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

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Thursday, March 19, 2026 | Powered by Sports Chasers Media Group

Venezuela are your 2026 World Baseball Classic Champions! Eugenio 

Suárez delivered a walk-off double in the 9th to stun Team USA 3-2 

in one of the most dramatic finales in WBC history. Maikel Garcia 

named MVP. Bryce Harper's jaw-dropping 8th-inning bomb almost saved 

Team USA — but it wasn't enough. We break it all down TONIGHT!

PLUS — the WNBA just made history with a landmark seven-year CBA 

deal — salary cap jumping from $1.5 million to $7 million overnight. 

MLB signs a controversial $150M-$300M exclusive prediction market 

deal with Polymarket. March Madness brackets are LIVE and already 

bleeding. The NHL playoff race is heating up. The NBA is on absolute 

fire. And special guest A.M. Pfeffer — co-host of Beyond The Surface 

on the X-Rayted Sports Network — joins the Chasers panel live to go 

deeper than any headline on every single one of these stories.

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⭐ MOST SIGNIFICANT CHAPTER

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🎰 33:20 — MLB's Controversial $300M Polymarket Prediction Market Deal

MLB just signed a multiyear exclusive deal with Polymarket worth 

between $150M and $300M — making baseball the latest major league 

to embrace prediction markets. But with Arizona filing criminal 

charges against rival platform Kalshi just two days before the 

announcement — is MLB being visionary or signing with the devil? 

Kevin, A.M. Pfeffer, and the full panel go DEEP on the business, 

the integrity risk, and what this means for the future of sports.

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☢️ TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST — A.M. PFEFFER

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Co-Host | Beyond The Surface | X-Rayted Sports Network

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☢️ FOLLOW TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST — A.M. PFEFFER

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Co-Host of Beyond The Surface | X-Rayted Sports Network

If tonight's conversation hit different for you — that's A.M. 

Pfeffer. He brings a perspective to sports that goes beyond the 

box score — into the business, the leadership, and the real forces 

shaping the game. Go connect with him and the X-Rayted Sports 

Network and tell him Chasers Nation sent you!

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