Albert Pujols doesn't get his Hollywood ending (5/7)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘hollywood’ as in a Hollywood ending as in Albert Pujols has been designated for assignment by the Los Angeles Angels. Pujols is in the final year of a 10-year, $240M deal — the timing of this designation was out of nowhere. Let’s try and talk through this situation, his comments, his legacy in LA, and how the Angels chose to let this end. (16:00) Bonus story: What happened with AJ Burnett in September of 2005? (19:57) Bills GM Brandon Beane says he would cut a player if they didn’t get vaccinated. Whoa. It’s rare for a team executive to be that open about such a hot button topic. (32:53) Review: Every Breath You Take. (36:00) NPPOD. (39:27) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Arizona of Governor Doug Ducey passing a new tax bill. What does this all mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:19.3	Hollywood nothing personal word of the day
0:22.9	May 7th
0:24.2	2021 coming to live
0:26.9	From my high city
0:31.9	Hollywood ending is not what Albert Poole's had. It's the biggest story of the day
0:36.3	Biggest story of the night to me. It's a story that was inevitable and
0:42.3	fans and executives have two very different perspectives
0:47.9	Executives and media have two very different perspectives on
0:51.2	How to handle superstars who are declining how to deal with contracts that are clearly not marked to market a concept
1:01.1	We've talked about quite a bit on nothing personal
1:03.4	Where if a player is making five million dollars, but is an MVP that player could be earning 30 million dollars
1:10.2	And you are obviously gaining a great benefit if however players making 30 million dollars and playing
1:14.9	Like someone who should be making five hundred thousand dollars. You clearly are on the wrong side of a contract
1:21.5	That's been marked to market
1:23.5	in a very bizarre
1:26.8	ending
1:28.0	to a
1:29.5	tumultuous
1:30.9	Ten year say that five times in a row a
1:34.5	bizarre ending to a tumultuous tenure a very bizarre ending to a tumultuous tenure. I could only get to three goka
1:41.9	That's early
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