Juan Soto Trade: Should the Yankees go all-in!? Why are the Padres trading him?; MLB Winter Meetings: Is Shohei Ohtani going to sign? (Episode 942)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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MERCH SALE: davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop Today’s word of the day is ‘rental’ as in one year as in short term as in Juan Soto as in the San Diego Padres as in the New York Yankees. The rumors now are the Yankees want Soto, but the Padres are asking for a lot. Is it worth it? Should the Yankees go all in for Soto? (15:33) MLB Winter Meetings are about to start on Sunday. What should we expect? Is this when Soto gets traded? Is this when Shohei Ohtani signs? (21:05) Is Aaron Rodgers going to return? Should he return? Do fans want him to return? (30:50) Review: Inception. (36:25) Let’s give a Mark Cuban update. He is not running for president. (41:00) NPPOD. (44:40) Andre Dawson wants to change his Baseball Hall of Fame team. What? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.6	Add a card to your Google wallet. Rental. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Wednesday, the final day of
0:36.2	November. It is definitely not Wednesday. Hello, this is David Sampson. It's Thursday, November 30th, 2023. The word of the day is rental.
0:47.0	Never good to rent when you can be building equity in something. If you can't find a way to get equity, you can't buy a house yet, I get it. Renting is necessary. I did it for a lot of years, decades in Manhattan. Once you get into sports sports renting takes on a whole different thought process
1:06.6	because you really would rather not view your career as always renting players.
1:13.5	In fact, that's what we do.
1:15.2	Very few players are with you your entire career.
1:17.9	Very few players play on the same team
1:19.6	their entire career.
1:20.7	So you really are renting a player for a period of time. And in
1:24.4	baseball, the expression a rental player generally means that they don't have a
1:29.2	long-term deal with you and that they're going to be a free agent and they likely could leave you.
1:34.6	I never understood why we would only refer to pre-free agent players as rentals.
1:42.4	When we sign players to one-year deals, how are they not rentals?
1:46.2	But we don't call them that.
1:48.7	We're seeing a lot of players, Nick Martinez, just signed the two-year deal with the Reds.
1:52.5	Why isn't he a rental?
1:54.3	But we don't look at it that way.
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