Holiday Season is here and everyone wants a new stadium: Kansas City, New York City FC, Bears, Bills! MLB Free Agency Update! (Episode 697)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’pothole’ as in the hole in the street that gets fixed and comes back and fixed and comes back and fixed and comes back — but why are we talking about that today? That’s what sports stadiums are. Every few years a new stadium pops up. Just like a pothole. You build one and then you build another and then another and then another. The Kansas City Royals made an announcement. New York City FC announced a huge stadium. The Bears want one. The Bills want one. (16:30) We have our daily MLB Free Agency Update: players were added to 40-man rosters for protection. Let’s explain. Players also turned down or signed qualifying offers OR signed new deals. (26:40) Review: Ticket to Paradise. (29:30) Quick talk about the TV Ratings. How big is Yellowstone? How big is MLB? How big is NBA? The answer: not close to how big the NFL is. (33:30) It’s time to talk about what the Boston Bruins have done. They hired Loretta Lynch to launch an investigation into how the team investigates investigations. (44:00) NPPOD. I'm tired today. The weather outside is terrible. But! We'll make the best of it! You should too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	bad
0:02.0	hole is the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, November 16, 2022.
0:26.7	Not the thing on the street but on the highway when you're driving and they fill it and
0:33.1	then you get a hole again and then you have to refill it.
0:36.9	Potholes represent picture driving down the highway and every time you hit a pothole
0:42.2	you are driving over an Old Stadium and then they fill it with a new Stadium.
0:50.2	I always viewed stadiums as potholes because it never ends, it's
0:54.7	the interminable issue that we all have,
0:58.4	it keeps people working.
0:59.5	It's an economic driver not to permanently fill pot holes
1:02.7	because you need pot holes to be created by bad weather
1:06.0	or wear and tear because then people get to work
1:08.9	and make money and make a living wage in theory
1:11.5	and then fill the pot holes.
1:13.7	There is no end to the quote unquote new stadium cycle.
1:20.6	People make a very large mistake when they say,
1:23.5	hey, in baseball, the Tampa Bay rays and the Oakland A
1:27.9	is they are the last two teams to get a new stadium.
1:32.6	I always explain that they're the last two teams
1:34.9	of this wave of new stadium,
1:37.8	but the minute that's done, there's gonna be the next wave
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