NPDS - Wander Franco found guilty, but still walks free!? NFL suspends Justin Tucker! Guardians/Jays exchange HBP! (Episode 1305 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘unjust’ as in Wander Franco as in the Dominican Republic as in MLB. Wander Franco was found guilty of a heinous crime, but he will see no jail time. Is that justice? The mother of the girl in the case was sentenced to 10 years! (10:30) Former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker has now been suspended for 10 games. Will he ever kick again in the NFL? Should he ever be allowed to? (18:23) The Blue Jays and the Guardians exchanged hit by pitches yesterday between the two best players in the game. Both left hurt. Vlad Guerrero Jr. Jose Ramirez. (32:00) Review: Fight or Flight. (36:20) We have another update to the bombshell report from PTFO. (46:22) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Unjust. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Friday, June 27th, 2025.
0:43.9	Unjust is the word that I would use to describe what happened in the Dominican Republic yesterday
0:48.8	when there was finally an end of the Wander Franco saga that has been discussed on this show and all other
0:57.8	places for years. Wander Franco is the player signed by the Tampa Bay Rays. Fonomenal player,
1:06.8	shortstop, infielder, hitter, power, speed, defense, arm, everything's great.
1:13.8	The raise of all people give them 11 years, $182 million.
1:20.0	This is how baseball is supposed to be.
1:23.0	Lock up your best.
1:25.9	Except they didn't realize when they locked up their best that their best was going to be
1:31.5	locked up.
1:33.5	No sooner could he get his career underway.
1:36.8	Was it discovered that he was involved in a relationship with a minor?
1:42.6	Charges levied against him and the mother of the minor. Trafficking, imprisonment,
1:51.3	sex. 21 years old, Wander Franco, on video, very many different ways with this 14-year-old.
2:00.5	A trial happens in the Dominican Republic,
2:03.1	and I assure you,
2:05.2	the Dominican Republic court system
2:06.9	is not the court system of the United States of America.
2:10.5	Regardless of your political views
2:12.4	or what you view as the judiciary status currently,
2:17.2	which I'm not going to impugn, though, man, it's getting
2:20.6	harder.
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