MLB and MLBPA are fighting again! (1/26)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘Eurythmics’ as in Here Comes The Rain Again as in MLB and the Players’ Union is at it again. Fighting has already started. It was always going to happen, but we thought everyone involved would be better… they weren’t. (10:22) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the current fight between the Washington Nationals and MASN (the regional sports network). (22:50) Woody Johnson has returned to New York after spending time overseas. He has returned to take the keys to the kingdom back from his brother, Chris, who was leading the New York Jets when he was gone. (27:03) Review - Promising Young Woman. (31:03) Budweiser is not doing a Super Bowl ad. They announced it. Who cares! (33:20) NPPOD. (36:21) It’s been one year since Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven other people died in a horrific helicopter crash. What a weird and sad year it has been since that day. (39:30) Remembering the life of Hank Aaron. (41:25) Who will make the 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame Class? Will Bonds, Clemens, and Schilling make it? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.5	Euridhmix. Nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday, January 26th is the Euridhmix,
0:48.5	the 80s band that Koka told me he's heard of because his mother likes 80s dance bands.
0:56.3	I've never referred to any Lennox and Dave Stewart as an 80s dance band before, but the
1:01.4	word of the day is Euridhmix. And my favorite Euridhmix song is Here Comes the Rain Again.
1:08.4	Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory, memory. Why is Euridhmix
1:17.5	the word of the day on this Tuesday because Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball
1:21.9	Players Association, they're at it again. Can you imagine as though it was not bad enough
1:29.6	when we looked back in 2020 and think about the dumpster fire that was the return to play
1:36.8	plan that Major League Baseball had, the fighting that went on, the fighting that went on between
1:46.2	the commissioner and the union, the back and forth involving the public, the statements,
1:53.1	we had 20 shows all based on statements that were done by the commissioner or by the union.
2:01.1	And I thought to myself, they're going to be better. Koka, that's Koka's line, right?
2:07.9	Let's be better. Let's be great. Baseball had a chance here to follow the lead of the
2:14.5	other sports and find a way to play the 2021 season with some markum of cooperation.
2:24.9	Just a piece, a piece of a good will and peace toward mankind. I don't think it's called
2:37.6	mankind anymore, Koka. Do we call it humankind? Humankind? Well, yesterday, step one in the game
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