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NPDS - Oakland Athletics Relocation: MLB owners unanimously vote in favor of relocation - What does it all mean? What will happen next? (Episode 935)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

IF YOU WANNA TALK TO SAMSON: davidsamsonpodcast.com Today’s word of the day is ‘relocation frenzy’ as in relocation as in MLB as in Oakland as in Las Vegas as in John Fisher as in Rob Manfred. The vote happened. It was approved. What happens to the Athletics now? (31:45) Review: She Came to Me (34:23) MLB Awards Recap. (40:40) Jim Harbaugh has accepted his 3-game ban. Why? Why did Michigan give up its legal battle vs the Big Ten? (43:35) Formula 1 in Vegas has been a disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

0:03.0

go. go. Relocation frenzy. That's the nothing personal phrase of the day. It is Friday

0:21.9

November 17th

0:23.2

2023 yesterday I said it was

0:26.6

November 16th 2024 no idea why that happened

0:30.2

thank you for that correction relocation Relocation, frenzy and Major League Baseball.

0:35.0

Anytime a team moves, it's a frenzy.

0:37.0

We've seen a bunch of football teams move,

0:39.0

we've seen basketball teams move.

0:40.0

We haven't seen a baseball team move since 2005 when my former team, the Expos, became the Washington

0:47.1

Nationals. And then the discussion started over who's got the franchise records. Is the senders or is it the expos.

0:56.0

Yesterday I understand the emotion but I want to cut through it and I want to get right to what is going on.

1:07.0

I'm not taking the victory lap over what I told you was going to happen

1:12.0

because it happened exactly that way.

1:15.2

So those who had listened to previous shows, I assume were not as emotional as those who were new to nothing personal.

1:22.3

So welcome to nothing personal,

1:24.2

where we tell you what's going to happen.

1:26.6

Where we tell you the vote is going to be 30 to zero

1:29.6

for the A's to move to Vegas. where we tell you that every single media outlet from the

1:36.9

sphere to the local news in Dubuque will say in their crawl, major league baseball owners allow relocation of Oakland A's to Las Vegas. Relocation of A's done. Here come the Las Vegas A's. Then we told you

2:00.9

after there's going to be Rob Manford meeting the media in his press conference that happens after owners meetings and he's going to have to do the two step.

2:11.0

The two step is a dance. The dance is how much can we give to the media without

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