Cody Bellinger signs short-term with Cubs: Did Boras or Cubs blink first?; Athletics update! It's time to ban court-storming! (Episode 998)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It's David's birthday! Everyone go wish him a happy birthday! And celebrate with a piece of cake for yourself! (calories don't count for birthday cake!) Today’s word of the day is ‘blinked’ as in Scott Boras as in the Chicago Cubs as in Cody Bellinger. It finally happened. Cody Bellinger has signed a deal. It’s not the longterm deal most people thought he’d get. Who won this standoff? What’s next for the Boras Boys? (11:20) Let me talk about my weekend and the Challenged Athletes Foundation. (19:05) It’s time for an A’s update! (30:30) Review: American Fiction. (34:00) We need to put an end to court-storming. Enough is enough. (40:00) NPPOD. Miami Heat and New Orleans Pelicans suspensions for a fight! The drama! (43:45) Steve Kerr got an extension. Big money. Matches up the years with Curry. End of an era? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	go. go. Blinked! That's the nothing personal word of the day for Monday, February 26th, 1968, blinked, as in who blinked, Scott Boris or the Chicago Cubs.
1:01.6	I was away this weekend in San Diego. I'm going to talk about the
1:05.0	weekend and I want to mention a few things that happened that were funny this
1:08.8	weekend. But when the news came in about what happened with Cody Bellinger, the first thought, given how crazy
1:16.2	I can be, was, oh, that's one of the four players who didn't get a one-year deal, plus an opt-out,
1:21.9	after one, because that is a way to see that I have.
1:26.3	I thought it would be one year plus one with the app that after one. I have one of four
1:31.1	Boris guys getting that deal.
1:33.0	All of a sudden I get the alerts that Bellinger is off the board
1:36.8	with a three-year $80 million deal.
1:40.6	My second thought after saying,
1:43.0	all right, I still have three players left
1:44.8	to get the way to see right, is, oh, Boris just did a Korea deal.
1:50.3	He got a team to give a three-year deal to his player with an opt-out after the first year
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