FIFA president can try all he wants to keep politics away from World Cup; Zach Wilson is not what the Jets need; Giannis postgame incident (Episode 700)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’infantile’ as in infant as in child as in baby as in Gianni Infantino has done nothing worthy of being the leader he’s supposed to be. Infantino defended the decision to have the World Cup in Qatar. He has defended his decision to not allow LGBTQ+ armbands. He has defended everything in the name of no politics in sports. Sure… (17:30) Yesterday the Jets lost in devastating fashion. Zach Wilson played a terrible football game against the Patriots. How does Robert Saleh feel about Wilson’s comments after the game? (28:55) Review: Elton John at Dodger Stadium. (34:35) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the rules for visiting teams practicing on home floors after games. This stems from the Giannis Antetokounmpo incident with the 76ers. (44:35) Kyrie Irving has returned for the Nets. (49:20) NPPOD. I got a record player and life is good! Music just sounds better and it's been so relaxing. COOL! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Infin Tile. Nothing personal word of the day. It is Monday, November 21st, 2022. And we are
0:28.2	in the world cup. I don't know about knee deep. There's been one game, but we watched it.
0:35.2	We said we weren't going to watch it. We watched it. We've got a full slate of games today,
0:40.0	starting right now with England and Iran. And the world cup has been surrounded by political
0:47.1	issues since it was announced over a decade ago. And nothing has really gotten better.
0:54.8	It's just a matter of how it's being discussed, who's discussing it and what they're discussing.
1:00.3	And the prayer of FIFA was that once the kickoff happens, like the first kickoff, then that
1:08.0	would be it. Everything would magically disappear. I'm not sure it's going to actually work that
1:13.2	way. So the president of FIFA in an effort to wish that into existence, met the media
1:22.3	before the first match, which cutter the home team, the host nation lost Ecuador, by the way.
1:30.8	And he met the media and what he said struck me and I think will strike you as very bizarre
1:39.7	and so defensive and so irrational that you would mistaken him for an American politician.
1:48.4	When you're the president of FIFA, no doubt you're a politician, much like when you're the commissioner
1:54.1	of a sport here in the US, you are a politician. And once in a while, politicians have to make
2:00.8	political speeches. Raj Gaudal had a deal with the Colin Kaepernick Nealine issue. Rob
2:07.1	Manfred had a pulling all-star game out of Atlanta. They all had a navigate through COVID,
2:12.4	navigate through shutdowns, figure things out on the fly. That's what you get paid for.
2:17.3	The president of FIFA gets paid for deciding where the world cup is going to be among other things,
2:23.6	but I digress. So he meets the media and he's been living in Qatar for about a year. It's reported.
2:31.6	I guess he wanted to make sure that enough workers were being treated well and that all the stadiums
2:36.9	were ready and he was getting all excited for this month-long hosting mission. And so he meets
2:43.9	the media now. Keep in mind he's taking over for one of the most infamous and we talked about it
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