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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Does the Baseball Hall of Fame voting need to change? (1/28)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘Cooperstown’ as in 2021 Hall of Fame voting as in nobody was voted into this year’s class. Let’s talk about this and what happened. Is Major League Baseball happy about this happening? No Barry Bonds, no Roger Clemens, no Curt Schilling. (11:13) Where do I stand on Curt Schilling? Will he ever get voted in now that he has feuded with the baseball writers? (21:25) J.T. Realmuto becomes the highest paid catcher of all time. Why did the Phillies pay a premium and was it worth it? (27:43) NPPOD. (31:15) Review - Pieces of a Woman. (36:30) Seahawks player Chad Wheeler has been charged with first degree domestic violence after almost beating his girlfriend to death. He was off his bipolar medication. It is a sickening story. One that needs to be talked about. #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sunday afternoon, the NFL, the visual playoffs on CDS features a matchup between two of the best young quarterbacks in the game

0:08.0

when Joe Burrow and the Banks take on Josh Allen's bid.

0:14.0

This is unbelievable. A trip to the AFC Championship is on the line.

0:18.0

We'll get your set for kickoff beginning at two Easter with JB and the guys on the NFL today.

0:23.0

The NFL, the visual playoffs presented by a two-it-turbo tax Sunday on CDS.

0:43.0

Cooper's town, nothing personal word of the day for January 28th, 2021 as Cooper's town should have been the word of the day yesterday.

0:51.0

It could not do a show yesterday. Yesterday was Wednesday.

0:56.0

This COVID thing, Koch, I'll tell you right now, you start feeling a little better and then you feel worse and then you get a little better.

1:03.0

You just have to really be careful. I really hope that whoever doesn't have it, go get the vaccine, wear a mask, take it seriously because it sucks.

1:11.0

Absolutely just sucks. So yesterday I was unable to do a show, but there was so much to talk about that we're carrying it forward and we're doing one today with the word of the day Cooper's town because two days ago.

1:24.0

The Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball made its announcement and I wanted to really talk about it because it's getting so much attention.

1:32.0

The story is not going away. I wanted to explain to you the role that Major League Baseball has with the baseball Hall of Fame.

1:41.0

The relationship that Major League Baseball has with the Hall of Fame, my reaction to what happened when the Hall of Fame made its announcement.

1:48.0

The fact that we knew was going to happen because we had a way to see that no one was going to be elected to the Hall of Fame and no one was in the class of 2021.

1:56.0

So we got that way to see right. And why I want to help you frame your view of who should and should not be in the Hall of Fame and why.

2:08.0

So let's just start.

2:11.0

It's very simple. There are committees of people, the Hall of Fame and Cooper's town of New York. It's a very pleasant town.

2:20.0

I've been there when Andre Dawson got inducted in 2010. It is a small town in the middle of nowhere.

2:28.0

You fly to Albany and then drive or you drive from New York City. And it is it is truly if you go to the middle of nowhere in New York State, make one left turn, one right turn and look for some baseball diamonds.

2:41.0

You will find Cooper's town. I never have understood why Hall of Fame is not located in big cities. When I was in Toronto and went to the hockey Hall of Fame, it just made all sorts of sense to me.

2:51.0

By the way, the hockey Hall of Fame, Coca is amazingly cool if you've never been there.

2:56.0

I've seen the actual Stanley Cup and all the interesting interesting exhibits in Toronto. But like the football Hall of Fame in Canton or the basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, these are not big places.

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