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Le Batard & Friends Network

NPDS - Dodgers $1.16 BILLION spending spree: Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto! (Episode 958)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 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 here: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘$1.16 BILLION’ as in the Dodgers and in Shohei Ohtani as in Tyler Glasnow as in Yoshinobu Yamamoto as in the Los Angeles Dodgers have taken over. How ddi this deal happen? How long is the contract? Is it a Shohei style deal? What do the Yankees and Mets do now? (17:40) MLB has new rules for 2024. Sorry players. The Competition Committee voted and it passed. Why? Because the owners hold a majority on the committee! (32:10) Review: Survivor 45. (38:10) It’s the NFL Weekend Takeover! 7 standalone games! Thursday! Saturday! Sunday! Monday! FOOTBALL! (42:00) NPPOD. (45:20) Have you seen Zion Williamson’s contract clauses? Health and conditioning is a big one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

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go. go. 1.16 billion.

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1.16 billion.

0:20.0

Boom! Welcome to the last live show of 2023.

0:26.0

Our first live show was the first show we did after last year's Christmas break.

0:31.0

We started live at 8 a.m. and you've all been with us every step of the way.

0:36.2

Grown every day. More people watching on nothing personal with David Sampson

0:41.1

YouTube channel. Hit subscribe.

0:43.9

Thank you for everything this year.

0:46.6

We're gonna keep going, but we still have a show today.

0:50.6

And then next week you're gonna to get three mailbag episodes.

0:53.0

But let's now get into a show because last night I was minding my own business.

0:58.0

Had a glass of wine, went out to dinner,

1:01.0

getting ready for the show before the call with Cocoa.

1:04.8

We do the call.

1:05.8

We're ready to lead off with rule changes in Major League Baseball.

1:09.2

We've got a whole bunch of things you want to get to.

1:12.0

And then I start watching Reacher season two and then

1:18.2

beep beep ring ring beep when things happen like that late at night either someone's croaked which is never positive or

1:27.3

There's breaking news which is normally positive I got cebS calling get on the air koka Yamamoto signed he couldn't have signed who did he sign with

1:37.2

Didn't sign with the Dodgers

1:39.6

Aaron Boone just told us that Aaron Boone gave him a jersey.

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