Matsuyama becomes an icon, A-Rod may finally own a team, and MLB replay still STINKS! (4/12)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘icon’ as in Hideki Matsuyama is the new Masters champion as in never having to buy your own beer again at a bar. But what’s it like to be an icon in Japan? Matsuyama is about to find out. Spending time with Ichiro in Japan was an experience I will never forget. (10:00) What in the world happened in the Phillies-Braves game last night? We spoke about how poor replay was last week — and it gets even worse. Alec Bohn was out on a play at the plate, but the umps called him safe, after review everyone in the world saw he was out, but he was called safe. Phillies win 7-6 and the world explodes. (17:46) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Alex Rodriguez has entered into an exclusive period to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves. Remember when he was going to buy the Mets? Remember when he was joining a SPAC? (31:53) Review: Weed The People. (37:49) More MLB drama! Mets/Marlins had a a rain delay after 7 minutes of gameplay. It was complete BS and both sides were mad. How did this happen? (43:40) Jacob deGrom needs run support. He is the best pitcher in baseball and his team doesn’t win. How long can this go on? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Icon. Nothing personal. Word of the day for Monday April 12, 2021 is icon.
0:22.9	What does it mean to be an icon? It means that you are famous for life. You never buy
0:31.9	another drink for yourself. You can go anywhere you want whenever you want to.
0:35.9	Even when it says do not enter, you can go in through the outdoor.
0:40.9	In Japan, if you're an icon, it means that you will never have another moment of
0:48.9	peace. The rest of your life. I spent time in Japan with an icon named
0:55.9	Ichiro, the baseball player, and I've never seen anything like it. He made the Beatles
1:01.9	look like Koka. Everywhere he went, no matter what age he was, forget the needing
1:06.9	security. It's more than security. It's that everyone believes they know you and
1:12.9	everyone wants to talk to you whether they're three years old or 83 years old. It means
1:18.9	they close restaurants for you when you want to eat there. It means they let you
1:22.9	in every back door. In Japan, the culture is one of respect and history. And
1:32.9	Ichiro had this ability to navigate fame in a way that I hadn't seen any.
1:41.9	Superstar navigate. And I had been around some superstars, whether it's Barry
1:47.9	Bonds or other such people in the United States, but being a superstar in an icon in
1:52.9	Japan is a completely different thing. Ichiro is more famous in Japan than
1:58.9	LeBron James is anywhere or Michael Jordan or I was going to say my gumbry
2:04.9	cliff. Why is that name in my head? I have no idea. I'm thinking of Tom
2:08.9	Jones, Andrew Lina Jolie, any movie star, any president, anybody. Ichiro
2:14.9	was the number one in Japan. Well, this weekend history was made at the
2:20.9	masters. Hadecki Matsuyama. Get to know that name. Hadecki Matsuyama is
2:27.9	a now a name like Ichiro. I wonder if he'll go by war name just to
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