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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Chris Sale has found his groove in Atlanta! Cole & Senga updates! Why is Fanatics suing Marvin Harrison Jr!? (Episode 1056)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’aces wild’ as starting pitchers as in aces as in top of rotation guys as in Chris Sale as in Gerrit Cole as in Kodai Senga. Let’s give some health updates! We’ll start with Chris Sale. He has been lights out these past few weeks. Hasn’t given up a run in 20 straight innings. Past 5 starts have been close to perfect. (14:45) Gerrit Cole is still on the IL. He’s trying to find his way back from an elbow issue. (17:46) Kodai Senga had a setback. Last week it was mechanics. This week it’s a setback. (21:30) David Fletcher, welcome to the Mizuhara club. The former Angels 2B was caught up in the same illegal gambling ring that Ippei Mizuhara was. (32:30) Review: Arthur The King. (36:14) NPPOD. (41:36) Fanatics is suing Marvin Harrison Jr. Why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

0:03.0

go.

0:04.0

go. Aces is wild. That's nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday, May 21st,

0:21.5

2004. I'm referring not to the Las Vegas Aces, but instead to pitching Aces, top of the rotation guys.

0:32.4

People who everyone spends tons of time debating and talking about

0:36.4

and giving you lists and trying to predict who are the best pitchers.

0:41.4

We've got the top 100

0:43.8

Top 100 prospects.

0:46.2

We've got aces of every team.

0:49.0

Producers everywhere, content creators everywhere, are big into lists. I like my movie list,

0:56.3

and occasional winners or losers list. The Aces list is something that I want to

1:02.0

bring to your attention today because baseball is a really

1:07.0

hard sport and finding executives who can put teams together who are better than the average fan or the

1:17.4

average scout or player development person it's really hard to do.

1:23.3

And this is not me making a,

1:26.2

any sort of case that I was better at it than anybody else

1:29.6

was not, although I had great continuity in my GM's way better than in managers.

1:36.0

One of the stories and I want to bring it back so for this part of the show you keep it in your mind

1:42.4

which is what makes somebody better is not telling me to sign

1:48.7

show hey oh tani what makes someone better is telling me to start Javier Assad if you're the Cubs?

1:57.5

What makes someone better is telling me that, hey, Lopez, he is going to perform this year we are going to put him in the rotation

2:06.9

and keep him there what makes someone better is saying let's take on Chris sale

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