How badly did Tom Brady want Bruce Arians gone?; Why didn't MLB have something major planned for NOT Opening Day today? (Episode 567)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘consultant’ as in assistance as in Assistant to the Regional Manager as in Bruce Arians announced last night he would be stepping down as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to join the front office. Sure. Gotcha. So you’re saying Tom Brady returned to the Buccaneers and was okay with his coach stepping down this late? Or was this planned the whole time? Hmm… (12:25) Today was supposed to be MLB’s Opening Day, until it wasn’t. Why didn’t MLB plan anything big for today to make up for the fact that it’s been delayed a full week? Are we just supposed to pretend it never happened? Or is Home Run Derby X the new big thing? HA. Cmon, man! What is Rob Manfred up to? He needs to rehab his relationship with the players and he’s trying to do that. (23:50) Quick story on the Nationals spring training games. They were shelled by the Cardinals. But this part is important. (28:50) Review: Windfall. (33:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? So Meta (formerly Facebook) is coming after TikTok, hard. They spent BIG money on a conservative lobbying firm to try and hurt TikTok in Washington D.C. (42:10) NPPOD. (44:55) Wait to see: Is Tiger Woods returning to the Masters? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.8	Consultant. Nothing personal word of the day.
0:52.8	Final day of the first quarter of 2022. It is March 31st.
0:59.0	And the word is consultant. What news yesterday?
1:03.0	It sort of rocked me a little bit.
1:05.2	Bruce Ariens, the Super Bowl winning coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1:10.8	The team that is once again going to be favorite to win a Super Bowl,
1:14.6	because Tom Brady, their quarterback, has unretired after a huge long multi-year
1:22.7	retirement. I think he was out of the game for seven or eight years.
1:27.1	And he was coming back this year to try to win a Super Bowl, reuniting with his coach,
1:32.1	with whom he won a Super Bowl only two years ago.
1:35.9	And Bruce Ariens released a document saying, he is becoming the senior, wait for it,
1:43.2	football. Here it is, consultant to the general manager.
1:47.0	He then released a long, long statement saying, I'm healthy.
1:53.4	Don't say, I'm not healthy. This was my decision. Don't say it wasn't.
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