NPDS - Final weekend of MLB regular season is here and there's A LOT to play for!; Curt Schilling can't help himself! Did the Trail Blazers really ask Dame to tank!? (Episode 900)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Get yourself a Horse Hockey! tee here: davidsamsonpodcast.com Today’s word of the day is ‘final weekend’ as in Friday as in Saturday as in Sunday as in the regular season in MLB is about to be over! So much is still on the line! Will the Marlins have to play a half-inning on Monday!? Did the Cubs implosion continue? Who wins the AL West? Who makes the AL Wild Card!? (12:30) The Baltimore Orioles have won 100 games. The Baltimore Orioles have won the AL East. The Baltimore Orioles have finished with the best record in the American League. (17:20) Angel Hernandez is at it again. Because of course. (21:10) Curt Schilling violated clubhouse rules. Curt Schilling violated Tim Wakefield’s trust. (30:00) Review: Grand Tourismo. (33:45) A story was released about Damian Lillard and his fallout with the Portland Trail Blazers. What happened? Tanking accusations. Bad ones. (39:35) Inter Miami is raising prices. We knew that would happen. How much they raised them is the bigger deal. (43:45) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go, here you go.
0:07.0	Final weekend, that's the word of the day.
0:19.2	That's the phrase of the day for this episode number 900 of Nothing Personal with David
0:25.5	Sampson.
0:26.5	It is Friday, September 29, 2023, 900 regular episodes, plus all the sit-downs and mailbags
0:35.3	and all the different things we do, but 900 words of the day.
0:41.1	Way back in February when spring training opened.
0:45.2	It seems as though the end of the season is so far away.
0:50.6	We talk about one game, five games, April.
0:54.2	It's early.
0:55.2	It's late early.
0:56.6	It's early middle.
0:58.8	We are now late late.
1:01.8	As we head into the final season, every single year, the goal of Major League Baseball
1:07.5	is to have something on the line in the final weekend.
1:11.9	Baseball took the time to release some statistics to you yesterday that attendance is hitting
1:19.0	going to hit 70 million back to pre-COVID levels.
1:23.9	Numbers not reached since 2017, coincidentally the last year that I was lying about the
1:29.7	Marlon's attendance.
1:33.3	With minor league baseball included, over 100 million people will attend baseball games.
1:39.3	It is hard to argue that the rule changes that we spent so much time discussing have been
1:45.2	nothing except perfect for the game.
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