the NBA come out and say there were 10 incorrect calls in the final 2 minutes of the Hornets-Timberwolves game! 10! (38:00) Todd Bowles met the media and spoke about the Buccaneers loss to the Lions. Why didn’t they call a timeout? (43:46) So the Miami Heat have finally traded Kyle Lowry for Damian Lillard! Just kidding! They got Terry Rozier from the Hornets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

0:04.0

go. Oh. Cooper's Town, town. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the day for January 24th,

0:20.0

2004. Yesterday, I do not want to have to do that too many more times where I'm

0:26.6

watching something live and doing the live show welcome to the live

0:31.9

nothing personal what a day to get into the Hall of Fame. One of my

0:36.0

favorite things to do is to talk to players about Hall of Fame because players

0:39.7

say about the Hall of Fame what they say about winning an Academy Award, which is I don't think about it.

0:46.0

Of course they all think about it.

0:48.4

And you come to a point in your career when you acknowledge the fact that you have absolutely no chance to be in the Hall of Fame.

0:55.0

And it is the same sort of epiphany that you have when you're middle management or you have when you see what your lot is and that's your lot. And no one is feeling

1:05.5

sorry for anybody who plays professional baseball, but for anyone who does, you then

1:10.7

only have about a 1% chance of making it to the Hall of Fame.

1:14.0

And it's always interesting to hear what the best of the best think about

1:20.1

when they realize they're not the best of the best of the best of the best.

1:23.0

So there's all these hours of pre-game and you go on MLB network yesterday,

1:29.0

and the first thing we hear once it's time for the announcement

1:32.0

is that there are going to be

1:34.1

several additions to the Hall of Fame class and there had been thoughts that

1:38.9

there could be five people six people seven players so I got into a discussion with myself which are some of the best

1:45.0

discussions. What number is several? One is one, two's a couple. What's few?

1:52.8

To me, three is few, four is several.

1:55.6

Can three be few and several?

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