Another statement, another postponement, another avoidable tragedy (4/13)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘taser’ as in here we go again. Another young African-American was shot and killed by police. This officer thought they were using a taser… unbelievable. So the sports world in Minnesota stopped again. The Twins, Timberwolves, and Wild all postponed games last night. What goes into these decisions? (10:57) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me what I would say to players who didn’t play last night. (21:26) Review: Girl In The Basement. (28:15) Sam Darnold met the media in Carolina for the first time since being traded by the New York Jets. (35:17) NPPOD. (40:08) What are the plans for the Chicago Cubs? Are they ready to sell Baez, Bryant, and Rizzo? The team currently has the worst batting average in baseball. 0:00 - Intro 0:10 - Minnesota sports on pause 10:57 - Players not wanting to play 19:26 - Girl In The Basement 26:15 - Darnold meets the media 33:17 - NNPOD 38:08 - Do Cubs become sellers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:07.0	Taser.
0:17.5	Nothing personal word of the day for April 13th, 2021 is taser.
0:22.6	It's the top of the news and sports is the top of the news in politics.
0:26.8	The top of the news in this country, maybe around the world, not sure around the world.
0:32.8	Should it be top of the news around the world?
0:35.7	Another shooting of a black kid pulled over for an infraction air fresheners, I guess, on
0:43.3	the rear view mirror had an outstanding warrant.
0:46.5	A police officer in Minnesota, where the trial of the officer who killed George Floyd
0:54.3	is happening right now and pulled out a gun, thought it was a taser, yell taser, and
1:01.2	it was an actual gun shot, Dante, right, and killed him.
1:07.6	This reverberated through the sports world yesterday very, very quickly because times
1:13.6	require that when something happens in your backyard, it used to be that when it was
1:20.2	a natural disaster, you had to think about how to deal with it.
1:25.5	Now it's any event that happens in your backyard when you have a sports team, you have to
1:30.6	be very, very careful how you play it.
1:33.6	What you say when you say it and whether or not to even play.
1:38.4	The Minnesota twins, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Minnesota Wild all had game scheduled
1:45.5	last night and all postponed.
1:51.3	I started thinking about what goes into those decisions to postpone a game and it used
1:58.9	to be a much easier decision.
2:02.1	We would be in contact with the local authorities when there was a hurricane in Miami.
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