NPDS - Pete Alonso to the Orioles!? Phillies have decisions to make! Travis Kelce can see the end is near!! (Episode 1390 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘birds’ as in Orioles as in Mets as in Pete Alonso. Can you believe it? Pete Alonso is leaving the Mets for a 5-year, $155 million deal to join Baltimore. The Orioles have a great core put together. The Mets have now lost out on two fan favorites in two days! (16:30) What is going on with the Phillies? They brought back Kyle Schwarber, but what about the rest of the team? That’s where things get interesting. (26:00) YouTube TV has a new plan. The skinny bundle! It is here, and it is staying. (32:30) Review: Begin Again. (37:30) NPPOD. (41:30) The Chiefs are done. If you listen to Travis Kelce speak, he can see it, we can see it. (48:00) FIFA is corrupt. We know this. And they keep flaunting exactly how corrupt they are right in our faces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Birds. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Thursday, December 11th,
0:43.3	2025. Birds, Orioles. When you've got money in your pocket and you're out there negotiating
0:53.3	during an off season, The winter meetings are on.
0:55.9	You're feeling all excited. The owner told you let's sign one of the premium free agents.
1:03.1	Let's get a 33-year-old designated hitter. Let's call them up. Let's offer him five years,
1:09.3	$150 million. Let's take him from the Phillies.
1:12.1	We're going to get Kyle Schwarber, and we're going to put him in the lineup.
1:16.1	He's going to lead our young players.
1:19.1	So good in the clubhouse, number one personality guy.
1:23.5	Slot him in in the middle of the lineup.
1:25.4	Yeah, he'll be 37 by the end, but this is going to be a
1:29.5	difference maker. Oh, man, he went back to the Phillies for the same five years, 150? All right,
1:40.3	all right. Let's sign Pete Alonzo. Do you think it works that way? Do you think that a team
1:48.2	pivots that quickly? Remember last year what the Yankees did when Juan Soto signed with the Mets
1:57.0	and they announced the Max Fried deal, the Paul Goldschmidt trade and the Devin
2:03.0	Williams deal in a matter of, I'm going to say it was seconds, but let's pretend it was
2:08.1	days.
2:11.9	The Orioles weren't even trying to fool you.
2:16.4	And Scott Boris and Pete Alonzo don't care.
2:21.2	They had one goal.
2:24.2	Do not allow what happened last year to happen again.
2:30.1	So Scott Boris has his clients and he has unrealistic expectations for them at all times.
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