MLB added new All Star Game clause for legends; Are the Trailblazers and Seahawks for sale? Not for sale? Maybe for sale? (Episode 629)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘clause’ as in Santa Clause as in contract clause as in special clause as in the All Star Game Clause as in huh? Word came out yesterday that part of the new MLB CBA the Commissioner can now use a special clause to add “Legends of the Game” to the All Star rosters. What?! Albert Pujols batting .189 this year? You’re in! Miguel Cabrera? Of Course. Where does it end? Yadier Molina? Zack Greinke? (17:35) The Oakland Athletics announced that on July 4 a few fans that stuck around for the firework show were hit by bullet fragments from shots fired outside the stadium. What? Yes, it happened. (28:45) Review: Undergrads. (33:00) What is going to happen to the Portland Trailblazers and the Seattle Seahawks? Are they for sale? Are they not for sale? Will they ever be for sale? (42:40) NPPOD. (44:55) Wait to see: Brings us back to yesterday where I forgot to give the Zion Williamson one! (45:55) The New York Knicks are supposed to get fined for tampering in the signing of Jalen Brunson. What!? Tampering! In sports! Never! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Clause, nothing personal word of the day.
0:23.1	It's Wednesday, July 6, 2022, coming to you live from New York.
0:31.8	Clause, Santa Claus, contract clause.
0:38.2	I clause in the special moment to ponder my life.
0:43.8	Don't you clause me any pain?
0:47.6	Two of those four are actual and two of those four were actually thought about by Majorly
0:52.6	Baseball during the last Collective Garden Agreement.
0:55.2	Word came out yesterday and I immediately latched on to this as my number one thing to talk
1:00.8	about today.
1:02.8	The Collective Garden Agreement is a very thick document.
1:08.3	There are provisions in there that are not discussed about publicly just because when
1:13.3	the media gets it, what they really do is what the players do and it's what the owners
1:19.1	do.
1:20.1	Don't tell anyone, but everyone who votes on the Collective Garden Agreement, the only
1:26.2	people who actually read it are the lawyers who wrote it and don't vote on it.
1:33.0	There is not one owner including every owner on the labor committee.
1:37.8	There's not one player including every player on the executive council who reads the CBA
1:43.3	from letter one to letter final.
1:48.3	What they get is a summary document.
1:50.8	A summary document is long, it can be 20 pages, it can be 30 pages, it's like a novella.
1:56.9	How many pages do you have to be to be a novella, that's a short little novel and I don't
2:00.7	mean short as a diminutive, I mean short as in not long, like the anti-war and peace.
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