NPDS - Final takeaways from the WBC! The WNBA has a new CBA agreement: who won!? (Episode 1428 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘culture’ as in Venezuela as in America as in Puerto Rico as in Dominican Republic as in Japan as in Korea as in Italy as in World Baseball Classic! It’s all over. Venezuela won the damn thing. United States finishes as the bridesmaid for the second consecutive tournament. Woof. Let’s talk about the tournament, Miami, the future of the WBC, and the impact on MLB. (22:35) The WNBA has a new agreement. How fun! Let’s break it all down. (33:50) Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. (37:40) The NFLPA has a new executive director. It’s former player president JC Tretter. How did that happen? (46:00) Is the NFL going to replace the refs? It could happen! (50:30) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Project Hail Mary is an awe-inspiring masterpiece.
0:03.0	I'm not an astronaut.
0:06.0	Critics are in agreement. It's utterly spellbinding.
0:09.0	So, I met an alien.
0:11.0	Mesmerizing and profoundly moving.
0:13.0	It's now or never.
0:15.0	Thumbs up, baby.
0:16.0	Project Hail Mary.
0:17.0	Amaze, amaze, amaze.
0:19.0	In Cinemas Now. Thank you. You know, Culture. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Thursday, March 19th,
1:04.4	2006. Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
1:14.1	Culture is a word that gets thrown around in sports, in life.
1:19.5	What's the culture?
1:21.9	Culture differences.
1:24.6	A throat culture.
1:27.1	Culture has been a word around the world baseball classic.
1:30.3	For 20 years.
1:32.3	Culture has been a word around baseball for a hundred years.
1:37.3	Culture is meant to give a frame of reference to a conversation and conversationalists. It's meant to explain
1:48.6	differences in passion. It's meant to explain differences in how you approach a conversation
1:56.4	about a person, a place, or a thing.
2:04.0	The reason culture's on my mind is that that's all I'm hearing about
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