Astros booed on Opening Day because fans never forget; Understanding Supreme Court and NCAA v. Alston case (4/2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘calm’ as in everybody calm down as in take a breath as in yesterday was just one game of 162 of them. The Houston Astros played in front of fans and the Oakland fans let them hear it. Boos on boos on boos! Remember the sign-stealing dilemma? Feels like a decade ago. (7:30) Why are pitchers still batting? Why is there no Universal DH? We saw how ridiculous things were when Tyler Glasnow batted for Tampa Bay. (15:00) NPPOD. (18:30) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Supreme Court hearing the NCAA v. Alston case and they wanted it to be explained like they weren’t a lawyer. (31:39) Review: Operation Varsity Blues. (36:10) Red Sox owner Tom Werner says that LeBron James is good for Boston, and good for business, but there was something he said that I couldn’t believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Come nothing personal word of the day April 2nd 2021 is calm as in everybody calm down.
0:26.1	Just take a minute and recognize that yesterday was opening day in Major League Baseball.
0:33.4	One game of 162.
0:37.1	Of course I think that opening day means more than any other game of the year and that
0:40.8	of course is the silliest most irrelevant thought that an executive can have but every single
0:47.2	executive and every single fan thinks the same thing.
0:51.6	You work your way up to opening day starting with the day you're eliminated including
0:55.9	even if it's in game 100 of the previous season you start thinking about opening day of
1:01.5	the next season whether it's the day you lose the World Series the Tampa rays started
1:06.0	preparing for yesterday's game right after they pulled Blake's snow in game 6 of the World
1:12.1	Series that Dodger started thinking about repeating the minute Justin Turner got off the field
1:18.2	at the end of last year's World Series.
1:20.0	Everyone prepares and then it comes and it's just one game but a lot of stuff happened yesterday
1:28.1	that was very telling to me and may be indicative of what this season holds.
1:33.8	No I'm just kidding it has nothing to do with it.
1:37.2	Not one result has anything to do with any results that will take place during the course
1:43.2	of the entire season.
1:44.5	Now in a 60 game season last year we used to say remember if you win one game that's like a
1:49.2	three game winning streak it's like sweeping a series well we're back to 162
1:54.4	COVID or no COVID nationals didn't get to open yesterday because of COVID so they may only play
2:00.8	159 games.
2:03.0	No they're playing 162 they just have fewer days to do it.
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