NPDS - Torpedo bats have taken over MLB: will they get banned!?; Scherzer hurt, Devers can't hit! (Episode 1246)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’damn’ as in Damn the Torpedos are is Yankees as in baseball as in new bats. What do you think about these new bats? Aaron Judge doesn’t use them. A bunch of other Yankees who homered did. Is MLB going to get rid of these? (18:20) Max Scherzer is hurt. Max Scherzer told us he was going to get hurt. (24:40) Rafael Devers has been historically bad to start the season. Strike outs everywhere. Can’t hit. Can’t make contact. (34:21) Review: Reacher Season 3. (36:00) Let’s talk about what MLB did about Opening Day. They gave customers who missed out due to some tech issues a discount on merch. (42:40) NPPOD. (45:00) The Final Four on the men’s side is set. It’s all top seeds. (48:00) The Memphis Grizzlies fired its head coach with 10 games left. A 4/5 seed in the NBA. Why now? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Here you go.
0:33.6	Here you go.
0:36.4	You go. Thank you. Damn.
0:46.8	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:48.9	It is Monday, the final day of March, March 31st, 2025.
0:59.7	Damn. As in, damn the torpedoes. You knew we'd start talking about torpedo bats. MLB had its first weekend. We've got 26 to go. Torpedoes.
1:10.1	Damn.
1:11.6	I want to just give you a one-minute lesson because people keep getting this wrong.
1:17.7	Not the fact that it's not against the rules to have a torpedo bat because it's not.
1:22.8	Not the fact that no one's using them except the Yankees.
1:26.3	That's not the fact.
1:29.0	People don't know the provenance of the expression, damn the torpedoes. Back in 1864, there was a colonel, David
1:36.5	Farragut. He was with the union and they were storming one last area called Mobile Bay. And it was
1:43.2	against the Confederacy.
1:44.7	And they were getting ready, except there were tons of minds and tons of problems.
1:50.9	And the general said, damn the torpedoes, go forward.
1:58.3	It's a great expression, isn't it?
2:00.2	Don't you ever say that when you're going into something?
2:02.5	You don't know what the result is going to be, but you do it because it's right, because it increases
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