Bob Nightengale

Look at Todd Father with those pearly whites there at the finish line of the intro, and a lot of smiles for the Dodgers winning their 13th division title in 14 years.

And as Bob Nightengale wrote, they'll be favored to win a third consecutive World Series.

We'll see if they actually pull that off, and we can talk about this amongst what's going on with the ball club.

But they're smiling right now, Todd Father.

So, you know, it's interesting 'cause these guys are gonna be running to the, the lineup like you do in high school.

Bob Nightengale put something out, and it's funny because, you know, the Giants, uh, they've been winning more, but that's because it's been a pretty low bar.

But he said [chuckles] this, he said, "The Dodgers could be the biggest benefactors of Devers' absence.

They are battling for a first round bye and still have six games remaining With the Giants.

That's not what we're seeing anymore.

Bob Nightengale had an ar- an article for the U- for USA Today where he talked a little bit about this, and apparently I'm not the only one who's been bothered by this.

And I've been talking about this on X all year long.

Like, if you've been following me on X, you know that I've mentioned this on a, on a few occasions.

The Chica- he-- So this is from a Bob Nightengale story on USA- in USA Today this week.

He noted that the Chicago Cubs set a franchise record, one shy of the Major League record, by hitting nine home runs against the Brewers last week.

But three of those home runs were hit off first baseman Andrew Vaughn, who came into pitch.

Like, that's ridiculous.

Anyways, let's keep rolling here.

Uh, the Reds were named, and we'll dive into this in a bit, but most likely to sell by Bob Nightengale.

And this one, well, it's mighty, mighty interesting, because there's gonna be a lot of people that have strong opinions about this.

But, uh, rival owners predict the Cincinnati Reds could be the next Major League Baseball team sold.

Welcome back.

I'm James Rpin, alongside Marissa Constelli and Jacob Tissett.

We are your morning sports show, Cincinnati, and boy, oh, boy, will the Reds do it? Well, they are at least mentioned by Bob Nightengale of USA Today as the next Major League Baseball team that could sell, and this is exactly what Nightengale wrote.

He said, "Rival owners predict the Cincinnati Reds could be the next Major League Baseball team sold.

Yeah.

Bob Nightengale's a national MLB writer with USA Today.

He joins us in Blair and Barker.

How you doing, Bob?

Take care.

Thanks.

Bob Nightengale is a national MLB writer with USA Today.

And yeah, that, uh, the, the, the California, and, again, as, as Passan said, let's wait and see the entire ownership details, how much of it is ballpark and there, and land around it.

Um, but yeah, I think this is, this is pretty good.

The only reason I hesitated to that question is Bob Nightengale just put out a tweet that Arte Moreno was told by Shohei Ohtani that he'd come back to the Angels if he matched the Dodgers' deal.

Which, you know, who, I don't know if that's true or not.

Bob put it out.

Hmm.

There was also a, a report that came out today from our friends over at Arizona Sports.

Uh, this was from, uh, our friends Gambo as well as Alex Weiner.

Uh, and they kind of added a, a piece to this story that had not previously come out.

Apparently Ketel Marte also had an incident back in 2023 where he did not show up to the ballpark.