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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Meyers Leonard and the all too common excuse for racial slurs (3/10)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘slur’ as in racial slur as in anti-semitic slur as in Miami Heat player Meyers Leonard was caught on a livestream saying an anti-semitic slur. Let’s talk about this situation, what followed, his response, the league’s response, and the Miami Heat’s response. (21:22) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if I would have told my players and execs to stop live interviews given what is happening right now. (33:03) Review: Murder Among the Mormons. (36:00) NPPOD. (38:09) Did MLB change the baseballs again? Let me let you in on the not so little secret. But don’t tell Blake Snell.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go. Here you go.

0:15.0

Slur. Slur is the nothing personal word of the day for March 10, 2021. Since last night,

0:23.0

I have not had a great night, great day. I've been thinking about this show and how I wanted to approach with you,

0:33.0

what happened with the Miami Heat Player, Myers Leonard.

0:37.0

And I decided that I'm going to come at it maybe from a slightly different angle than what you're hearing and what you are listening to with other personalities, other people in the media.

0:52.0

Maybe your friends, maybe your family. I want to give you the background of what happened.

0:59.0

There is a platform called Twitch, Twitch is where you play video games and people watch you play video games. It's the craziest thing ever. How great is that?

1:11.0

You get paid. Myers Leonard has sponsors. He's very good at gaming and there are people who make money because other people want to watch them play video games.

1:21.0

I don't think it's anything different than when you buy ticket to a sporting event and you watch people play basketball or baseball or football.

1:28.0

Now you just watch people play video games. Myers Leonard was on a live stream. He was playing a video game.

1:38.0

It doesn't matter what it was. It may have been called to it. He doesn't matter what it was. And he was playing and he said referring either to someone in the game,

1:49.0

someone he was playing against, someone in the room. It's a nine second video. It's very unclear who he was referring to.

1:57.0

He said, Hey, you K BITCH K I K E BITCH. I'm not going to say the words. Not going to. There's no reason to say the words.

2:13.0

It was tweeted out and I immediately called Koka and I said this is about to get serious right now. The Miami Heat are going to have to respond to this immediately.

2:25.0

And Myers Leonard has a problem. He's an injured player right now. He's got. He's a player option or a team option. I'm sorry. Next year.

2:34.0

He's going to get released. I told Koka. He is done. You cannot possibly say that word.

2:45.0

Anytime, but definitely this time.

2:51.0

Time passed. Nothing. Silence. I kept calling Koka and I kept saying something's going on here. There's been no response from anyone.

3:03.0

Then the gaming sponsor of Myers Leonard dropped him before we'd heard from the NBA or the heat or Myers.

3:14.0

And then slowly but surely responses came in.

3:18.0

And I've been thinking about where my outrage is and how to channel it so that we can actually learn something.

3:30.0

It does no use to just have a cancel culture where people disappear.

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