It's a Coca Thursday! Mets plans, Lane Kiffin departure, Penn State's lack of plan, Baseball Hall of Fame!

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hey all, I am writing to say hello. Thank you for your support this year, and as we continue to establish better on-camera chemistry during this hour. Today David and myself breakdown the Mets plans after signing Devin Williams, Lane Kiffin leaving Ole Miss and ESPN's role in the narrative, Penn State not having a head coach, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. No show tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Where are you?
0:21.6	Nothing is up right now.
0:23.6	Nothing is up right now. I Where are you? Hey, hey.
0:38.5	Nothing is up right now.
0:41.5	I did have a question about the casino project that you were just discussing in the first
0:48.1	hour if people were to listen to that.
0:50.9	Do you not think that this is something that would keep more traveling fans closer to the area?
0:57.8	Like, do you think this is something that, you know, they sort of envision that instead of just coming for one game, you know, people will come and they'll stay in the area for multiple games.
1:07.9	You know, they'll stay for a whole three game series.
1:11.7	Have you been to the Hard Rock guitar hotel in Fort Lauderdale?
1:16.1	Yeah, but I lived there.
1:18.2	I didn't, you know, I wasn't like a traveling person.
1:20.0	When, when people came to visit you, was it part of your entertainment rotation?
1:26.9	Like, was it a place, hey, let's go to South Beach, let's go to
1:30.6	Los Olas and let's go to Hard Rock. With my friends, with my friends, correct. Me too. Yeah.
1:36.7	Great food, always part of the rotation. Did it never had anything to do. So for me, with City Field, my problem always has been,
1:46.9	people aren't going to Queens and to that casino as baseball fans. They may go as casino fans.
1:55.9	They may go if there's good restaurants in there for a dinner. But in terms of incremental season tickets or incremental corporate revenue or incremental
2:04.9	game day revenue, the fact that there's a casino there, A, the majority of the
2:10.5	demographic attracted to a casino are not going to go to a baseball game.
2:14.6	And B, the increment is not measurable in terms of making this a worthwhile
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