Are Tampa Bay Rays bringing Moneyball back? (10/13)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's word of the day is 'scrutiny' as in what front offices in MLB are doing right now as in the Tampa Bay Rays are changing the game again. Can the Rays win the World Series? Of course. Will other teams try and become the Rays? Maybe. Are front offices around the league watching the Rays to see if this all works out? Absolutely (0:06). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about what's going on with the Boston Red Sox and if it could impact the team's payroll. If you don't know what's going on with the Boston Red Sox... here you go (18:26). Review - One More Orbit (29:40). San Diego Padres player Tommy Pham was stabbed while leaving a strip club. There was an argument by his car and he tried to intervene. He ended up in a hospital. Nightmare (32:25). Here's a big update on some wait to see updates that have been made throughout the year. I tell you if it happens, if it does i tell you, if it doesn't I tell you... accountability (38:45). #waittosee --------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	There's nothing worse when you're an executive of a team which has been eliminated.
0:28.6	There you have two choices really. You either don't watch the playoffs and you put your head
0:34.6	in the sand and you've been eliminated and you're despondent and you're taking a little
0:39.4	vacation or you're getting ready for next year, you're figuring out what to do with your
0:42.8	payroll with your team and you just don't pay attention. Or you pay attention and agonizingly
0:49.1	watch as teams against which you compete are winning something that you can't win this
0:56.8	year that you haven't won before if you've never won or that you haven't won again if you have one.
1:03.6	And when you're watching the teams play, you invariably say the same thing and I did this
1:08.4	every year. Wait a minute, we're way better than we have a better infield than that. Our starting
1:14.5	pitching is better than theirs and you play this game with yourself where you're convinced
1:21.2	that the world conspired to eliminate your team and that it wasn't because of you or any
1:28.7	failings in development or scouting or choosing players or trading players or signing players.
1:34.5	It was simply some sort of kismet had gone wrong. I used to watch the playoffs every year
1:43.6	before the Marlins won the World Series and after, it didn't matter. Watch them. And I would try to
1:49.4	learn how to be better. Obviously didn't work since we never made the playoffs again. I tried to
1:54.7	understand what other teams were doing, what they were thinking. I would take notes and I would
2:00.4	speak to executives at owner's meetings after the playoffs and talk about different things with their
2:04.8	team. But everyone hides everything like they're holding the secret formula to cook or something.
2:10.7	It's Coca-Cola. It sort of makes me crazy. I was always willing to say, yeah, here was our
2:15.7	evaluation of this player. Here's the market that we thought for this player. Here's where we
2:20.0	thought this player would be. Here's what we think this player should get paid. Here's why we fired
2:25.7	the manager. I was happy to go through all of those things. I don't mind the scrutiny. I never
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Samson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Samson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.