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Nothing Personal with David Samson

FINAL NPDS OF 2021! ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS! Carlos Correa, Cubs "mutual interest"; Blank Hall of Fame Ballots (12/24)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘mutual’ as in reciprocal as in connected as in bilateral as in Carlos Correa and the Chicago Cubs reportedly have mutual interest. So the Cubs didn’t want to re-sign Bryant or Baez or Rizzo, but they want to pay $300M+ for Correa. Okay, sure. (8:20) Cody Bellinger and the Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a one-year, $17M deal. How was it announced after December 1st in a lockout? Hmmmm. (14:20) Former MLB columnist Michael Hunt has not voted for a baseball player to the Hall of Fame for the 2nd consecutive year in a row. Two years ago he only voted for Derek Jeter. Is this fair? (25:15) The Gator Bowl will go on. Rutgers has accepted the bid to play against Wake Forest. (29:45) Review: Belfast. (33:45) NPPOD. (39:20) Peloton, Chris Noth, Sex in the City update. (45:55) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about handling and dealing with insomnia. Let’s get personal to end the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:50.3

Mutual. Nothing personal word of the day for Friday.

0:55.3

December 24th, 2021 is mutual. My favorite word.

1:01.2

I think if I had to do a top five favorite words, I'd probably have deleterious.

1:05.3

I'd have diminimists. That's 2D words. Mutual would certainly be, it's not on the podium,

1:10.4

but it's a top five. In sports, mutuality. Mutuality of interest.

1:17.0

Writers like saying that because executives like giving that to the writers.

1:20.8

And agents do too. We've got interest in that team. And that team has interest.

1:27.0

In that player, there's mutual interest in that player.

1:31.3

Is that important? Think about this. Do players only sign for agent contracts

1:36.1

after there's been mutual interest? Does there have to be mutual interest?

1:40.0

Here's a shocking note, folks. There does not.

1:46.0

If you offer a player an amount of money that the agent calls you and says,

1:49.6

I know you're not going to do this. But if you go three years, $7 million a year,

1:54.4

he's going to be a Marlin. John Buck will be a Marlin. He's not interested in the Marlins,

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