I wonder why Gronk came back... (4/22)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today's word of the day is 'gronk'd' as in the Buccaneers traded for Rob Gronkowski to team up with Tom Brady in Tampa. Here's how a trade for a retired player works and why it happened (0:06). The NFL virtual draft is taking place tomorrow so how are teams preparing? This is a very weird time, but let me walk you through how we would get ready for the draft (8:20). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if it's true that contraction of 42 teams is a done deal in minor league baseball (16:18). Is the NHL coming back in July? Well, Panthers president Matt Caldwell says there is a plan in place (23:45). Review - Gangs of New York (28:15). Corey Gauff cares more about money than his daughter Coco and made that clear by going public against his daughter's comments saying that she has never been diagnosed with depression. How pathetic of this father. Let me explain (31:35). MLBeard Challenge Day 38: Washington Wizards (38:16). Steve Kerr came out publicly refuting some things that Michael Jordan said during The Last Dance... will he be the last person to do so? #waittosee --------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:07.0	Grunked.
0:10.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day. Grunked. As in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers got
0:15.4	grunked yesterday. Yes, Rob Grunkowski, the champion of WWE 24-7 something. I think
0:22.8	he pinned someone and I think Vince McMahon made it. So Rob Grunkowski, they're retired,
0:28.4	great tied-in from the Ringland Patriots. Tom Brady's favorite target, retired young.
0:35.0	So that said I'm done, but we knew he wasn't. I think he was just done with the Patriots.
0:40.6	So Tom Brady ends up leaving the Patriots. He then moves on to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
0:47.4	And then all of a sudden rumors come out of nowhere that Rob Grunkowski is being traded
0:52.8	by the New England Patriots to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to be reunited with Tom Brady.
0:58.5	To which most people said, Rob Grunkowski wasn't free to sign with anybody. Why did he
1:03.5	have to get traded? Well, the way it works is when you retire, you go on the retired
1:09.1	list of a team. Otherwise, you're just a free agent and you're not really retired. That's
1:15.4	why sometimes you see that we resign a player just to have him retire as a member of our
1:20.4	team. We did that to Konaim, signed him to a one-day contract, Jeff Konaim. Then he
1:25.5	becomes on the Marlins retired list. That means if he ever wants to play, we have to take
1:30.9	him off the retired list. So he was still the property, if you will, of the New England
1:35.3	Patriots. So Rob Grunkowski calls up New England and says, hey, here's my thought. I'm not
1:43.0	planned for you. I'm going to stay retired. I'm going to keep wrestling. I'm going to keep
1:46.9	partying, except this whole social distancing thing has totally gotten the way of my vibe
1:51.7	and my groove. So I think I want to play again. But here's the kicker. I'll only play if
1:58.1	you trade me the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And by the way, hold on one second. My agent's
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