Gruden v. NFL, Kroenke v. St. Louis, and expectations of pre-MLB lockout free agency spree (11/15)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘justification’ as in justified as in Jon Gurden is suing the NFL after being fired by the Las Vegas Raiders for emails that were leaked. The statement released by Gruden’s attorney alleges that there was no explanation or justification for why Gruden’s emails were the only of the 650,000 emails leaked. Did we think this was going to happen? Nope. Is it a major surprise? Yup. Let’s talk about what happens next. (18:45) Stan Kroenke is the owner of the Los Angeles Rams and he’s going to need to open up his check book for St. Louis. He offered $100M to settle. They said no. What about $150M? No. What about $200M? Maybe. (29:15) Review: Red Notice. (31:45) The Detroit Tigers have landed Eduardo Rodriguez on a 5-year, $77M deal. The Boston Red Sox offered him the qualifying offer and he turned it down. Was this a mistake by the Red Sox? (38:40) Why would players sign before a lockout? Are we going to see the run of shortstops sign big deals in the next few weeks? The CBA is about to expire! (44:15) NPPOD (45:50) Rookie of the Year picks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.7	Justification. Nothing personal. Word of the day. It's Monday, November 15th,
0:55.3	2021. Hope everyone had a good weekend because we're back.
1:00.6	You are justified in listening to this show today because we're going to talk about some lawsuits.
1:05.6	Lossuits are good, right? Every time you feel you've been wronged, you can use the legal
1:12.4	system to write yourself. It doesn't always work though. And if you don't have deep enough
1:17.4	pockets, you're not going to win anyway. But it's worth trying. Justification is what you think you
1:23.2	need in order to file a lawsuit. John Gruden, the coach, erstwhile coach of the erstwhile
1:29.8	Oakland Raiders. That's a double erstwhile on a random Monday morning.
1:35.1	File the lawsuit against the NFL and Roger Gidell. This past weekend, I want to tell you what
1:43.5	happens when you have a lawsuit file the answer you get served. So someone come come and knock on my
1:50.1	door. I've been waiting for you. That's a 1970s and 80s TV reference cocoa just in case. By the
1:58.1	way, cocoa is back. He was on a one day sabbatical. I got a bunch of DMs at David P. Samson.
2:07.1	People actually thinking that cocoa had resigned because the dolphins beat the Ravens.
2:12.6	Coco can't get enough of all of you and nothing personal. He would never resign.
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