NPDS - Ohtani, Betts, and Dodgers ready to be MLB Villains; Messi and Inter Miami's booed out of Hong Kong (Episode 983)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘29’ as in 30 MLB teams as in 29 other teams as in the Los Angels Dodgers as in Shohei Ohtani as in Mookie Betts as in Freddie Freeman as in Gavin Lux. The Dodgers are ready to be villains. They don’t care if you’re upset with them for spending a BILLION. (16:15) Theo Epstein is back in baseball on the ownership side. We told you it would happen. He’s now a minority owner of the Red Sox and part of Fenway Sports Group. (27:50) Review: Slow Horses. (32:30) The Jacksonville Jaguars are out $22 million because of a former employee. He spent about $20 million of it gambling! And now the Jaguars want that money back from Fanduel. Good luck! (43:10) The Hong Kong Messi Mess. That’s what happened with Inter Miami. 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.
0:04.0	go. 29. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the Day. It is Monday, February 5th,
0:21.2	2004, and 29 is my word of the day, as in 29 other teams could have done it.
0:31.1	It's only February 5th, but it's never too early to have a potential quote of the year,
0:37.0	which is a list that we don't do at the end of the year,
0:40.0	which I think we're going to start doing in 2024.
0:43.0	Why wouldn't we?
0:44.0	So many great statements, we could do top five press conferences,
0:48.0	top five statements, top five quotes,
0:52.0	Gavin Lux of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and several other Dodgers
0:57.6	started talking yesterday about Shohay Otani, about the season,
1:02.1	because they're the first team to report to spring
1:05.0	training because the Dodgers and the Padres are starting their season on
1:09.0	March 20th in South Korea.
1:12.8	And so the rule is when you open a season internationally
1:17.2	and it's before regular opening day,
1:19.6	you get to slash half-to report to spring training early.
1:24.0	By the way that's one of the expenses that gets covered by Major League Baseball.
1:29.0	When a contract happens between a team and baseball for a team to play internationally.
1:36.2	One of the refunds you get, so if it's a home game, generally, and I haven't read this, but Dodgers,
1:41.9	Padres are playing two games. The general rule is that each
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