Bonus Pod: From Celebrity Fans to Marlins Man - How we deal with fans (7/3)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode David talks all things fans. From what it will be like to play without them this season to what it's like dealing with them. He'll also talk the start of Marlins Man and his negotiation battle for Ken Griffey Jr's 600 home run ball with a fan. Did he win that battle? #waittosee --------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	There you go. There you go.
0:07.0	Fan. There's nothing personal word of the day is fan.
0:11.0	Not what's above your head, not what you use in your hand.
0:14.0	I'm talking fan as in fans.
0:19.0	The people who make the sports world go round and round.
0:23.0	Fans have been the center of everybody's attention
0:27.0	since COVID-19 reared its ugly viral head back in March.
0:34.0	The possibility of games going on without fans was unthinkable.
0:39.0	And then it became reality.
0:43.0	Now sports is on its way back.
0:46.0	And it's almost become part of our nomenclature.
0:50.0	Sports, no fans. It's not even an expectation.
0:54.0	So I wanted to talk today about the role of the fan.
0:59.0	What fans mean to teams? What fans mean to players?
1:03.0	You listen to nothing personal and you would think that my only answer is that fans mean money.
1:10.0	Obviously that is only one part of the role of a fan.
1:14.0	And what a fan means to people, executives.
1:19.0	But fans don't mean money to players.
1:22.0	Fan means experience to players.
1:27.0	Wait. You know what?
1:29.0	Let's be completely honest about what fans mean to players too.
1:33.0	Fans mean business to players as well.
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