NPDS - Can the Rangers keep Jacob deGrom healthy!? Bobby Witt Jr. & Spring Training injury scares! Is MLS on Apple a failure? (Episode 1234)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’velocity’ as in fastball as in baseball as in Jacob deGrom as in Tommy John. The Texas Rangers have a major deGrom problem. They paid him to pitch and he doesn’t pitch. How can they keep him healthy? (13:00) Bobby Witt Jr. had an injury scare yesterday. Got hit by a pitch and went down. How does it feel to be in the front office watching this happen? (18:00) Josh Allen spoke after getting his big deal. He said he took less money so the team could sign some more players. Good for him. (26:20) The Jets have officially released Aaron Rodgers. What’s he going to do? (32:30) Review: Jerry Maguire. (38:00) NPPOD. (42:30) The Utah Jazz were fined for not making players available for national games. The tank is on. Fail for Flagg! (45:10) Apple and MLS was never a good deal. MLS needs more viewers. It needs more reach. Is it time to call this broadcast deal a failure? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	Here you go.
0:04.3	It is Thursday, March 13, 2025. Today's episode is
0:24.8	brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The crown is yours. Velocity. We're all searching for it.
0:33.7	We want our kids to have it. Throw as hard as you can as young as you can do it.
0:39.3	Get yourself drafted.
0:40.9	Lie about your age.
0:42.8	Let's get a different birth certificate.
0:44.7	Let's change places with someone.
0:46.9	Let's throw breaking balls as a child.
0:50.6	All we're doing is chasing velocity, looking at players, getting scattered reports.
0:55.7	Ooh, he sits at 97. We get so enthralled with it. And what velocity tends to do is lead to injury.
1:06.6	Jacob deGrom is one of the great examples of a pitcher who clearly had a stretch as one of the,
1:14.9	if not the best pitcher in all of Major League Baseball.
1:18.1	When we would face Jacob de Grom, it was an L.
1:21.8	We would plan ahead and look to see what the Mets rotation was because we wanted no part of DeGrom ever.
1:30.8	If we could manufacture any sort of schedule change to not face him, in his prime,
1:40.0	if you had to ask me the most dominant pitcher who I saw pitch against our teams over those 18 years,
1:48.9	Jacob deGrom is in the conversation. Jacob deGrom is going to be in the top five.
1:53.3	Jacob deGrom is going to be talked about with Randy Johnson, with Pedro Martinez.
1:58.1	However, Jacob deGrom has had injury issues. Injury issues that make his career
2:04.9	seem closer to Tim Linsicum than to Nolan Ryan. Jacob de Grom, who is now being protected
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