NPDS - Nationals fire GM AND Manager! Pirates CANNOT get Paul Skenes wins! MLB All-Star snubs!? (Episode 1308 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/auction-lunch-with-david-samson-of-nothing-personal-3220102 Today’s word of the day is ‘unceremonious’ as in Mike Rizzo as in Dave MArtinerz as in the Washington Nationals as in fired. That’s right, same day as two Nationals make the All-Star team, the owner fires the GM and manager. Why now? Well, the team has been bad bad bad, but the timing is just odd. (18:00) Paul Skenes can’t get a win. 42 career starts and 17 No Decisions. And it’s not like he’s been bad! He’s been an ACE! (23:00) How should you react during a surprise season? With the MLB trade deadline fast approaching we take a look at three teams: Marlins, Orioles, Braves. How should they each respond? (35:20) Review: Echo Valley. (37:40) MLB All-Star rosters are close to complete. Clayton Kershaw got in as a Legend pick. Nice. Who were the biggest snubs? (48:20) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Pamela Anderson.
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0:21.4	body confidence-building exercises, go to Dove.com forward slash Y2K. That's Y2K spelled W-H-Y2K. Thank you. I'm going to Unceremonious.
1:07.4	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
1:09.8	It is Monday.
1:17.5	7725 unceremonious is what happened to the general manager,
1:19.1	President of Baseball Operations.
1:20.8	Mike Rizzo, long time.
1:22.9	Been there since 2007.
1:24.1	Canned.
1:33.7	Dave Martinez, World Series winning manager. Gone. A twofer. Totally unceremonious.
1:41.2	The day all stars were announced, including two of the Nationals players who the Nationals received in the trade with the Padres for Juan Soto.
1:46.1	McKenzie Gore, you are an all-star.
1:51.6	Let me give you the process here.
1:54.1	Because I know the Lerner family, and you know that Ted Lerner, I was extremely close to.
2:02.0	He was the patriarch of the Lerner family.
2:05.8	He bought the nationals from Major League Baseball.
2:11.1	They had Mike Rizzo, and they had a team that was run extremely responsibly.
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