NPDS - Fernando Tatis Jr lawsuit! Major Wander Franco update! Athletics host groundbreaking ceremony! (Episode 1302 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘predatory’ as in loans as in money as in Fernando Tatis Jr as in Big League Advance. What are we talking here? Well a company is being sued by Tatis Jr because of a contract he signed when he was a teen. Why is he doing this now? (21:02) Wander Franco update. The disgraced Rays star is in court in the Dominican Republic facing charges of sexual abuse against a minor. Just a very gross case. And on Thursday we’ll get a ruling. (31:00) Review: Deep Cover. (35:30) The Athletics held the groundbreaking ceremony in Las Vegas yesterday. What a special day. (47:00) NPPOD. (49:30) The NBA ratings came out for Game 7. Monster numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Predatory. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, June 24th,
0:42.0	2025. Predatory. No, we're not starting with Wander Franco today. We're going to start with
0:50.1	Fernando Tatis Jr. and the lawsuit that he's filed against Big League Advance.
0:57.8	Big League Advance is a company that we have talked about on Nothing Personal before,
1:02.4	where they go around to minor league players and they say,
1:06.2	hi, we would like to give you money.
1:08.6	And generally, minor league players say,
1:10.7	we'd love to get money from you.
1:12.9	What's it for?
1:14.0	Well, nothing.
1:15.0	You just go ahead with your minor league career.
1:17.6	Take our money.
1:18.9	Then we will take 10% of every big league contract that you sign.
1:25.9	It's right there in writing. It is a simple, simple business
1:31.3	transaction. Fernando Tatis grew up into a star major league player, signed a $340 million deal.
1:41.6	The quick math means that Big league advance gets $34 million.
1:46.3	And Fernando Tatis Jr. said, hold on, I don't love my plan. Therefore, I'm going to sue them
1:54.4	and I'm going to say that they used predatory practices to secure loans from idiots.
2:03.6	And I'm going to get lawyers to agree with me in California because there's a law in
2:08.3	California that says correctly so.
2:11.1	You can't really go out there and do anything illegal and try to lend money to people
2:17.3	who are unsophisticated using certain methods that would be deemed
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