NPDS - Spring Pain-ing: Mets already down TWO starting pitchers! Tony Clark responds to Rob Manfred's lockout comments! (Episode 1222)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’Spring Pain-ing’ as in Spring Training as in pain as in injuries as in the Mets as in the Yankees as in every team. This is the time of year. Players show up. Players get hurt. Teams scramble. Lovely! (10:00) Giancarlo Stanton is dealing with a double elbow problem. WOOF! But on the bright side they are now allowing beards! Yay! (22:10) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Tony Clark’s comments to Rob Manfred about a lockout in baseball. Hmmmmm. (36:50) Review: Nickel Boys. (38:30) Is it the end of the Tush Push? The talk is back. The Packers want it gone. The Eagles run it to great success. (44:40) NPPOD. (45:45) The Sixers are falling apart again. Joel Embiid might be done. His knees are cooked. The Sixers keep losing. The Big 3 didn’t work. (50:00) Suns owner Mat Ishbia’s brother, Justin, has moved on from the Minnesota Twins. Uh oh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.6	Here you go.
0:04.4	It is
0:16.4	the nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.9	It is Tuesday, 225-25. February 25th,
0:25.1	2025, spring painting. I got to give all credits of coca for today's word of the day.
0:31.1	You gotta love alliterations. The New York Mets, they're just the most recent team. They're the team in the news because their
0:40.4	payroll is over $300 million, along with the Dodgers, and they're dealing with early spring
0:46.8	training injuries. It's not just that Frankie Montess or Shawman are out. That's not what I want to focus on.
0:56.9	It is true that they're out. They got obliques. They got lat strains. They're going to miss weeks.
1:02.4	They're going to miss months. The depth is being tested. You've got players telling you,
1:08.8	oh, I was in good shape. And then this just happened.
1:11.9	That's what Manaya said.
1:13.9	Remember, Manai got three years, $75 million.
1:17.2	Montas got two years, $34 million.
1:19.4	I don't want to focus on that.
1:21.6	I want to focus on what you do as a front office when you get an FI.
1:34.0	An FI is a February injury. You've got all of the MIs,
1:38.6	we would call them. You get March, April, March injuries, April, May, June, July, August. Different strategy. The FI is when you get spring training and either someone fails your physical, or the physical you find out that, oh, they've got a tweaked hamstring, they've got a situation with their elbow or shoulder.
1:52.6	And FI is when a position player gets hurt during any of the pre-spring training games, early spring training games when pictures are pitching 1.0,
2:04.2	sometimes 2.0 innings.
2:06.5	Position players are getting one or two at bats and then are taken out of the game.
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