Jacob deGrom season is OVER! Do Rangers regret giving him $185M?; LIV Golf takeover! How the PGA Tour folded to Saudi money and which sports may be next! (Episode 831)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘Tommy John’ as in Jacob deGrom as in 5 years as in $185M as in the Texas Rangers are mad as in Jacob deGrom is done for the season and needs Tommy John surgery. Did the Rangers know? Was this inevitable? (13:40) LIV Golf and PGA Tour announced a merger yesterday. What happened? What changed? What will change? Is the Saudi-backed business good for golf? (35:00) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about what happens next with Saudi money. Will this money trickle into MLB? NFL? NBA? MLS? NHL? Where does it end? (44:00) NPPOD. It's a weird one in the northeast still! Air quality isn't great so instead of the usual "get some sun" -- i'll say be safe, everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:07.0	Here you go.
0:16.0	Tommy John, nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.5	It is June 7th, Wednesday, 2023.
0:23.6	Two lead stories today.
0:24.9	We're going to get to them both.
0:26.4	Jacob DeGrom is having Tommy John surgery and it was an epic day in the world of golf.
0:33.0	But we are starting with Jacob DeGrom because I am not taking a victory lap about this.
0:39.0	I am not going to tell you that this is not painful.
0:43.4	Too many negatives.
0:45.1	Four, six, nine.
0:46.9	Very painful for Jacob DeGrom.
0:49.6	I feel sorry for him, mostly.
0:53.0	But what happened yesterday is so angry to me that I had to lead off the show with it.
1:00.6	I'm sorry personally for the way that I and others who worked with me and for me would
1:09.3	mislead you when giving you information.
1:13.9	We do it for competitive reasons.
1:15.5	We do it because we don't want other teams to know.
1:17.4	We do because we don't want you to know.
1:19.0	We don't want the media to know.
1:20.7	We don't want people to understand the depth of injuries for competitive reasons because
1:26.3	we think if you know how badly somebody's hurt, then another team knows and then we'll
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