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NPDS - Yankees NEED Judge and Stanton in the lineup! How do they make it work? A SUPER BOWL IN LONDON!? (Episode 1340 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘DH’ as in designated hitter as in Aaron Judge as in Giancarlo Stanton as in the Yankees as in home runs as in Aaron Boone. What a game last night for the Yankees. The bats were alive. How can the Yankees keep this lineup together? What is Judge’s arm health? Why did Aaron Boone not know? (16:00) Victor Robles has been suspended by MLB for 10 games. That’s a huge number for what he did in his rehab assignment. Threw a bat at a pitcher! (27:30) The Super Bowl in London? Roger Goodell wants it! Would it ever happen? (36:00) Review: Eddington (39:30) The Indianapolis Colts are going with Daniel Jones as QB. Anthony Richardson, the No. 4 pick from 2023, has found himself back on the bench. Wow. (48:00) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you. That's the nothing personal

0:37.3

That's the nothing personal letters of the day.

0:41.4

Designated hitter. Today is Wednesday, August 20th, 20, 2025.

0:46.6

Portions of today's nothing personal may have been pre-recorded.

0:56.5

In today's game with the New York Yankees,

0:59.8

there was a record-breaking amount of offense.

1:02.3

There were home runs galore, back-to-back-to-back,

1:06.6

hit by the first inning three Yankees, Bellinger, Stanton, Judge.

1:14.1

Third time that that's happened during the course of one year.

1:17.1

That's a record.

1:17.8

And the Yankees pounded the Tampa Bay raise after a rain delay.

1:23.3

However, before the game, that's when the real drama happened.

1:29.0

Because before the game, it became clear that Aaron Judge would no longer be able to play

1:35.6

outfield as had been discussed on previous Nothing Personal episodes.

1:40.1

The reason why Aaron Judge was not going to play the outfield is that he has a flexor strain and he can't throw.

1:48.1

So, what do you do when you're the Yankees and you've got multiple DHS on your roster?

1:53.0

And one of them's name is Jean-Carlo Stanton and he's good.

1:57.3

As a matter of fact, since July 30, since July 4, 8, pre-recorded 6, 9,

2:03.2

since July 1st, Jean-Carlo Stanton has hit 327.

2:09.1

His OPS is over 1,100, and he's got 14 home runs and 35 rebis.

2:15.3

The problem is that when he plays right field, which he has to do when Aaron Judge is dehing,

2:21.3

he has a tendency to get a little sore, which causes him to miss a couple games, which he just did,

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