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NPDS - Saints bring in Justin Tucker for tryout; Chauncey Billups bond hearing; Updates on Ohtani and the next Japanese ace (Episode 1384 Hour 2)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Justin Tucker is getting a tryout with the New Orleans Saints. Give me a break. What is that team doing? And is Kellen Moore serious? (14:30) Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty to his role in a Mafia poker scheme. He was released on a $5 million bond. He is facing decades behind bars for his alleged role in the scheme. (22:00) Shohei Ohtani is back in the World Baseball Classic. He announced on Monday that he will return. The MVP from the last tournament is back with the reigning champions of Team Japan. And let’s talk about Tatsuya Imai. The latest Japanese ace that was posted. He wants nothing to do with the Dodgers. He wants to take down the Dodgers. (33:15) The Colorado Rockies have a new manager. It’s the interim Warren Schaeffer. (37:00) James Cameron went off on Netflix. He says Netflix movies should not be up for Oscars. Oh. (47:00) Mike Kafka has fired the Giants DC. A day after saying he didn’t think he’d do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The

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The Welcome back to Nothing Personal.

0:48.8

It is quite exciting for me personally when I get to talk about different things that happen in the world of sports.

0:53.7

And when I get to follow up, one of the things that differentiates nothing personal, and I want to thank the audience.

0:55.6

I want to thank you all for being with us, for sticking with us. It's been a tough couple of months.

1:01.2

There's no question. It's been, we haven't been able to do shows every day, but I will say this.

1:08.2

The support from you all to me and to my family has been nothing short of it's i would call it a

1:16.4

miracle except i see it every day and i hate to keep asking for as many miracles as i'm

1:21.5

currently asking for so i will just again remind you i see it i read when you reach out at David Sampson podcast.com or on

1:31.0

Twitter at David P. Samson. When you DM, I may not be able to respond because I can't because

1:36.6

there's so many, but it warms both my heart and my family's heart. So thank you. One of the

1:43.2

reasons I'd like to believe that we've been around

1:45.4

for six years and we've been around for so many episodes is that we're going to be accountable.

1:52.9

We're going to revisit things we talk about. We're an open book on David Sampsonpodcast.com.

1:59.0

You can see everything we do, every pick of the day, every

2:02.5

wait to see.

2:03.4

You see an actual living document that COCA uses every day that you'd think would be private.

2:10.5

But the reason why we want to make it public is that's the difference we wanted to make.

2:15.6

When I talk to you about Justin Tucker, when I talk to you about

2:21.4

Gail Benson, I'm not doing it as a hot take. I'm doing it because it's what I believe to be true

2:29.8

and then I want you to make your decision. I don't want you to think that I am on the right or I am on the left

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or I am pro this or anti that.

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