Hey now, you're an All Star, but are you a DOUBLE All Star? Shohei Ohtani is (7/5)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘generational’ as in Shohei Ohtani has been called a generational talent as in he is the first player ever to be voted a pitcher AND hitter in the All Star Game. Let’s talk about selections and elections and how these things work. Trout is an All-Star? deGrom isn’t pitching? Every team gets a player in!? (15:20) NPPOD. (20:10) The New York Yankees had a players-only meeting led by Aaron Judge. How’d that work out? Lost 2 of 3 to the New York Mets at home. Gerrit Cole can’t pitch anymore. (32:00) Review: No Sudden Move. (36:35) The Milwaukee Bucks are in the NBA Finals. Will Giannis be available to play? That is the $40 million question. Should he play? That is the $225 million question. (42:50) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if the Miami Marlins threw at Ronald Acuna again on purpose. Let’s discuss. It’s the 6th time the Marlins have hit him and the 3rd time it was the first pitch of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:20.0	Generational. Nothing personal. Word of the day. Monday, July 5, 2021 is generational.
0:28.0	Hope everyone had a good July 4th yesterday. Spent time with generations, family, friends,
0:35.0	some fireworks. Hope there was no JPP situation. I think about that every July 4th. Imagine getting
0:42.0	that call as team president. Generational. I'm talking about Shohei O'Tani, though. This weekend had some
0:48.0	news with the All-Star game. The All-Star game in baseball is a pretty big deal. From an executive
0:53.0	standpoint, the reason it's a big deal is that we keep track of the amount of money that we have
0:59.0	to pay out to each player on our team who's named an All-Star because many contracts have bonus
1:06.0	provisions depending on whether you are selected or elected. They're different amounts. In almost
1:13.0	every contract we gave to our players. Selected to the All-Star game is when you are selected by the
1:22.0	players. That is Selected. Elected is when the fans elect you and you are a starter in the
1:29.0	All-Star game. We always wanted to give more money to players for bonuses who were elected
1:36.0	because that means the Marlins are doing something right. Both from marketing standpoint, from
1:41.0	a team standpoint, we have a popular player and there could be at least some possible economic
1:47.0	benefit to having our guys starting. Selected is fine, but you can be the Orioles and have
1:59.0	a player where the Marlins this year have a player, meaning last place teams get a player because in
2:05.0	baseball everybody gets a trophy. It's a rule that I fought against for years. I was
2:12.0	going to tell you why I fought against it before we talk about Shohei. The ruling baseball
2:19.0	is every single team gets a representative no matter what. Even if your player is not an All-Star,
2:27.0	even if you don't have one guy on your team who deserves to be an All-Star, your team gets
2:32.0	an All-Star. The theory behind it is that you are going to watch the All-Star game if you
2:38.0	are going to watch the All-Star game if you are the Marlins because Trevor Rogers is an All-Star.
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