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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB cannot stop playing with their balls... again (2/9)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

Sunday afternoon, the NFL, the visual playoffs on CDS features a matchup between two of the best young quarterbacks in the game

0:08.0

when Joe Burrow and the Banks take on Josh Allen's bid.

0:14.0

This is unbelievable. A trip to the AFC Championship is on the line.

0:18.0

We'll get your set for kickoff beginning at two Easter with JB and the guys on the NFL today.

0:23.0

The NFL, the visual playoffs presented by a two-it-turbo-tax Sunday on CDS.

0:30.0

Dead in, D-E-A-D-E-N. Nothing personal word of the day for February 9, 2021 is dead in.

0:55.0

As an MLB is deadening the ball. Let's break it down. Let's talk about it.

1:03.0

Here's how the situation unravels in Major League Baseball.

1:08.0

There are all these committees with the owners. They've got the Finance Committee, they've got the Strategic Planning Committee,

1:15.0

they've got the International Committee, they have the Competition Committee, they have the Plain Rules Committee.

1:21.0

It's a plethora of committees. The Competition Committee, which I was happy to serve on for all those years,

1:29.0

is where you sit around four times a year at owners meetings back when they were in person.

1:35.0

You get on the phone a couple times a year and you ponder all that ails the game.

1:42.0

The Strategic Planning Committee, which Jeffrey Laurie was on and I sat in on a couple of times,

1:49.0

looks at the macro issues in baseball and thinks out long term three to ten years.

1:56.0

It's like when you're asked that question, what do you want to be in five years and where?

2:01.0

I don't know, making more money promoted. So that's the Strategic Planning Committee.

2:08.0

The International Committee, of which I also sat, that is where you say, what country can we get more money from in broadcasting

2:16.0

and maybe do a few clinics and a few off-season visits and get some more players from those countries.

2:21.0

I could enough that maybe we can get a player from India or China.

2:26.0

Please, please God, where is Yao Ming? That's the International Committee.

2:33.0

The Plain Rules Committee is a far more serious committee because they've got the weight of the rules on their shoulder.

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