NPDS - Sorry Minnesota, the Twins are NOT for sale! The Trail Blazers are though! FREE BURGERS IN MILWAUKEE! (Episode 1336 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘passion’ as in the Minnesota Twins as in MLB as in baseball as in played. That’s how Twins fans feel today. The Pohlad family is no longer selling the team. What happened? Why? (12:30) The Portland Trail Blazers have sold. The team was for sale when Paul Allen died back in 2018. It’ll be bought for $4.25 billion to the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes. Will the team move? (23:00) The Dallas Cowboys are the most expensive team in the world. Valued over $12 billion! Let’s take a look at team valuations from each of the major sports in the United States. (33:00) Review: Interstellar. (36:00) NPPOD. (39:00) The Milwaukee Brewers have won 12-straight. That means the city of Milwaukee will be getting free burgers! (46:30) The Dodgers got swept by the Angels. The Dodgers are now behind the Padres in the NL West. Oh boy. (49:30) The Texas Rangers need to get it going. Fast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Passion. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Thursday, August 14th, 2025.
0:41.6	Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Passion,
0:48.2	that is a great adjective. It's what you want your fan base to feel. It's what you want to feel about your partner. It's what you want to feel about your partner.
0:55.7	It's what you want to feel about your life.
0:57.9	Passion.
0:58.6	Who's got it?
0:59.7	Well, the Polad family does.
1:01.6	They are the owners of the Minnesota Twins.
1:03.9	And they released a letter yesterday.
1:06.4	And it was a juicy, awesome letter.
1:10.3	And passion was the word that they wanted to make sure that you took from it.
1:15.3	Though I didn't take that one, I took many other words from it, like detailed and robust.
1:23.9	Can you imagine that there was a detailed and robust process and that at the end the team is not going to be sold?
1:30.5	The family will remain the principal owner of the Minnesota Twins and people in Minnesota are despondent beyond repair.
1:38.0	I'm not sure why. The Polads have owned the team since 91.
1:41.7	You've had a World Series championship.
1:45.0	Oh, you were contract.
1:46.7	No, you weren't contracted.
1:48.5	Wait.
1:49.9	Oh, yeah.
1:52.4	I get it.
1:53.9	You thought that after the fire sale, it took place,
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