<description>&lt;p&gt;🔴 SPORTS CHASERS PODCAST — EPISODE 489 | THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thursday, March 19, 2026 | Powered by Sports Chasers Media Group&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Venezuela are your 2026 World Baseball Classic Champions! Eugenio&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suárez delivered a walk-off double in the 9th to stun Team USA 3-2&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;in one of the most dramatic finales in WBC history. Maikel Garcia&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;named MVP. Bryce Harper's jaw-dropping 8th-inning bomb almost saved&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Team USA — but it wasn't enough. We break it all down TONIGHT!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PLUS — the WNBA just made history with a landmark seven-year CBA&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;deal — salary cap jumping from $1.5 million to $7 million overnight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MLB signs a controversial $150M-$300M exclusive prediction market&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;deal with Polymarket. March Madness brackets are LIVE and already&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;bleeding. The NHL playoff race is heating up. The NBA is on absolute&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;fire. And special guest A.M. Pfeffer — co-host of Beyond The Surface&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;on the X-Rayted Sports Network — joins the Chasers panel live to go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;deeper than any headline on every single one of these stories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;⭐ MOST SIGNIFICANT CHAPTER&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🎰 33:20 — MLB's Controversial $300M Polymarket Prediction Market Deal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MLB just signed a multiyear exclusive deal with Polymarket worth&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;between $150M and $300M — making baseball the latest major league&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;to embrace prediction markets. But with Arizona filing criminal&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;charges against rival platform Kalshi just two days before the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;announcement — is MLB being visionary or signing with the devil?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kevin, A.M. Pfeffer, and the full panel go DEEP on the business,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the integrity risk, and what this means for the future of sports.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;☢️ TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST — A.M. PFEFFER&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Co-Host | Beyond The Surface | X-Rayted Sports Network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🌐 https://xraytedsports.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;📸 https://www.instagram.com/xraytedsports/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;📘 https://www.facebook.com/xraytedsports/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;☢️ FOLLOW TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST — A.M. PFEFFER&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Co-Host of Beyond The Surface | X-Rayted Sports Network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If tonight's conversation hit different for you — that's A.M.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pfeffer. He brings a perspective to sports that goes beyond the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;box score — into the business, the leadership, and the real forces&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;shaping the game. Go connect with him and the X-Rayted Sports&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Network and tell him Chasers Nation sent you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🌐 https://xraytedsports.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;📸 https://www.instagram.com/xraytedsports/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;📘 https://www.facebook.com/xraytedsports/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🌐 SPORTS CHASERS — CONNECT WITH US&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🏆 Website → https://sportschaserspodcast.net/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;📧 Newsletter "Game On" (Every Monday) → https://sportschaserspodcast.net/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;👕 Merch → https://1800tshirts.chipply.com/sportschaserspodcast/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🎤 Narration: Ken Marsiglia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🎵 Intro: Super Bowl | Outro: Buss Down&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🎵 Music Licensed via Epidemic Sound&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🎛️ Music Producer: Darrell L. Warren&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🎬 Intro &amp;amp; Outro Video: Azad S.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🔔 SUPPORT • FOLLOW • FEEDBACK – CHASERS NATION 🔔&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;⭐ LOVE → https://lovethepodcast.com/678c0f38d2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🔔 FOLLOW → https://followt&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Kevin L. Warren, Dorian Albritton, James E. Warren, Darrell L. Warren, Mike Mills, Daniel Krainbucher, and Ryan DeSouza

Venezuela WBC Champions, WNBA's $7M Historic CBA Deal, MLB's Controversial Gambling Partnership & NBA Expansion Debate | EP. 489

MAR 20, 2026103 MIN
Sports Chasers

Venezuela WBC Champions, WNBA's $7M Historic CBA Deal, MLB's Controversial Gambling Partnership & NBA Expansion Debate | EP. 489

MAR 20, 2026103 MIN

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<p>🔴 SPORTS CHASERS PODCAST — EPISODE 489 | THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE</p><p>Thursday, March 19, 2026 | Powered by Sports Chasers Media Group</p><p><br></p><p>Venezuela are your 2026 World Baseball Classic Champions! Eugenio&nbsp;</p><p>Suárez delivered a walk-off double in the 9th to stun Team USA 3-2&nbsp;</p><p>in one of the most dramatic finales in WBC history. Maikel Garcia&nbsp;</p><p>named MVP. Bryce Harper's jaw-dropping 8th-inning bomb almost saved&nbsp;</p><p>Team USA — but it wasn't enough. We break it all down TONIGHT!</p><p><br></p><p>PLUS — the WNBA just made history with a landmark seven-year CBA&nbsp;</p><p>deal — salary cap jumping from $1.5 million to $7 million overnight.&nbsp;</p><p>MLB signs a controversial $150M-$300M exclusive prediction market&nbsp;</p><p>deal with Polymarket. March Madness brackets are LIVE and already&nbsp;</p><p>bleeding. The NHL playoff race is heating up. The NBA is on absolute&nbsp;</p><p>fire. And special guest A.M. Pfeffer — co-host of Beyond The Surface&nbsp;</p><p>on the X-Rayted Sports Network — joins the Chasers panel live to go&nbsp;</p><p>deeper than any headline on every single one of these stories.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>⭐ MOST SIGNIFICANT CHAPTER</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>🎰 33:20 — MLB's Controversial $300M Polymarket Prediction Market Deal</p><p>MLB just signed a multiyear exclusive deal with Polymarket worth&nbsp;</p><p>between $150M and $300M — making baseball the latest major league&nbsp;</p><p>to embrace prediction markets. But with Arizona filing criminal&nbsp;</p><p>charges against rival platform Kalshi just two days before the&nbsp;</p><p>announcement — is MLB being visionary or signing with the devil?&nbsp;</p><p>Kevin, A.M. Pfeffer, and the full panel go DEEP on the business,&nbsp;</p><p>the integrity risk, and what this means for the future of sports.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>☢️ TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST — A.M. PFEFFER</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>Co-Host | Beyond The Surface | X-Rayted Sports Network</p><p>🌐 https://xraytedsports.com/</p><p>📸 https://www.instagram.com/xraytedsports/</p><p>📘 https://www.facebook.com/xraytedsports/</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>☢️ FOLLOW TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST — A.M. PFEFFER</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>Co-Host of Beyond The Surface | X-Rayted Sports Network</p><p><br></p><p>If tonight's conversation hit different for you — that's A.M.&nbsp;</p><p>Pfeffer. He brings a perspective to sports that goes beyond the&nbsp;</p><p>box score — into the business, the leadership, and the real forces&nbsp;</p><p>shaping the game. Go connect with him and the X-Rayted Sports&nbsp;</p><p>Network and tell him Chasers Nation sent you!</p><p><br></p><p>🌐 https://xraytedsports.com/</p><p>📸 https://www.instagram.com/xraytedsports/</p><p>📘 https://www.facebook.com/xraytedsports/</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>🌐 SPORTS CHASERS — CONNECT WITH US</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>🏆 Website → https://sportschaserspodcast.net/</p><p>📧 Newsletter "Game On" (Every Monday) → https://sportschaserspodcast.net/</p><p>👕 Merch → https://1800tshirts.chipply.com/sportschaserspodcast/</p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Narration: Ken Marsiglia</p><p>🎵 Intro: Super Bowl | Outro: Buss Down</p><p>🎵 Music Licensed via Epidemic Sound</p><p>🎛️ Music Producer: Darrell L. Warren</p><p>🎬 Intro &amp; Outro Video: Azad S.</p><p><br></p><p>🔔 SUPPORT • FOLLOW • FEEDBACK – CHASERS NATION 🔔</p><p>⭐ LOVE → https://lovethepodcast.com/678c0f38d2</p><p>🔔 FOLLOW → https://followt</p>