NPDS - Sonny Gray traded to the Red Sox! MLB Pre-Arb bonus pool! Mat Ishbia sued by his partners!? (Episode 1385 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We'll be back on Monday! Have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving! Today’s word of the day is ‘depth’ as in trade as in rotation as in Boston Red Sox as in Sonny Gray as in St. Louis Cardinals as in Chaim Bloom. We have a big league trade. The Red Sox have traded for starter Sonny Gray and big money was exchanged. The Red Sox still need more says Craig Breslow. The Cardinals are rebuilding. (11:00) The $50 million pre-arbitration bonus pool payouts were released and some young players got paid. Paul Skenes and his NL Cy Young season set a record for the money he got. Let’s break down who got paid, and how it all works. (20:00) Suns owner Mat Ishbia is being sued by his minority partners. I know all about this! It happened to me! (29:30) Review: Stranger Than Fiction. (33:00) NPPOD. (45:30) The Buffalo Bills stadium is almost done. And the PSL deal is what we need to talk about. Almost 90% of the stadium is season tickets. What? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The depth depth that's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Wednesday, November 26th,
0:43.4	2025. And if you are listening to me right now as you go through TSA, biggest travel day of the year,
0:52.2	day before Thanksgiving, if I'm in your car, thank you.
0:56.5	If you're watching me on Draft Kings Network, hell yeah.
0:59.6	Or you're live on YouTube, nothing personal with David Samson.
1:03.0	Subscribe, enjoy.
1:05.8	Depth.
1:06.8	We're all out of our depth, aren't we, at the end of the day?
1:10.1	We're all looking for depth, meaning I'm going to use it in the sports way.
1:16.0	Because a big trade happens in baseball.
1:18.8	Well, it's not a big trade.
1:20.0	But a trade that happens around Thanksgiving gets exciting.
1:24.3	The hot stove is simmering, baby.
1:26.8	The Boston Red Sox acquired a pitcher.
1:29.9	That's only a quarter of the story.
1:32.9	Sonny Gray, you know his name.
1:35.2	He's decent.
1:36.1	He's fine.
1:37.1	Middle of the rotation guy.
1:39.2	A depth piece.
1:40.5	Don't believe any of the Boston Red Sox people.
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