Bill Belichick and the Patriots free agency spending; Sports embracing the gambling boom (3/16)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘232’ as in the New England Patriots spent $232M in the first day of free agency. What? How? Why is the NFL and NBA free agency so much fun and MLB is so boring? Is Bill Belichick trying to make up for the fact that Tom Brady won a Super Bowl without him? (11:15) March Madness is here and Indiana is not in it. The Hoosiers have fired Archie Miller after four seasons. And we’ve got ourselves a statement! Miller’s buyout money will be paid by money raised from boosters! (22:13) Review: Allen v Farrow. (30:12) NPPOD. (32:15) Let’s talk about the gambling boom. Years ago is was a major red flag in the sports world. A major no-no! Now it’s being embraced! Why? REVENUE! (43:05) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the signing of Hirokazu Sawamura being signed by the Boston Red Sox. What are some differences between Japan and MLB? Let’s discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:07.0	Here you go.
0:15.2	Two thirty two, nothing personal number of the day went with the number because if you
0:22.0	weren't paying attention, NFL free agency started NFL free agency.
0:25.9	It's pretty cool.
0:27.5	So it's not like baseball, wearing baseball free agency, free agency happens.
0:32.9	There's maybe a no, not no news today.
0:37.0	Oh, a bullpen guy signed a bullpen guy signed.
0:40.0	Yeah, nothing after that.
0:41.6	Well, we're waiting.
0:42.6	We're waiting at spring training time.
0:44.1	But it's almost spring training.
0:45.7	We got a few guys.
0:46.7	Oh, the all unsigned team.
0:49.2	It sort of goes to a crawl NBA does it well when free agency starts except it's all not
0:55.2	exciting because the players have already given indications where they're going.
1:00.8	Once in a while, there's a decision like a LeBron or a question as to what'll happen to
1:06.9	Kui.
1:08.3	And then he goes to the Clippers, but pretty much the NBA players are happy to forecast
1:13.8	what they're doing.
1:14.8	NFL free agency starts and it is absolute balls to the wall.
1:19.0	It is action packed.
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