NPDS - Dodgers sign Blake Snell! They can't keep getting away with this... can they? (Episode 1176)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘vindication’ as in Blake Snell as in Scott Boras as in the Dodgers as in $182 million. That’s right, the reigning World Series champions have signed Blake Snell. Wow. A rotation of Snell, Glasnow, Yamamoto, and Ohtani? That is some good stuff. Unless you’re a fan of another team. (12:10) Let’s talk about what’s going on in college football now. Pay to play is alive and well. You have donors, you have recruits. It’s the Wild Wild West! How do you feel about this? (22:00) Jake Paul and his promotional team had release a statement about his fight with Mike Tyson. People thought it was a fake, fixed, a Fugazi. Well… (35:35) Review: Call Me Ted. (40:30) The Atlanta Hawks were fined by the NBA. Keep resting players, keep getting fined. (46:20) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	Here you go.
0:05.0	It is Wednesday.
0:20.0	November 27, 2024.
0:24.6	Vindication. Scott Boris has been vindicated.
0:27.6	Blake Snell has signed a huge contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
0:33.6	The rich get richer.
0:36.6	Let's take you back to last year when Scott Boris had a bunch of clients of
0:40.9	which Blake Snell was one of them, one of the big four, like the big four game animals on safari
0:48.1	that you may see, no deals to be found long term. So we went short term with opt-outs. Blake Snell signs into spring
0:56.7	training has a very tough start to the season in San Francisco. The Giants were the team that
1:03.8	swooped in and signed two of the guys, Chapman and Snell. The Giants tried to improve last year and had a miserable season
1:14.4	missing the playoffs, forcing a change in front office. Hello, Buster Posey. And now Blake
1:22.6	Snell has left the Giants for his third National League West team in three years. When you opt out,
1:31.0	that means he collected $32 million last year. He turned down the second year that would have been
1:37.0	$30 million of a two-year, $62 million deal. He goes back to market. He tells his agent,
1:43.1	Scott Boris, do me a favor. Find me a deal before
1:46.7	Thanksgiving. Scott Boris gives the book to Los Angeles Dodgers and says, look at yourselves.
1:53.7	Look at how lucky you got to win the World Series. Yes, they are the defending, reigning World Series
1:59.9	Champions, lest you forget that a month ago, probably yesterday, Freddie Freeman with that unbelievable walkoff.
2:06.8	But in any case, you tell the Dodgers, don't you want to be a dynasty?
2:11.7	Don't you want to win back to back becoming the first team since the Yankees, 1998 to 2000?
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