NPDS - Rob Manfred says NO to robot umps in 2025; DOJ is suing Live Nation - will that change ticket prices?; NCAA agrees to pay players! (Episode 1059)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’owners meetings’ as in Rob Manfred as in MLB as in umpires as in jerseys as in Athletics as in Nike as in Sacramento as in robots as in Ballys. These latest owners meetings were packed with great quotes from the commissioner. (17:20) Let’s talk about Ticketmaster. The Department of Justice has sued Live Nation Entertainment. What happens now? No more crazy fees? (29:05) Review: Survivor 46. (33:10) The Boston Celtics are running away with the Eastern Conference. Big win on Thursday. Pacers are hurt. (38:46) NPPOD. (42:40) The NCAA has agreed to let schools pay players. Welcome to the new world of college athletics. What is going to be the end of this? 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. Owners meetings. That's enough in personal word of the day for Friday, May 24,
0:22.0	as we roll on into Memorial Day weekend.
0:27.2	Could have started with the double overtime victory
0:30.1	by the Oilers, but no.
0:32.8	Could have started with the Pacers not being able to win a game
0:36.9	two against the Celtics for the first time.
0:39.1	Celtics win a game two, but no.
0:41.3	Could have started with what happened in the White Sox Orioles game, but no. could have started with what happened in the White Sox Orioles game, but no, may get to all of those.
0:46.6	I got to start with owners meetings.
0:48.7	It just brings me back, thinking about trudging into different cities four times a year,
0:55.0	surrounded by all the executives, all the owners, everybody in the
1:00.0	Commissioner's office, and eagerly anticipating all the business that was going to get done
1:05.8	during the course of those two days. Now that we do nothing personal every day,
1:10.6	what I really wait for, although I do miss it, of course I do.
1:16.0	Not as much as I, I don't miss it nearly as much as I love being here with you every single
1:20.3	day, live at 8 a.m. except Monday disappointingly. Sadly but now what I get
1:28.3	excited about is when the Commissioner of any sport other than maybe the W MBA after you have
1:36.2	owners meetings the commissioner has to meet the media. It's like an unwritten rule.
1:41.2	It's not in any of the bylaws. It's not in the Constitution.
1:44.8	It's just one of those things that the media has come to expect, where for me, it could just as much
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