Angels waive Giolito, Yankees waive Donaldson, Bader; MLB cannot allow what happened in Colorado and Chicago to happen again (Episode 878)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘surrender’ as in give up as in waving the white flag as in the Los Angeles Angels have given up. Waiving players they traded for to make a playoff push. The Yankees waive Donaldson and Bader. The Mets waived Carrasco. Mike Clevinger got waived. (18:45) MLB, MLBPA will get involved in player safety even more now after what took place in Colorado and Chicago. How did these things take place? How were safety measures lacking so much that this happened? (30:10) Review: BS High. (34:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me if expansion will put an end to relocation threats… hmmm. (41:30) NPPOD. (43:15) Free drinks for everyone in Milwaukee! How? If the Jets lose at one bar! But! There are conditions! Go here please: davidsamsonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go, here you go.
0:15.3	Surrender is the nothing personal word of the day.
0:18.3	Welcome.
0:19.3	It is Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, and we're talking about surrender because that's what
0:26.1	everybody is talking about with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim because word leaked out that
0:33.1	they were waving all their players.
0:36.8	Questions were coming in on David Samsonpodcast.com.
0:39.8	Coconut iron on the phone discussing it.
0:43.2	I want to explain to you exactly what happened and I never miss an opportunity to get on the
0:50.7	Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles.
0:53.3	You know how I feel about what they do, how they do it, and where we are with Otani,
0:58.2	with generally having the two of the five best players and playing zero playoff games, no
1:03.0	wins for trout.
1:04.9	You know if you're nothing personal, Fand.
1:07.2	But let me help you be smarter when you're talking to people today about this issue.
1:14.1	This is normal.
1:17.2	It may not be outstanding from a baseball operation standpoint that the Angels decided to go for
1:26.4	it at the trade deadline.
1:28.8	It may not have been a good move that they made trades and added and traded away their number
1:33.4	two and three ranked prospect.
1:35.9	They brought in a starter, they brought in a reliever, they brought in bats trying to
1:41.6	maybe find a way to get into the playoffs.
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