NPDS - Scary incident at Pirates game; The Good, The Bad, and The Other from MLB in April! Bill Belichick Saga gets even more bizarre! (Episode 1267)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We start things off today with what happened at PNC ballpark yesterday in Pittsburgh. A fan fell from the right field wall onto to the field. It was an ugly scene. The fan is reportedly in critical condition. Just a nightmare scenario. Today’s word of the day is ‘First A’ as in the first A of the baseball season is over with as in April ball is done as in the good as in the bad as in the other. We start with the GOOD of April… it’s Aaron Judge. That’s it. He’s on a different planet! (12:00) Here’s what was bad through April… the Rockies. (14:00) Remember torpedo bats? Remember the Rays? (16:40) What in the world is going on with Bill Belichick? (32:45) Review: Sideways. (37:50) NPPOD. Let’s talk about the Lakers. Not great! (46:45) The Falcons were fined big money for the Jax Ulbrich incident. DC Jeff Ulbrich was also fined big money. Woof. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last night at PNC Park during the Pirates Cubs game, during the game, after Andrew McCutcheon hit a double a fan
0:22.8	fell out of the right field stands there is video all over we're not showing it it is graphic you can find
0:30.0	it if you want to but a fan fell down a 21 foot wall and is in in critical position condition at a hospital.
0:40.6	And I wanted to point out a few things that have been mentioned to me since this happened,
0:49.3	misunderstanding a couple of issues.
0:51.5	Number one, when you build the ballpark, you do it according to safety standards.
0:59.4	Railings are a certain height. There is the pitch of the prefabricated concrete when people think
1:07.0	you're in the upper deck and it's very steep and you get concerned about how steep it is.
1:11.6	It's all done according to code, the length between the stairs.
1:16.7	There is something you can't legislate against.
1:19.1	You can't legislate against accidents happening or if this person we don't know if this gentleman fell over, whether he was drinking, not drinking,
1:28.7	whether he jumped, didn't jump.
1:30.1	I'm not going to speculate.
1:31.9	But people have contacted and said, are you going to raise the railings?
1:36.3	Are the pirates liable?
1:39.8	What's the litigation side of this?
1:42.8	It's a human story. And there is someone with a family,
1:45.7	there is someone who you should be praying for. It's my second worst nightmare running a
1:51.9	ballpark. The first is obviously an attack on the ballpark. A second is a fan having an accident
2:00.1	and falling onto the field. We have signs. We have people who are
2:04.6	supposed to be looking out for people. You don't hear about this happening much. Maybe a couple of
2:11.7	times you've heard of people falling off an escalator in Pittsburgh or falling out the back of the
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