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NPDS - Will ESPN and MLB find way to make up? Athletics to begin taking Vegas ticket deposits! Mavericks season has truly crumbled (Episode 1228)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’grasping’ as in ESPN as in MLB as in TV rights as in leaks. What is going on? MLB will have to find a new network for its broadcasts with ESPN opting out. Is ESPN going to find a way to still get games? Did MLB leak the reported offer that ESPN gave them that was a slap in the face? (13:03) It’s time to talk about the Athletics again. Now the team will begin to take deposits for season tickets in Vegas. How fun! Well, where is the stadium? (22:45) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me why teams still get public financing. (34:20) Review: Paradise. (37:50) NPPOD (40:10) The Dallas Mavericks are down bad. No Luka. Everyone hates Nico. Anthony Davis hurt. Increased ticket prices. And now Kyrie Irving is out for the season. (48:00) UNC and Belichick are no longer doing Hard Knocks. Why? The NFL is mad. And his girlfriend is reportedly too involved. Hmm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here you go.

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Here you go.

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That's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.

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Grasping, as in ESPN is grasping for straws.

0:32.6

Majorly baseball and ESPN are heading toward a divorce.

0:36.7

When you head toward a divorce, a lot of things

0:38.9

can happen. You get lawyers. You talk about splitting of assets. You talk about visitation

0:45.7

rights with the kids. You talk about who gets what, when, where, how. Some divorces are

0:52.6

clean, some are dirty. Some take years, some take months, some take days.

0:57.7

The thing about a divorce is that you can never calculate in advance what the actions will be

1:04.7

of the divorce says once the divorce happens. But often, if you're paying attention,

1:13.1

people in the middle of divorce actually telegraph

1:16.9

what their next move is going to be,

1:19.4

who they're going to be with,

1:20.5

what they're going to be doing,

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how they're going to be doing it.

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So many leaks are happening with the MLB ESPN package situation, the divorce situation,

1:31.3

that I felt it was time to get a few things straight.

1:35.5

Number one, there are rumors out there that the flagship ESPN's new DTC service that is being launched with great fanfare

1:49.7

and that Bob Iger, the chairman of Disney, has told you in Jimmy Patero, the president of ESPN,

1:55.6

everyone is telling you this is big. This is a major, major revenue driver. It's a major, major share price driver.

2:07.1

And the question we've asked ourselves on this show is what exactly will be on the flagship

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