MLB Deal or No Deal: Springs TJ surgery, Hunter Greene, Pablo Lopez extensions; Draymond Green HAS been suspended! Wow! (Episode 798)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘caution’ as in think first before acting as in giving out contracts to players that are under long term contracts. What am I talking about? Look at the Julio, Acuńa, Wander deals. Seem good. What about Jeffrey Springs? David Fletcher? Will Pablo Lopez and Hunter Greene work out? (16:30) Draymond Green has been suspended for Game 3 of the Warriors-Kings series. We told you it would happen. (25:40) MLB is testing out new rules again. Will these one make it to the big leagues? (37:30) Review: When You Finish Saving the World. (39:40) NPPOD. Hump DAYYYYYYYYYYYY! Let's go people! Can almost smell the weekend from here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm going to be a caution.
0:17.6	Nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.2	It is April 19th today is Wednesday, 2023 caution.
0:25.2	You running a baseball team.
0:27.2	Let me set this up for you.
0:28.2	You got a bunch of young players.
0:30.4	You have fans, you have media.
0:32.8	Everybody telling you, sign these guys.
0:35.8	Show some commitment to your market.
0:38.1	Show some commitment to your team.
0:40.6	Be the braves.
0:42.2	Get all the young players and sign them right now.
0:45.2	I was sitting in a office at Marlon's Park or pro player.
0:50.3	Don't remember which doesn't matter.
0:52.5	And word came across in the way we got news of signings before social media.
0:57.5	Is there was a printout, a computer that had all new contracts signed by any team.
1:03.5	We had a baseball assistant whose job it was to print out all of the newly approved contracts
1:10.9	and then give it to the AGM, the GM and to me.
1:16.2	So every day comes by and drops off the piece of paper and we see a contract and we look
1:21.4	at it at Evan Longori and we say, wow, that seems excessive.
1:26.4	And that's Tampa who was starting the process or the new game of finding a young player,
1:35.2	believing in that young player and signing that young player.
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