Freddie Freeman Drama: NO CHANCE agent withheld offer from Braves; Rays owner sued by limited partners; MLB Anti-trust exemption and minor league future (Episode 626)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘disclosure’ as in hidden as in Freddie Freeman as in a report came out last night that Freddie Freeman’s agent Casey Close had withheld the Atlanta Braves last offer to Freeman. Just insanity. There is no way this happened. There is no way Alex Anthopolous wouldn’t reach out to Freeman. There is no way any of the Braves wouldn’t have reached out to Freeman. So what is going on here? (16:15) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Tampa Bay Rays owner being sued again by his limited partners. You wanted to know if Stu Sternberg would be forced to sell. Hmmmmm. (32:35) Review: Leave No Trace. (37:35) NPPOD. (38:35) James Harden opted out of his $47M option. Why did he do this? The Sixers are going to pay him more money. Very simple. (42:20) What is the MLB Anti-Trust Exemption? What makes it so important? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we are, the upper jump!
0:01.5	What a punch!
0:02.5	Heavyweight champ Tyson Fury is back on Beatty Sport Box Office
0:07.0	for another all-Pretty Sportbuster.
0:09.2	I am the Gypsy King.
0:11.0	With a unification fight looming against BUSIC,
0:13.7	Old Rival Derek Chisoura provides the final test.
0:17.0	Wash me take the crown from the Gypsy King.
0:19.0	Watch all this and more Saturday exclusively live on Beatty Sport Box Office.
0:24.6	I'm knocking Chisoura into retirement.
1:24.6	Let me take a minute and try to frame the issue here because everyone's going crazy about this.
1:29.6	They're looking for Casey Close's head and Casey Close is no friend of mine.
1:34.6	Equatance, he was Derek Chisoura's agent.
1:37.6	He is a very successful agent who has a lot of big name players.
1:42.6	And his reputation is being impugned all over the globe because there was a tweet by someone saying that actually
1:53.6	believe it or not, it's almost crazy to say, right, when I tell you how things really work.
1:58.6	But it's crazy to say that Casey Close never told Freddie Freeman about the Braves final offer.
2:06.6	Freddie Freeman found out only now that the Braves made a final offer and then he said,
2:14.6	oh my god, how could you not have told me you're fired?
2:17.6	Because word had come out that Freddie Freeman has moved on from his agent.
2:21.6	So now let me step back to winning a World Series as a pending free agent.
2:28.6	You celebrate, you go to the parade, then five days after the World Series, you are free to talk to anyone.
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