Blue Jays have the Yankees on the ropes! Mariners finally get a home playoff win! (Episode 1361 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘moral victory’ as in the postseason as in the Yankees as in the Blue Jays as in beatdown! The Blue Jays crushed the Yankees in Game 1. The Blue Jays crushed the Yankees in Game 2. Vlad Guerrero Jr. is having a series to remember. The Yankees pitchers are having a series to forget. (19:10) The Mariners were able to tie up the series by getting the win through Tarik Skubal. Wow. Good for them. The Tigers were able to steal Game 1. The Tigers have found a way to comeback late, but can they keep that up? (24:00) The Brewers crushed the Cubs in Game 1. A 9-3 after putting up six runs in the first inning. Do you think the Brewers were ready for that game? (29:00) The Phillies blew it in Game 1 agains the Dodgers. Ohtani had a great start on the mound, not great at the plate. Roki Sasaki is back and he’s throwing 100! (33:00) Review: Bad Shabbos. (36:00) The Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy spoke about the future of MLB media. He’s a big fan of the centralized TV rights deal. (46:00) What is going on with Perry Minasian and the Angels? Disaster. Just a disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Moral victory, that is the nothing personal pick of the day for Monday.
0:45.1	Thank you, Coca.
0:46.9	Let's go now.
0:48.7	4869.
0:51.2	Moral victory, that's the nothing personal word of the day for Monday, October 6, 2025.
0:58.7	Let's catch up on what happened over the weekend because last week I promised that I would tell you
1:05.8	everything that was going on when I could, when it was. And moral victories are something that in sports I am not a fan of.
1:14.5	I've told you that.
1:15.7	The Yankees did not get a moral victory by scoring seven runs in the late innings of a
1:22.2	blowout game last night.
1:25.4	Yesterday afternoon, whenever the Yankees lost the Blue Jays and the Blue Jays took that
1:30.4	commanding 2-0 lead by crushing the Yankees 13 to 7.
1:35.1	Moral victories are not when you have to make the closer of the other team at least think
1:41.5	about getting up, if not get up and get hot and get in or high
1:45.3	leverage relievers have to come in when it's an 11 run game in a short series. It's what we
1:52.5	liked to tell you. It's what we would do in our post game analysis when we'd meet the media,
1:59.6	when we would talk about what a moral
2:02.5	victory was, except I wouldn't use the word because it's a word that's ridiculous.
2:08.9	There's no moral victory in being down to nothing, especially when you know when you're down
2:14.1	two nothing in a short series, you're going to lose the series over 91%
2:18.8	of the time. So forget that. Obviously, you'd rather get the opposing team to be in more
2:26.4	leveraged situations. The opposing team's bullpen when the whole game was not a leveraged
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