Mets owner Steve Cohen learning hard way: Rings have to be earned, not bought! Phillies having major pitch clock problems! Will the Nuggets win it all tonight!? (Episode 834)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘hedge fund’ as in Steve Cohen as in New York Mets as in stink! How are the Mets this bad? Highest payroll in baseball. Home Run leader. Verlander. Scherzer. And they’re 9.5 GB of the Braves! Behind the Marlins! (16:20) Pitch clock problems! The Phillies are alleging that the pitch clock at home is moving faster than every other ballpark! What!? (27:30) Review: Smartless. (30:45) Blue Jays DFA relief pitcher Anthony Bass. It took them long enough. Why did they handle it like they did? (38:40) NPPOD (43:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me if Billy the Marlin was ever hurt like Burnie was by Conor McGregor… oh boy! It's a gloomy Monday in the northeast, but that shouldn't stop you from trying to have a great day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:07.0	Here you go.
0:15.3	Hedge fund.
0:16.8	Good morning.
0:17.8	It is Monday, June 12, 2023.
0:21.3	The word of the day is hedge fund.
0:23.5	It doesn't matter if you know what a hedge fund is.
0:26.8	But if you do, you can explain it to others who don't.
0:29.8	But the purpose of this story is to talk about the New York
0:33.3	Mets and their very, very wealthy, amazing business man,
0:37.3	Steve Cohn, who's come into the ownership ranks several years
0:41.2	ago and turned baseball on its ass, putting so much money
0:45.9	to payroll, signing players, wanting to get Korea, who is
0:49.6	going to put them over the top, didn't get Korea, go back
0:52.3	to previous episodes.
0:55.7	And starts and the Mets have been an abomination.
1:01.2	The most disappointing team in Major League Baseball,
1:04.6	when there are many candidates as we get into the middle
1:07.5	of June, they are fighting with the Cardinals,
1:09.9	they're fighting with the Padres for most disappointing
1:12.6	team.
1:13.6	But the Mets are taking the cake.
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