2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class announced! Ichiro missed on unanimous by ONE VOTE! Are you kidding me!? (Episode 1203)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘first ballot’ as in first ballot Hall of Fame as in Ichiro as in CC as in Wagner. That’s it. The whole class is three players. And Ichiro missed being unanimous by just one single vote. Just like Derek Jeter. Unreal. (20:00) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Paul Skenes rookie card bounty and what the Pirates should offer now. They also want to know if I would sign Skenes longterm now. Hm. (33:05) Review: Blue Velvet. (36:20) The Chicago Bears went big and hired Ben Johnson. The hottest name in NFL coaching. They needed to make a splash for Caleb Williams. (43:40) College sports have changed everything. Now comes the ugly. Wisconsin and the Big Ten are ready to battle Miami and a player over a transfer. Here is why. (51:50) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	First ballot.
0:49.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:53.3	It is Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025.
1:00.1	And yesterday, live from Cooperstown, was the announcement for this year's class,
1:05.5	the 2025 class for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
1:09.3	Cooperstown is a magical place.
1:12.4	Cooperstown will be welcoming Ichero.
1:17.0	It will be welcoming C.C. Sabathia and it will be welcoming Billy Wagner.
1:19.8	Those were the three names announced yesterday.
1:23.3	In what is always the most peculiar process,
1:31.0	there are members in good standing of the Baseball W of america many of them make their ballots public the way it works is there's a decision by the hall of fame of who will be on
1:37.8	the ballot it is an honor just to be on the ballot you are eligible to be on the ballot five years after retiring for Major
1:47.1	League Baseball. Once on the ballot, you have 10 tries to get 75% of the vote in order to gain
1:56.1	induction into the Hall of Fame. Any year you're below 5%, you are not eligible to return to the
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