NPDS - Future of MLB looks like ESPN, NBC, and Netflix!? Could there be more!? Jerry Jones media tour against Parsons continues! (Episode 1342 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘reconcile’ as in ESPN as in MLB as in broadcast as in baseball as in DTC. What am I talking about? ESPN and MLB are back together again. It looks like MLB games will come to the new service that ESPN launched. National games, out-of-market, and so on. Sunday Night Baseball? That could be headed to NBC! And the Home Run Derby… Netflix! (13:00) NBC wants to takeover the sports world. Give me NFL! Give me NBA! Give me MLB! The Peacock is showing off now! (23:30) Jerry Jones just can’t help himself. Every day is something new. And he’s pushing Micah Parsons to the point where we don’t know if he’ll ever play for the Cowboys again. (33:40) Review: Somebody Somewhere. (37:00) NPPOD. (41:00) Pat Fitzgerald settled with Northwestern over his major lawsuit against the university. And he’s getting big bucks. And he was proven innocent. Woof. (49:00) The Brewers won on Thursday. Kyle Tucker played. Tucker went hitless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Reconcil.
0:37.7	That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Friday, August 22nd, 2025, and who isn't here for a great reconciliation?
0:47.2	ESPN and MLB will be walking down the aisle again as lovers, according to Andrew Marshand of the athletic, who let us know
0:57.3	that after that clumsy divorce, apparently they've decided to give it another shot. But there's some
1:08.9	complications. Quick primer, ESPN and MLB, Sunday night baseball, playoff games, home run derby,
1:19.2	ESPN and MLB together is won over the years back back back from the home run derby with Chris Berman
1:26.2	to the absolute block C of SportsC
1:32.0	and then there was an opt-out.
1:35.8	I remember Coco when the opt-out
1:37.9	was going to be part of a deal.
1:40.2	And the question was,
1:41.5	will ESPN opt out of this?
1:42.6	Will MLB opt out of it?
1:43.7	You like the possibility of getting more money because everybody's rights fees are going up, up, up. There was no end in sight. And then all of a sudden, there were some regional sports network issues. There were some revenue, television revenue issues. ESPN looks around and says,
2:01.4	huh, I've got to spend more money on football.
2:04.1	I'm way more focused on football.
2:06.1	I don't want to pay $550 million for the bag of rights that I have from MLB,
2:12.4	so I'm going to opt out.
2:14.1	MLB said, no problem, I'm going to opt out.
2:19.8	Anything you can do, I can do better.
2:24.8	I can do anything better than you. And the two of them left and Rob Manford said to the owners,
2:33.3	good luck and good riddance. ESPN is a shrinking platform. That was his note to owners when the deal ended. Then Noah Guard and the deputy
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