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NPDS - Why haven't Snell, Bellinger, Montgomery, or Chapman signed yet!?; Athletics set to meet with Oakland officials over stadium lease! (Episode 990)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘pfp’ as in pitchers fielding practice as in spring training as in baseball is slowly coming back as in free agents. What do I mean? Why hasn’t last year’s Cy Young Award winner been signed? How about the best bat on the Cubs? How about a World Series winning pitcher? How about a Gold Glove third baseman? (15:35) The Athletics are meeting with Oakland for a lease extension. Is this step 1 of a new deal? Is this step 1 of the Athletics coming back to Oakland? (27:50) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me a question about Jen Pawol getting to umpire Spring Training games. Is the gender barrier breaking in baseball? (34:35) Review: Lost. (40:10) NPPOD. The Warriors tried to trade for LeBron James! What? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here you go.

0:03.0

go.

0:04.0

go. PFP. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the Day. It is Valentine's Day.

0:21.2

February 14, 2024, lean over,

0:25.4

nudge the person you love, pick up the phone,

0:28.2

just don't text, unless that's your thing,

0:31.7

and it shouldn't be.

0:33.0

PFP stands for pitchers fielding practice.

0:37.0

Those are the drills that happen in spring training on day one.

0:41.0

We've told you that today is the day that... on day

0:44.2

is the day that teams report you get your physical.

0:47.0

There's all these different stations.

0:48.8

The players come.

0:49.8

They're in their flip-flops or slides and socks, no unies. No one is allowed officially on the field

0:59.6

prior to passing a physical. But of course, players are on the field before a physical happens, but they shouldn't be, but they are.

1:08.0

So you have different stations, you have to pee in a cup, then you see the doctor or the orthopod, get your eyes, teeth, everything's checked,

1:16.5

your hearing, you get an EKG, you get your blood taken out.

1:23.0

Then the doctor, through the trainer,

1:27.4

gets to the GM, comes up to the office at Roger Dean

1:30.9

or wherever your spring training facility is and says all right everyone's done

1:35.2

we're good to go except for blank so each year there's one guy usually an invite

1:41.4

it's not one of your main players but it's a

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