Hey NBA/MLB, the NFL doesn't care about your coronavirus concerns! (3/16)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'distancing' as in social distancing needs to be taken seriously if we want to combat the coronavirus (:06) ! Let's get you updated on the coronavirus: CDC says no large groups in public for the next 8 weeks (4:55). Here's what it means for sports. MLB isn't starting in April or May, maybe June, probably July (6:10). NBA has handled these things perfectly, but today Adam Silver slipped when the words 'financial damage' leaked (10:49). What the NFL chose to do today was shameful... it was tone deaf... the league should have held off for some time (13:35). Trevor Bauer felt like it was necessary to hold a Sandlot-style game to help 'grow the game' in the middle of a pandemic... why (17:33)? The NFL ratified its CBA over the weekend and the vote was way, way closer than I thought it would be (18:35). The UFC is out of its mind if they think they are going to have any more fights for the time being... Hey, Dana White stop it (21:55). Here are the Top 5 books to read (24:45) during quarantine: 5. Moneyball 4. The Natural 3. ???? 2. ??? 1. ??. So You Wanna Talk To Samson (31:00)!? Someone asked me how executives handle a crisis like this... who gets paid? who doesn't? What would I do if I was still with the Marlins...ANNOUNCING THE #MLBBEARDCHALLENGE !!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Distance scene.
0:08.0	The nothing personal word of the day.
0:10.9	Distance scene.
0:12.1	As in social distancing.
0:15.0	As in do you understand what that actually is?
0:18.2	That means please watch and listen to nothing personal.
0:21.6	But don't share a pair of headphones.
0:24.8	That means eating and drinking but not with other people in groups.
0:31.2	Don't take six people and go out to a bar.
0:34.5	But we didn't listen.
0:36.0	So then the government was forced to make decisions which they made locally, statewide and soon
0:42.6	federal.
0:43.9	The decisions that bars are going to close, restaurants are closed, only doing delivery
0:49.4	or to go.
0:51.6	We had a chance to control this and we missed it.
0:55.8	And the reason we missed it is that we believe we're free, we're a democracy, we're America.
1:01.2	Oh, it can't happen to us.
1:03.2	Oh, it won't happen to me.
1:05.3	You go macro, you make it micro.
1:07.8	As a country we said it won't happen to us and then it did.
1:11.4	Now as an individual you're saying, hey, it won't happen to me until it does.
1:16.7	And what happens when it does?
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