PTFO - Stranger Than Fiction: Behind the Scenes of the Yankees Wife-Swap Scandal

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In the early 1970s, two pitchers for the New York Yankees agreed to the wildest trade in sports history: They switched wives. And children. And furniture. And pets. But this sex scandal cut way deeper than the tabloid headlines. David Mandel — veteran writer for Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep and The Simpsons — laments his big-screen adaptation that never was... even though the ultimate passion project could have starred Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. And we go deep inside a story that's equal parts swinging and missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Dave Mandel, I should say that I have been on a bit of an odyssey that has led me to you.
1:04.0	Uh oh, well, uh oh, in a couple of senses that I want to explore and excavate with you,
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1:15.0	can kind of just go in chronological order or you can kind of just go in
1:18.4	chronological order or you can just kind of go what my I guess Tombstone will say which is the guy that wrote the
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