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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Did the Baseball Hall of Fame get it right?; MLB Lockout Update to the Update! (Episode 526)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘controversy’ as in people are going crazy as in that could be about everything, but today it’s about the Baseball Hall of Fame. David Ortiz is in. Barry bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling… see ya. Alex Rodriguez only got about 30% of the vote. Let’s discuss the voting and the Hall. Danger danger danger. (23:10) We have another lockout update! Can you believe it!? Back to back days of MLB owners meeting with MLBPA. Let’s discuss what they talked about this time. (36:35) Review: Dangerous. (41:15) NPPOD. (43:10) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about Sean Payton quitting as the New Orleans Saints head coach. Payton says he wants to take a year off. Maybe talk on TV. Maybe coach a year later. Hilarious.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.6

Controversy. Nothing personal. Word of the day for Wednesday, January 26th,

0:55.2

2022 is controversy. The Hall of Fame made its announcement and people are going crazy.

1:03.2

I think that's where we are in the world where if you have an opinion that is different

1:07.2

than someone else's opinion, that person's totally wrong. There can be no reason behind their

1:13.3

thought process. That is the political divide we are in. That is the sports divide. It didn't

1:18.7

use to be that way. We used to be able to have conversations about topics that were interesting.

1:23.6

We used to have something. I'm trying to remember the course I took in high school.

1:28.4

Oh yeah, debate where you can actually try to convince someone that your point of view

1:35.2

or your argument is correct and you are open to be convinced that their point of view

1:41.4

and their side is correct. Controversies, what happens when people make decisions that you don't

1:48.4

agree with and you say, oh, we're having a controversy here. Hall of Fame voted in David Ortiz

1:54.7

of the Boston Red Sox. The former non-tender of the Minnesota twins, Coco, I'm so happy

2:00.8

that I never non-tender to player who is going to be a Hall of Famer because talk about a career

2:07.2

ending mistake. I've traded a bunch of guys who ended up being great, traded away players who

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