NPDS - MLB teams giving massive extensions to young players! Will it work for the Padres and Red Sox!? (Episode 1249)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘certainty’ as in tariffs as in money as in salary as in players as in Jackson Merrill as in Kristian Campbell as in many others. (7:30) The Padres gave Jackson Merrill a massive deal. They didn’t need to! They’ve been trying to shed payroll and now they are adding and now they have a core locked through 2033! Can they sustain that payroll? (17:20) The Red Sox gave Kristian Campbell a longterm deal. 5 games into his big league career. They did the same thing last year! (24:00) The Arizona Diamondbacks did something that I’m not sure why they did it. Ketel Marte got another extension. He was under contract for 2 more years and the team extended him! (34:15) Review: The Princess Bride. (38:40) Shohei Ohtani bobblehead night ended with a bang! Walk off homer! Let’s talk bobbles! (43:15) Timberwolves sale is now complete. Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore are now the owners. Just waiting on a vote. $1.5 billion and lawyers later, we have a deal. (50:00) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Certainty. That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:18.5	It is Thursday, 432325. April 3rd, 2025.
0:25.2	Certainty. Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
0:32.9	Certainty is a concept that every business person understands, every sports executive craves,
0:40.6	and every individual wonders about. Certainty in a relationship, business, or personal. Certainty
0:49.8	in Tuesday following Monday, in Friday following Thursday,
0:54.3	certainty in the price and the cost of goods sold in your company.
0:59.6	You are waking up this morning and joining us
1:02.3	as you are going to wait for the market to open this morning,
1:06.6	the stock market.
1:08.5	You watched yesterday as huge tariffs were announced on the White House lawn.
1:16.5	And then you started reading articles about companies trying to deal with the uncertainty
1:22.2	of what the tariffs mean.
1:24.1	You've seen individuals try to understand what will groceries cost,
1:29.2	what will sneakers cost? My sneakers are made in Vietnam, and now there's going to be tariffs
1:35.2	up to 90%. Therefore, the price of my sneakers, which has already gone up 25%, is going to go up even
1:42.0	more.
1:52.9	Uncertainty causes a behavior that is different than that which exists during certainty.
1:58.8	It doesn't matter if you're putting together a sports team or you're putting together a home budget, or you're thinking about relationships
2:01.6	between countries. What is it that diplomacy is aimed to achieve? In many ways, certainty.
2:13.9	There isn't much we can do when we run a baseball team or a basketball team or a football team.
2:20.2	We can't truly impact global uncertainty.
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