How good did the Yankees get with Carlos Rodon?; Trade Losers: Red Sox DFA Downs, don't blame Chaim Bloom! I was SO WRONG about Zion (Episode 718)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’New York New York!” as in Frank Sinatra as in the New York Yankees as in the New York Mets as in how much money is going to be spent trying to win a World Series? The Yankees got Carlos Rodon. Breaking news. Fire up the hype machine. The Yankees finally got some more top level starting pitching. (14:00) The Boson Red Sox DFA’d Jeter Downs. Why is that an important name? He’s the guy that the Red Sox got for trading Mookie Betts to the Dodgers. Teams have bad trades. Happens all the time. It wasn’t just me! (27:30) Review: Harry & Meghan. (34:40) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me If I should rethink my position on Zion Williamson. Yes, it’s time to admit I was wrong. (42:00) NPPOD. It's Friday! We did it again! Even if you thought you couldn't make it through the week... here we are! Time to relax. Time to have some fun. Time for the weekend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.1	It's up to you, New York, New York. My favorite song played after we won the World Series
1:05.9	right at Yankee Stadium. They still play at Winter Lose. Good old Frankie Sinatra. New York,
1:11.2	New York is the nothing personal word of the day because today is Friday, December 16, 2022.
1:17.5	Not that's not why. It's because we're talking Yankees. All right, Yankee fans, turn up the volume.
1:24.2	Here we go. You last night, you may be aware, I assume you are a fury Yankee fan.
1:30.8	You added a picture to your rotation, a starting picture to your rotation. After a year of me yelling
1:37.3	at the top of my lungs, standing on a hill, standing on my platform shoes, the Yankees need more
1:43.9	pitching if they're going to get through October. They went out to the free agent market and signed
1:49.3	Carlos Rodón for $162 million over six years. Carlos Rodón will be making $27 million a year,
2:01.6	Garrett Cole will be making $36 million a year. Rodón will be second in the rotation,
2:08.8	pitching game twos in the playoffs for everything lines up perfectly. You move Nester Cortez,
2:13.7	down, you move Severino down, you move Montaust down, you've got depth with Hermann, depth with
2:22.9	Schmidt. It's always good to add starting pitching in free agency. What's the worst that could happen?
2:33.9	The worst that could happen is that he underperforms. You can't count on him. He's hurt.
2:41.3	He's not as good as he's been the last two years when he was an All-Star. Stop with the All-Star
2:47.3	Horosaki comments to me, please. Anyone can be an All-Star and Major League Baseball because half
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