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Nothing Personal with David Samson

EVERYTHING you need to know about Houston Astros punishment (1/13)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'grandiloquent' so let me explain what that means (0:06). Wow! Wow! Wow! MLB handed down a historic punishment on the Houston Astros about 2 minutes before I recorded this. Let's go step by step and talk about everything Rob Manfred had to say. This whole podcast is dedicated to Jeff Lunhow, AJ Hinch, and Jim Crane. There will be more and more details released on what's happening so be sure to follow me on Twitter @ DavidPSamson. Will this impact the Astros in 2020 or do I think they're still contenders? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go. Here you go.

0:07.6

Grand Iliquins. That's a nothing personal word of the day for this Monday Grand Iliquins.

0:12.9

What does that mean? You might be asking. It's when people speak or write for the sole purpose

0:18.7

of trying to impress. Does that sound familiar? How about looking around at all the people

0:24.1

on the air, all the gas bags who spend time giving their opinion on stuff that they actually

0:29.1

don't know about or giving an opinion they don't actually believe for the sole purpose

0:33.9

of making a statement for the sole purpose of having controversy. It makes me crazy. I

0:40.3

spent an entire weekend thinking about this and thinking about how I want to and want

0:44.7

nothing personal to be different. If you ever think I'm being grand eloquent, you're

0:50.0

going to tweet at me, you'll DM me because I'm giving it to you how it is. I'm not doing

0:54.6

it to grandstand. I'm not trying to impress you with vocabulary or with points of view.

1:00.0

I'm actually trying to just let you know the facts of life in sports and business and politics

1:06.8

and entertainment. We are looking at history today. Right now, Major League Baseball has

1:16.6

done something unprecedented and it all started very simply with a bat and with a garbage

1:27.7

can. I never heard it when I was with the Marlins. That's what the Astros did and that's

1:36.0

all they did. Let me tell you what's really happening right now. Breaking news. Jeff

1:41.8

Luna, the president of baseball operations suspended for a full year, AJ Hinch, the manager,

1:50.8

the manager of the Astros suspended for a full year, $5 million fine. Who cares? Losses

1:59.4

of first and second round picks in 2021. Not great, but the real story here is Jeff Luna

2:07.6

and AJ Hinch. Why did Rob Manford do this? He was losing control of this story. Word came

2:16.1

out that the Red Sox were doing it as well. Cody Belinger comes out and says the Dodgers

2:22.2

may have lost the World Series simply because the Astros were cheating by hitting a garbage

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