NPDS - MLB radical realignment through expansion!? Let me explain what Rob Manfred was saying! (Episode 1338 Hour 2)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Rob Manfred spoke last night during the Little League Classic about expansion and geographical realignment. This has been talked about for over a decade! Let’s explain what this all means and what could happen. (19:00) NPPOD. (22:00) What is going on with the Browns QB battle? Is it Shedeur? Is it Gabriel? Is it Flacco? (29:15) This isn’t the biggest story for the Browns executives. They have run into a slight stadium problem. (35:00) Michigan’s punishment has been released by the NCAA. It could cost the university around $30 million in total. Wow. (45:00) The NBA wants to do away with prop bets as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Welcome back to nothing personal. It is our two of the first day of the third week of August.
0:43.2	I totally made that up.
0:44.6	It's August 18th.
0:46.8	What were you doing last night, Coca?
0:49.4	What a weekend?
0:50.9	What just every weekend's so great.
0:53.3	So much to do.
0:56.1	Beautiful weather. If it was beautiful where you are, if it wasn't, then what a weekend to watch some sports. We were watching the
1:02.2	Little League game. Well, it wasn't a Little League game. It was the big league game because it was our
1:05.9	pick of the day between the Mariners and the Mets. That's where the baseball, remember we talk about baseball went to the, you know, Rick Wood.
1:14.6	They went to Field of Dreams.
1:16.1	They went to Bristol Speedway.
1:18.0	And then they go to the Little League World Series and they play a game in front of like
1:21.4	2,300 people.
1:22.7	It's this amazingly cool Little League thing where you've got catching gear like cal raleigh's catching gear
1:28.2	had pictures of all his teammates as little leaguers just fun stuff and you've got kids doing
1:33.5	stuff kids were like being the pa announcer sometimes they were doing interviews it was awesome
1:42.3	why does baseball do it?
1:44.8	I think that's clear.
1:46.2	We're trying to, we, dang it, coca, 4-8-6-9.
1:51.5	Why does baseball do things like the Little League classic?
1:54.7	They do it for a very simple reason,
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