NPDS - Schwarber back with Phillies! Edwin Diaz goes to the Dodgers!? What did Scott Boras say this time!? (Episode 1389 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘unattainable’ as in Kyle Schwarber as in the Pirates as in the Orioles as in the Phillies. Schwarber is back with Philly on a five-year deal. He’s getting $30 million a year as a 32-year old DH. Wow. Let me explain why this happened and why Philly is mad at the Pirates. (16:00) Edwin Diaz is leaving the Mets for the Dodgers. The Dodgers get stronger. The Mets will now have Devin Williams. Did David Stearns get played? (31:00) Let’s talk about Scott Boras… again. (39:30) Review: This Too Shall Pass. (43:10) Philip Rivers is back! 44-year old QB in the NFL!? The Colts are doing it. (48:30) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Unattainable.
0:21.6	Unattainable. Unattainable. Unattainable.
0:40.0	Unattainable.
0:42.3	Unattainable.
0:43.5	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:45.8	It is Wednesday, December 10th, 2025.
0:51.3	Unattainable is a word that bothers me greatly. It's the first word of the day in 1,389 shows
1:00.3	that gives me the shivers the concept of something or someone being unattainable does that mean
1:09.4	you don't try does it mean that what you're trying to do is
1:13.7	above your pay grade or something completely out of your control? If that's the case,
1:20.7	why are you spending time getting involved at all, even if you have no choice in your mind. Un attainable. Health, life, players,
1:36.7	happiness. Happiness can never be known as unattainable. Is there any scenario under which
1:43.2	there's not something you can do,
1:45.3	a thing that you can say, a way to change the framing of your mind
1:50.4	to attain happiness?
1:54.6	Right now in Orlando, the winter meetings are happening
1:57.4	in a Major League Baseball.
1:59.6	And we had a news flash, and we had the news flash four months ago.
2:04.9	Kyle Schwarber was unattainable for any team in baseball except the Philadelphia Phillies.
2:14.5	There was no way that Dave Dombrowski and John Middleton,
2:19.6	he of the I will spend stupid money to win,
2:23.3	and by the way, they haven't won.
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