NPDS - MLB Memorial Day: does your team have a chance?; Ohtani takes the mound... kinda! When will Royals call up Jac Caglianone!? (Episode 1284)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘Memorial Day’ as in the holiday as in MLB as in standing as in playoffs. What? Well, most people think that what the standings look like now will be the standings when the season ends. (5:15) Shohei Ohtani has taken to the mound for the first time in over 600 days. He threw live BP before the Mets game on Sunday at Citi Field and he’s starting to look good. (14:48) Tarik Skubal might just do it again. He is a full blown ace and showed it. (20:30) When will the Royals call up Jac Caglianone? He is crushing it in the minor leagues right now. Power bat. Record-setting. And the Royals could definitely use him! (33:10) Review: The Last of Us Season 2. (36:20) Caitlin Clark is hurt and this is big business. Uh oh. (44:10) NPPOD. Let’s talk about the playoffs. Knicks have life for now. Timberwolves had life. And now the Hurricanes have some life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.4	Memorial Day.
0:47.8	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:51.7	It is Tuesday, May 27th, 2025.
0:59.9	Memorial Day is the day that a baseball executive looks forward to with eager anticipation and abject fear. If your team is going well and you get to Memorial Day, you have the
1:08.5	wind beneath your wings.
1:11.7	You believe that you can carry it through the dog days of summer
1:15.5	into the stretch run of September, and you are good to go.
1:19.9	You're in first place on Memorial Day.
1:22.5	The odds are, over time it's been proven,
1:25.6	you're going to be in first place when the season ends.
1:29.8	If you're not in first place, but you're supposed to be good and you're hanging in there,
1:35.2	you say to yourself, all right, we survived until Memorial Day.
1:39.0	Now we get going.
1:41.3	The Braves were able to recover from 0 and 7.
1:43.7	They're two games under eight and a half back in the NAL East,
1:46.7	and they are saying, we can catch the Mets in Philly.
1:50.0	We've got this.
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