MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announces he is stepping down in 2029! WHOA!; Why doesn't MLB have a free agency deadline!? (Episode 992)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘lifetime’ as in Rob Manfred as in MLB as in commissioner as in Rob Manfred announced he’s stepping down in 2029. He also spoke of myriad of things: retirement, free agency, jerseys, Athletics, Diamond Sports Group. Let’s go through his comments. (17:35) The Athletics met with Oakland officials yesterday. What was said? Any progress? (28:00) Review: Suncoast. (34:00) The 49ers fired DC Steve Wilks after the Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs. Was he Kyle Shanahan’s scapegoat or was there something more? (40:20) NPPOD - the Milwaukee Bucks have been so bad since Doc Rivers took over. WOOF! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At McDonald's, we always listen to our fans.
0:02.8	So to the 716 people who've recently told us how much they missed the iconic breakfast
0:08.5	rap, we want you to know we heard you loud and clear.
0:11.7	That's why we're finally bringing it back.
0:14.1	Grab yours from the 7th of February.
0:16.1	W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W.
0:17.1	W. W. W. W. W. W. Here you go. go. Lifetime. That's the Nothing Personal Award of the Day for Friday, February 16th. Good morning. Thank God, it's Friday.
0:44.0	Lifetime, as in Commissioner Rob Manford, saying,
0:48.0	you can only have so much fun in one lifetime
0:51.0	as he announced that he would not be seeking re-election
0:54.9	when his current five-year term expires. We're going to have a new commissioner
0:59.6	in Major League Baseball in 2009.
1:05.8	Before I get to all the things that he talked about
1:08.0	when he met the media in Tampa
1:09.5	as part of Great Fruit League Media Day, and he talked about a lot of things that interest us here
1:15.3	on nothing personal.
1:17.5	For the record, I hope that everyone agrees with me. You can't have so much fun in one lifetime. There's an unlimited
1:28.4	amount of fun you should strive for in a lifetime. If you want to retire, then you say, hey, I don't want to work
1:35.6	anymore because I want to have more fun before my life runs out. I'm going to be seven years old.
1:42.1	I want to be with my kids and grandkids and wife and travel the world on a 365 day cruise.
1:48.0	But he's saying being the commissioner was the most fun to having a lifetime and there's a limit to that.
1:54.0	As a self-described hedonist,
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