Mailbag: Cancel a trade; Creating the best lineup in baseball; Why pros don't play the Olympics (8/17)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Mailbag! It’s a mailbag! It’s time for some mail! If you could go back time and cancel any trades in MLB history, what would they be? If you had $800M to spend on a lineup, who would be in it? (12:20) Would you ever purchase a minor league team and would it ever be profitable? (20:20) Contracts for minor league players who play in Olympics (26:20) How did execs feel about the World Baseball Classic? ((33:28) Why don’t teams cut players they traded $1 for that got hurt? (42:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	Mel bag. Nothing personal word of the day is mel bag. Today is, I don't know what day it is.
0:57.5	Surprise. I've recorded this already. It's not today. It actually is today. It's not this day.
1:03.9	It's actually it is this day. It's not your day. It is a day that ends with why. We're doing some
1:10.6	mailbags. You went into Twitter. You asked me questions at David P. Samson. Thank you. You went on
1:15.9	Apple. You rated it and reviewed. Do that again. You hit subscribe on subscribe. Re-subscribe.
1:21.7	And you've somehow gotten Coke of free clothes in the sound bar. Way to go. Just kidding. I want to
1:27.8	answer some questions because they're good ones. Each episode has a theme and Coke knows what it is.
1:34.1	I don't. I just answer the questions. I think we should just start. I mean, there's so much to get to
1:38.5	today. How do you know today's not yesterday? It's definitely not yesterday. Today is last week.
1:46.7	Today's tomorrow, edge of tomorrow. Coke and I were talking about these mailbag episodes and we
1:51.3	were talking about edge of tomorrow. I don't remember why we were, but I know it's one of his favorite
1:56.0	movies. Anyway, let's start that again. Coca. All right. Here we go. Ready? 6 10 69. Mailbag. Nothing
2:06.7	personal word of the day. We're doing mailbag episodes. I just want to start. If if you could go
2:13.2	back in time, there's a song by Cher that goes like that. If you could turn back time,
2:21.1	do you know what turning back time is and with money? Time is money, right? Turning back time is when
2:28.8	you make a decision in your life personally and professionally and you say to yourself, I've
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