How the Diamondbacks and Rangers prepare for the World Series!; Craig Counsell to the Mets?; The Chicago Bulls hold players-only meeting after Game 1!?!? (Episode 919)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Talk to Samson here: davidsamsonpodcast.com Today’s word of the day is ‘36 hours’ as in the World Series as in first pitch as in final preparations as in what are the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers doing. Let’s discuss how teams plan for Game 1. What are the nerves like? What are the players and coaches doing? (13:20) Is Craig Counsell to the Mets a lock? We all saw it coming when David Stearns got the Mets job. Interesting. (19:00) What about the Brewers? They need a new manager. And now they need a stadium bill to pass. Oh boy! (30:00) Review: Savior Complex. (38:10) The NBA season started for most teams last night. 1 game. That’s it. And the Bulls lost. No big deal right… wrong! The Chicago Bulls already held a player-only meeting! (43:00) The NBA All-Star Game is reversing course and going back to a standard format. No more draft. No more Elam Ending. It’s East vs. West. (45:20) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go, here you go.
0:07.0	36 hours, that's enough in personal word of the day.
0:19.0	It is Thursday, October 26, 2023, and we are 36 hours away from first pitch of the World
0:28.2	Series of 2023.
0:32.0	We also happen to be 20 years past the day after the World Series.
0:38.5	So I've been thinking about the difference between the day before the World Series and
0:42.0	the day after the World Series when you're a winner.
0:46.1	A couple of things came to my head.
0:49.4	Starting with the night of the World Series, we all went back to the team hotel and went
0:56.7	into the GM Larry Buying Fest, went into his suite, and Jack McKee and the manager
1:02.2	was there, and we were sitting around watching SportsCenter on loop.
1:08.9	Back then, SportsCenter was on loop, and we were watching the celebration and the interviews,
1:15.6	and we were just having drinks and talking, and we were all in bath robes.
1:20.4	Then the next morning, and we went to bed at 3-4 o'clock, wake up the next morning,
1:26.3	and there was an itinerary that was under each of our doors from the traveling secretary
1:30.4	because we were flying back to Fort Lauderdale.
1:34.3	And that's where we flew.
1:35.3	There was a charter at that time named Miami Air.
1:38.4	So we get on the team bus from the hotel on 42nd in Lexington, New York.
1:43.1	It was the high at the time, I think it may still be.
1:46.4	And we get on the bus, and it is, it's mayhem on the bus.
1:51.4	Not because it's very loud.
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