NPDS - Mets fire back at claims of Pete Alonso being toxic, but will he be traded?; Update on Wander Franco; Barstool Sports enters layoffs (Episode 879)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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For everyone asking about the Wait to Sees, Movie Reviews, and David's Top 100: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jl_qRYCA04IqNp-pmcfGQoaF6rA_7f4RigR1ZPY7dQo/edit?usp=sharing Today’s word of the day is ‘it’s not personal’ as in business as in Pete Alonso as in the New York Mets are having a season to forget. What now? Pete Alonso was called “toxic” but the Mets say that’s BS! What about a trade? It can happen. (13:20) Another bad update with Wander Franco. Another complaint filed against him. (24:20) Review: John Wick 4. (29:30) Barstool Sports has entered the layoffs world. Reportedly 25% of the company has to be cut. This is on the heels of the break up with PENN Entertainment. (36:50) NPPOD. Braves vs Dodgers alert! Betts and Freeman vs Acuña and Olson! (41:00) The Indianapolis Colts have entered the dysfunction market. Welcome! Danny Snyder is gone. Jim Irsay is at the plate! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's not personal, that's the word of the day, that's the phrase of the day.
0:21.4	It's perfect.
0:22.7	It's not personal, spoken by Peter Lanzo.
0:26.1	Today is August 31st, the final day of August, 2023.
0:31.6	Peter Lanzo is a player for the Mets who have had an amazing season, totally outperformed
0:37.6	preseason expectations, gotten help from so many different areas, great pitching, great
0:43.2	hitting, a good bullpen.
0:45.2	Diaz has been terrific, Sherser and Verlander outstanding.
0:48.7	Peter Lanzo has been his usual self.
0:51.8	He'll hit 40 home runs, drive in 100.
0:55.2	Yet all the talk is about Peter Lanzo and how he possibly was going to be traded and
1:01.2	how the brewers almost got him at the trade deadline.
1:06.6	There's so many iterations of trades that happened around the trade deadline.
1:12.0	You send packages to different teams.
1:15.3	Lanzo was in a package to five teams, I bet, minimum and another five or ten teams called
1:21.7	about Lanzo, minimum.
1:24.8	But you leak the one about the brewers and sometimes leaks are right, depending on who's
1:30.3	doing the leaking and why.
1:32.4	The leak of the Jose Fernandez trade to the Diamondbacks, that ended up being right
1:37.6	and then confirmed by me after the fact, years after the fact.
1:41.9	We don't know whether Peter Lanzo's trade to Milwaukee was happening or not.
1:46.3	But the Mets have a problem.
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