NPDS - New England Patriots legal troubles; Diggs end in Dallas; MLB UPDATES: Imai to Houston, Rendon to the bank! (Episode 1397 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘new beginnings’ as in New Year as in 2026 as in the New England Patriots. What is going on there? Stefon Diggs could be in big trouble. Christian Barmore could be in big trouble. And head coach Mike Vrabel just wants to focus on football. (12:00) The Dallas Cowboys released Trevon Diggs. The reports say it was about Diggs not wanting to travel home with the team during Christmas break. Hmm. Is that the whole story? Now he’s in Green Bay. (21:20) Tatsuya Imai is headed to the Houston Astros. One of the best free agents on the market is coming from Japan. But, what happened to the giant multi-year deals Imai and Murakami were supposed to get? (30:50) Anthony Rendon’s time with the Los Angeles Angels is over. That’s it. Rendon agreed to a settlement with the Angels that will see his full salary for the season differed. (36:40) Review: Pluribus. (41:00) NPPOD. (48:30) Let’s end with some ratings talk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The New Beginning.
0:39.7	That's the nothing personal word of the day for the first show of
0:43.7	2006.
0:45.2	It is Friday, January 2nd, 20206.
0:50.1	New beginning.
0:52.2	Why?
0:53.4	Why?
0:54.6	Why choose January 2nd?
0:57.2	Gym memberships, diets, workouts, relationships, family, friends, discipline, love.
1:07.6	Why? Why today?
1:09.7	Why yesterday?
1:10.6	Why not any day? It's a very artificial
1:13.7	deadline, in my opinion, that adds an unbelievable amount of anxiety and stress
1:20.1	when we all have to say it's a new beginning because it's a new year. I just think that's a
1:25.5	new excuse. Why not make October 31st the day?
1:30.1	I mean, other than Coca's birthday, why not make it that day is your new beginning?
1:34.8	But here we are.
1:36.7	So it is a new beginning.
1:39.2	And yet, the stories that we have for you today, it been a couple days hope everyone had a good new
1:45.9	year's eve they seem similar to me the new england patriots are dealing with an issue with
1:55.8	their players we talk about distractions a lot on nothing personal that is part of every company, every organization, every team.
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