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NPDS - Trump threatens Commanders stadium deal over name change! WNBA players take a stand at All-Star weekend. Will it work? (Episode 1318 Hour 2)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has taken aim a the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians. He wants the name changed back. He has threatened the Commanders stadium deal. This is a big deal. (16:00) The WNBA All-Star Game was this weekend. Did you watch? The players wore shirts before the game calling out the league. The CBA negotiations are ongoing and that are contentious. (28:00) Dee Strange-Gordon went viral for his comments on the 2015 season. He said a player, alluding to Bryce Harper, called him and told him not to win the batting title. What!? (36:30) We have the numbers on some first round picks in the MLB Draft. The Nationals are giving Eli Willits nearly $3 million under slot. Why is that? (46:00) Scottie Scheffler wins again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.8

entrepreneurs like you. I'm going to Welcome back to nothing personal on Monday, July 21st, 2025. We got another hour for you. Plenty to cover.

1:13.8

We spend a lot of time trying to avoid being told what to do.

1:19.5

Whether we're inside CBS, we're inside Metal Arc, whether I was working at Morgan, wherever I was.

1:25.8

I never loved to be told what to do,

1:28.5

even though sometimes the writing would be on the wall.

1:32.8

Right now with Donald Trump as president,

1:35.4

I think it's clear what law firms are doing,

1:38.4

what companies are doing.

1:40.4

You are trying as hard as you can to not be a target.

1:46.2

Sometimes the way to avoid being a target is that you surrender prior to any attack.

1:54.0

Pre-negotiated surrender, I like to call it.

1:56.4

It's a good concept.

1:58.3

It basically allows you to avoid any sort of the possibility of an outcome that you can't

2:07.8

control. The thing that you want to not have happen is you wake up in the morning and you go on

2:14.0

Twitter, X, blue sky, whatever you go on, true social, doesn't matter.

2:19.7

And you see that Donald Trump has tweeted about you and your name.

2:25.5

Josh Harris, the owner of the Washington commanders, he wakes up and he says, uh-oh.

2:32.2

Trump says that he wants the name change back to the Washington Redskins.

2:39.4

Of course, he also mentioned the Cleveland Guardians, wants them back to be the Cleveland Indians.

2:44.4

He impugns the owners of the guardians and his friend Josh Harris,

2:54.7

basically saying, listen,

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