Is the Astros dynasty over? GM says team still too good to be sellers! Japanese rookie aces and MLB's warning on "draft dodging" (Episode 1047)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’prophetic’ as in the Houston Astros as in dynasty as in Dana Brown as in when is it time to move on. The Astros have been bad this year. Pitching has been horrendous. Verlander is getting rocked. 11 games under .500. 0-5 vs the Yankees this season. Bu the GM says the team is too good to sell! (11:00) Shota Imanaga and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have found their grooves. Let’s talk about the contracts. Let’s talk about how good they have been. (18:12) MLB draft talk! The league sent memos to teams about draft dodging. Huh!? (32:20) We have 2 new tour dates! (35:40) Review: The Long Game. (38:05) NPPOD. (42:50) Commissioners met with the media to discuss what’s going on with gambling. In the fallout of Jontay Porter it’s all about integrity of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. Profetic. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Wednesday, May 8th, 24. I could have gone with pathetic, but instead we decided to go with
0:27.5	prophetic, as in Dana Brown, the GM of the Houston Astros, who clearly are toward the end of this dynasty that may be the best
0:38.7	dynasty I've been around for in Major League Baseball history of my history with Major League Baseball.
0:44.4	They seem to make it to the LCS World Series,
0:48.5	win a bunch of World Series.
0:50.6	Dana Brown comes in as GM comes in in a very strange hiring process where we know that
0:56.8	Jim Crane is actually the one who wants control, has control, is more than just a little bit involved.
1:04.0	The Astros have been struggling mightily.
1:08.0	They are 12 and 23.
1:10.0	It's been 35 games.
1:12.0	It is now, given your your math the season is 20% over and the Astros find themselves in
1:18.8	last place and the question asked of Dana Brown is, where are we? How do we feel about the season? What do we think about being a buyer or a seller? Of course, it's not too early to think about it because of the
1:34.7	Araya's trade with the Marlins that now local media and fans and bloggers etc are
1:41.7	wondering whether their teams are going to be adding or subtracting.
1:45.4	And a team in last place with the record like what the Astros have, in theory, you're
1:51.5	getting ready to sell Mortimer.
1:54.0	But instead, Dana Brown came out with what I think
1:59.0	is the funniest statement we've had
2:02.0	in the baseball season so far and by funny I mean the
2:07.4	Joe Peshi type of funny like I'm amused by his statement.
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