NPDS - Rays let deadline pass in St. Pete: is relocation happening?; Micah Parsons v. Jerry Jones heats up! Roki Sasaki is having a hard time (Episode 1248)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘diligently’ as in Rays as in St. Pete as in pursue as in the Trop as in relocation? What is happening with the Tampa Bay Rays? Right now the team is playing at the Yankees Spring Training facility. It’s a one year deal. And then what? Well a major deadline just passed and the Rays let it pass. (11:40) Randy Levine of the Yankees had a statement that is hard to believe. It wasn’t a normal statement. It was a Thank You letter to politicians. (18:08) Jerry Jones has found himself in another situation due to no one other than Jerry Jones. Micah Parsons wants a new deal. Jerry Jones went out of his way to disrespect Parsons agent. Fun! (32:24) Review: Adult Best Friends. (37:40) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Roki Sasaki and his body language after struggling through 2 starts. Hmm. (46:00) NPPOD. (49:00) The St. Louis Cardinals continue to head in the wrong direction. The team underperformed, but the fans showed up. Now the team is just bad, and the fans aren’t showing up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Here you go.
0:33.6	Here you go.
0:45.4	You go. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, April 2, 2025,
0:52.6	diligently, as in diligently pursue. As in what St. Petersburg has to do, what the Tampa
1:01.9	Bay Rays have to do. They have to be diligent. The city has to pursue repairs after Hurricane
1:09.8	Milton. The team has to diligently pursue where to
1:14.4	play after spending one year at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa Bay. Let me give you an update
1:20.3	where we are with the Tampa Bay raise because the season, while it's only five or six games
1:24.1	old, we are months away only from the first draft schedule that should be ready
1:31.6	for the 2026 season. What's needed prior to a schedule is a location where all teams are going to play.
1:41.1	That seems like a very low bar to catapult over. The problem is right now,
1:47.6	there is no place for the Tampa Bay race to play. The Yankees made it very clear to Major League
1:54.0	Baseball as Hal Steinbrenner was smiling at opening day in Tampa at the spring training facility, singing kumbaya, my lord kumbaya,
2:05.2	Rob Manford, Dan Hallam at all, Stu Sternberg, Matt Silverman at all, were always aware it was a
2:13.1	one-year deal. The Yankees do not want the raise playing in their spring training facility come
2:19.0	2006. Therefore, what are the options? One, playing a new stadium in Tampa Bay or St. Petersburg.
2:29.0	What's the problem? Unless we have a 3D printer, it seems very unlikely that there will be a new stadium designed, constructed, and ready to open by next season.
2:40.9	So no need to diligently pursue that.
2:44.4	Two, playing at Tropicana Field.
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