College Football Playoff committee does whatever it wants! Blake Snell introduced by Dodgers! Juan Soto market hits $600 MILLION! (Episode 1179)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘farce’ as in the CFP selection committee as in the College Football Playoff as in Miami as in Alabama as in 12 teams as in circus. It doesn’t matter how many teams, someone will be left out. This time it’s Miami. Let’s talk about the committees job and what they chose to do. (13:40) Blake Snell was introduced as the Dodgers latest signing and guess who was sitting up there? Yup, Scott Boras! And we have to discuss some of the things that Andrew Friedman had to say about the team. (21:10) The Juan Soto sweepstakes are heating up. It could be close to decision time. Here we go. The offers come with a minimum price tag of $600 million! (33:40) Review: Kinds of Kindness. (36:20) Azeez Al-Shaair of the Texans has been suspended for 3 games for his hit on Trevor Lawrence. The Texans are FURIOUS. (46:10) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.3	Does the house always win? Find out, as Booky returns for season two, season one was amazing, by the way,
0:22.1	December 12th on Max.
0:24.2	Please watch responsibly.
0:27.4	Here you go.
0:30.1	Here you go. Farse.
0:43.8	That's nothing personal word of the day.
0:45.9	It is Wednesday, December 4th, 2004.
0:50.5	And I'm talking about the CFP selection committee.
0:54.5	Let's talk some college football right out of the gate because I'm talking about the CFP selection committee. Let's talk some college football right out of the gate because I was fascinated to watch
1:00.7	this season unfold after all of the back and forth and the debate and the articles that
1:07.3	we've read about this new 12-te team playoff, how there was expansion and people
1:13.4	were forward and against it. We don't want to go to 12. Let's go to 16. Let's stay at four.
1:19.0	How about eight? And we told you, and I remember part of this show, when it became 12,
1:25.2	that there'd always be a 13th.
1:34.9	Whether it's four and there's always a fifth, the feeling of exclusion exists no matter the size of the tournament.
1:42.0	You do not take away that by doing play-in games, by adding rounds.
1:47.1	It doesn't matter because whenever there is a cutoff, you've got people on the wrong side of the cutoff. The NCAA men's college tournament, they do these play in games
1:52.3	now. You can be the 12 seed and there's an extra 14. So it's 68 instead of 64. But then the 69th team
1:59.3	smiles, but they don't get to be in the tournament.
2:04.7	So every week, there is an agreement, and I know about this from my work that I do at another
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