Astros saved by Yordan blast, Braves slow start; MLB "freak" injuries list growing; Are Padres trying to keep Dodgers fans in LA? (Episode 676)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘stale’ as in stale bread as in unripe as in moldy as in sitting around too long as in the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros both found themselves down early in their games. The Braves tried to make a comeback against the Phillies but fell a run short. The Astros needed a historic blast from Yordan Alvarez to walk-off against the Mariners. (11:00) Scott Servais chose to pitch Robbie Ray in the 9th inning against Yordan Alvarez. Do you agree with that move? Did this backfire? (17:10) we have a Draymond Green update. He’ll be back sooner than most thought. (20:40) We had news of two different sort of freak injuries that will keep pitchers from the Divisional Series. David Robertson got hurt celebrating a Bryce Harper home run by jumping! Phil Maton broke his hand punching a locker angry after a game. WHAT!? Inexcusable. (29:00) Review: Don’t Make Me Go. (31:10) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Padres trying to keep Dodgers fans away from San Diego for the Divisional Series. Hmm. Will it work? (35:45) NPPOD. (39:30) We have an update on Eric Kay, former Los Angeles Angels staffer, he’s going to jail. Adnan Syed is getting out of jail. Brett Favre, not going to jail, but should be in jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You go there.
0:10.9	Here you go.
0:27.0	Stale is the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, October 12, 2022, style happens
0:27.7	because when you leave cheese too long and it turns moldy and it's not rocfort,
0:32.3	still happens when you have milk, go sour, you smell it.
0:37.0	You know, not having taste or smell makes it very difficult to know when something
0:41.3	is still.
0:42.8	So I have to go by date officially and sometimes you can fudge that a little bit, but when
0:48.5	you can't smell it.
0:50.1	Still, the debate that happens in Major League Baseball is a very simple one.
0:54.3	Do you want to go into the playoffs like the Dodgers, having won your division by 75
1:01.2	games, having clinched on April 7th, having had the best record clinched and homefield
1:09.3	through the World Series since May 68th.
1:13.7	Or do you want to go in where you squeeze in by the skin of your teeth, you clinched
1:17.3	the second to last day, you then go right into Wildcard Series, you go the distance in
1:21.7	the Wildcard Series and then you start your next round.
1:26.0	There were major discussions in Major League Baseball when coming up with the Playoff format
1:31.8	about the concept of teams being stale.
1:34.5	And owners don't come up with that on their own, of course, team presidents.
1:37.3	I didn't think of that.
1:38.8	You come up with it when your GM comes up to you and says, listen, we need to have this
1:45.4	workout and that workout.
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