It's Coca Thursday! How contracts get negotiated! Latency issue in streaming! MLS vs Vancouver! (Episode 1448 Hour 2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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It's another Coca Thursday, people! Yes, I complain about the Mets again. Yes, I root for BAD teams! But, let's talk about contracts. How do they get negotiated? Where does the price come from? Please fix the latency issue in streaming. If you know anything about this issue, contact me! How do the minor leagues work? Is the major league team instructing them on what they can do with MLB players? MLS vs Vancouver! Are the Whitecaps leaving for Las Vegas? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm I'm Welcome back to nothing personal. It is time to get you more of what you crave, the award-winning producer of Nothing
0:44.1	Personal, who has been by our side every step of the way.
0:48.9	Today is episode 1,448 of our regular show.
0:54.6	That's not including back in the day when we did separate mailbags and Samson sit downs.
1:01.2	1,448, Coke has been there every one of them.
1:04.7	And now what we do is the last hour of the week.
1:07.0	He gets to tell me, like an ombudsman, everything that's bothering him.
1:11.4	And God knows so many things piss him off.
1:14.6	But also, he's so helpful to me.
1:16.9	How you doing, Coco?
1:17.7	How is your week?
1:19.8	Not great.
1:21.0	It's not been great.
1:22.4	Come on, man.
1:23.4	No, I mean, they just aren't.
1:26.4	Things just aren't going well. I just can't. I can't take it anymore. I can't. Is this metz related? I mean, it's always metz related. I feel like that's what people want, right? People, people write to me and they say, hey, you complain too much, right? You're too angry.
1:44.4	You're too negative.
1:45.8	I want them to just sit down and watch one game of Mets baseball and then come away with any
1:53.7	sort of optimism for being a sports fan.
1:57.7	Because yesterday you're watching this game and it's 3-1 and things feel good.
2:03.1	You're like, okay, you know, they're keeping it close. Juan Soto is hitting the baseball well.
2:07.0	Nobody else really is. And then, you know, David Peterson has the bases loaded.
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