College Football Playoff leaves FSU at home because... SEC means more; Latest on Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto! (Episode 945)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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MERCH SALE: https://davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop/ Today’s word of the day is ‘musical chairs’ as in someone is in when the music stops but someone is also out. Let’s look at the College Football Playoff. Florida State did everything it needed to to get in… and they were left out. Alabama the brand name gets the final spot. Why? Because it’s a TV product! (15:45) We have the MLB Winter Meetings! Trades are happening! Mariners trade! Are we now on Ohtani Watch? $600M bidding war!? (29:20) Soto stalemate? Do the Yankees not want to up the trade? Are the Padres asking for too much? (35:45) Review: The Holdovers. (38:25) Eagles and Niners was a thrashing. The Niners took out some revenge on the Eagles. But the bigger story was a scuffle on the sidelines! (45:00) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go. go. musical chairs.
0:15.0	that's nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.0	It is Monday, December 4th, 200323, musical chairs the great kids game where you play music and somebody is left when the music stops with nowhere to sit, they bow their head down and they leave the game.
0:36.8	The Florida State University football team is not going to play for the national championship.
0:46.6	And the world stops spinning on its axis.
0:50.2	People from alums to commentators to athletic directors to presidents to the Florida
0:58.8	fricking legislature had an opinion of how FSU got completely screwed.
1:08.6	And you know from nothing personal, I like college football sort of, watch it. I'll watch the bowl games don't really pay attention or watch I should say during the course of the season. I was interested this year because CBS as you, my relationship with CBS Sports HQ and CBS Sports, I was very aware
1:27.2	that the SEC was finishing its broadcast deal, its 25-year deal with CBS and moving to ESPN next season and the SEC is a very big deal at
1:39.3	CBS it was a big relationship very large amount of money changing hands.
1:45.0	And the SEC let it expire and then went with the ESPN.
1:49.7	And the ESPN also shows the CFP, which this year is the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl.
1:57.0	So I'm thinking to myself during the Saturday games, which interested me with the conference
2:02.1	championships,
2:03.4	and I'm seeing Alabama and Georgia.
2:06.3	Georgia was favored to win the SEC.
2:08.7	The SEC is one of the Power Five conferences,
2:11.3	but it is the top of the Power Five conferences, but it is the top of the Power Five conferences.
2:15.1	It is a huge, huge, billion dollar business.
2:21.4	And I'm watching Alabama win and I'm looking on Twitter and I'm speaking to
2:26.2	Koca and I'm speaking to some people I was with this weekend, one of whom is a
2:31.9	FSU alum and it's occurring to me that if Alabama ends up winning
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