Mets sign Juan Soto to $765 MILLION deal! LARGEST CONTRACT IN SPORTS HISTORY! What do the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays do? (Episode 1182)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘precursor’ as in Juan Soto as in the Mets as in the Yankees as in Scott Boras as in record-setting as in Steve Cohen. The New York Mets have signed Juan Soto for $765 million. WHAT!? The largest contract in the history of professional sports! Steve Cohen said he was going to spend and spend and spend to win a ring and this Soto signing is a huge step! Promises kept! (18:50) What do the other MLB teams do now? Yankees? Red Sox? Blue Jays? (34:00) Review: A Different Man. (38:20) Is there going to be a push for a salary cap in MLB now? The Dodgers and Mets are spending WAY more than the bottom half of the league. (42:50) Let’s talk some NFL! The Jets are a disaster! Josh Allen will win the MVP! The Giants STINK! (51:10) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.1	December 12th on Max.
0:24.2	Please watch responsibly.
0:27.6	Here you go.
0:30.7	Here you go.
0:31.4	You go. Precursor.
0:43.5	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:45.7	It is Monday, December 9th, 2004.
0:50.9	It was only 20 years ago today that I started in major league baseball.
0:58.4	And as I looked ahead to the next 20 years, whatever my career, the path it would take,
1:05.0	whether it's a World Series victory, whether it's moving from Montreal to Florida,
1:09.5	not even a kernel of a thought in my mind.
1:12.4	I'm not sure that I could have laid out a path at that moment
1:16.7	that would have led me or the news that I'm sharing with you to today.
1:22.2	Twenty years.
1:23.5	That's not a lot of time.
1:26.5	And yesterday, we got an answer to our one Soto question.
1:32.0	This year's biggest free agent, biggest generational player, the most talented player
1:38.2	you've ever seen is going to the New York Mets.
1:43.1	If you're living under a rock or you slept and just woke up,
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