Big Money, Slow Starts: Trea Turner, Carlos Correa, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers; The shameful treatment of Vinicius Jr in Spain (Episode 821)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘length’ as in long term as in length of contracts as in Trea Turner as in Xander Bogaerts as in Rafael Devers as in Carlos Correa. What’s going on with them? All got big deals. All have slow starts. Is it worth it? (13:50) Roger Goodell is here to say. Boo him all you want. But the extension is here. (25:45) Review: The Covenant. (30:30) What’s happening in Spain right now needs to be addressed. Vinicius Jr needs all the support he can get. What happens when a league and country don’t do enough to protect a player? (42:20) NPPOD Let's be better today! I'm going to go for a run. Get some fresh air! Let's have a day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:03.4	Here you go.
0:07.0	Length.
0:16.4	Nothing personal word of the day.
0:17.8	Good morning.
0:18.8	It is Wednesday, May 24th, 2023.
0:22.8	My word of the day is length as in length of contracts.
0:27.2	I spent the better part of yesterday wondering where it all went wrong and wondering whether
0:32.0	I had anything to do with what's going on in baseball and the fact that players are
0:37.2	getting these long contracts of 10 years or more and then stinking, either being hurt
0:43.1	or not performing.
0:44.7	I was thinking back to the Giancarlo Stan contract and understanding exactly why we went
0:51.4	to 13 years.
0:53.0	We went to 13 years because he didn't want to sign with us long term and we needed
0:58.0	to sign him to change the narrative around our team that we were able to keep players.
1:04.2	I just said to him, what if I went to 13 years and you were taking care of the rest of
1:08.8	your career and he hadn't had one at that since he got hit in the face and he said I
1:13.3	won't be able to say no to that.
1:16.0	It wasn't the first contract that long though.
1:18.5	It was the first contract that long.
1:20.2	How can I say it both ways?
1:21.8	There were long term deals that were 10 or more years at that point as I recall.
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