Jared Carrabis has been here before.<\/p>\n
Not this exact spot \u2014 the end of a partnership with Underdog Fantasy heading into a baseball season with no signed deal and a nine-person operation to keep running \u2014 but the broader situation of having to figure out what comes next, in public, while people are watching to see if he can. He did it, leaving Barstool<\/a> in 2022. He did it, leaving DraftKings<\/a> two years later. Each time, he felt like he proved skeptics wrong. On a recent YouTube live stream of Baseball is Dead<\/a>, Carrabis made it clear he expects that pattern to hold.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease subscribe to the YouTube channel, it\u2019s going to be a big part of what we\u2019ve got going on,\u201d Carrabis said. \u201cMoving forward, we\u2019re discussing a bunch of content plans for 2026. As far as the partnership with Underdog being done, I would venture to guess that in 2026, you will have never gotten more from us. It\u2019s not a step back. Actually, you\u2019re going to get a lot more now.\u201d<\/p>\n What that path looks like is still being worked out, and Carrabis was careful not to oversell where things stand, but he made clear that Baseball is Dead and Section 10 have multiple real options on the table. Going independent is one of them, something he described as genuinely \u201cintriguing\u201d rather than a fallback. Operating without a single gambling partner attached means no corporate politics around content, no stoppages, and more control over how the shows run day to day, and Carrabis said he spent the weekend before the stream putting together a full business plan for what that could actually look like.<\/p>\n \u201cThe nature of the business is having to negotiate deals with sponsors,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s not a hobby. We\u2019ve got a nine-man roster\u2026 This is everyone\u2019s livelihood. So, yes, we do have to have sponsorship. And to the haters who think, I saw the \u2018Gravy train was over\u2019 or something like that, we have more money in sponsorship right now \u2014 without a gambling partner currently \u2014\u00a0 than I think a lot of people would realize. It\u2019s just a matter of we\u2019ve got nine guys on this team, so I\u2019ve got to make sure everyone is taken care of on that nine-man roster.\u201d<\/p>\n As for the people who treated the Underdog split as the end of something, Carrabis wasn\u2019t particularly concerned about their read on the situation. He has left Barstool and DraftKings, and each time landed on his feet, building an audience that followed him through every transition rather than staying behind on whatever platform he left.<\/p>\n Carrabis built his name at Barstool Sports starting in 2014, where Section 10 became essential listening for Red Sox fans, and Baseball is Dead developed a broader MLB audience. He left for DraftKings in 2022 specifically to prove he could succeed<\/a> outside the Barstool ecosystem \u2014 losing the Section 10 name in the process and rebranding the show as Name Redacted <\/a>\u2014 and then moved to Underdog in 2024, where he reunited with Coley Mick, reclaimed Section 10<\/a>, and brought Baseball is Dead with him.<\/p>\n The only place for now that he won\u2019t be bringing either podcast is Jomboy Media, which Carrabis said was not interested in joining forces.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s media companies, there\u2019s sportsbooks that we\u2019re talking to, it\u2019s just a matter of piecing it altogether,\u201d Carrabis said. \u201cI know that there are people out there that were celebrating the separation from Underdog like Saddam [Hussein] was taken out of power, but they\u2019re going to be really disappointed when they see the next chapter of what we\u2019re doing because we\u2019re gonna be just fine. It was an unforeseen bump in the road, but we will recover. It\u2019s a minor annoyance in the story of Section 10 and Baseball is Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n Updates from Jared on @baseballisdead_<\/a> and @Section10Pod<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2014 Discussing multiple options
\u2014 Jomboy not happening
\u2014 Independent is on the table
\u2014 Priority #1 is never to have a paywall
\u2014 Speaking with media companies and sportsbooks that could be an option pic.twitter.com\/N0FzcKywbC<\/a><\/p>\n