MLB doing what it can to save 2020 season (8/6)
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Or well, you know, I always wanted to say a word that way because when you say or well |
| 0:13.0 | in as you're nothing personal word of the day, you have to do it in a way that indicates |
| 0:17.9 | what it is like on a monopoeia when a word is what it sounds like. Supercalifragilistic |
| 0:23.3 | expiolidosis, dishes, audacious. Okay. Here it is. The nothing personal word of the day |
| 0:29.5 | for August 6th, 2020. I'm going to do it right now. Or wellian. Or wellian as in George |
| 0:38.3 | Orwell, the writer. It's meant to indicate a totalitarian government, but really that's |
| 0:47.3 | not what I'm talking about. I use Orwellian the way I would think of big brother. Somebody's |
| 0:53.6 | watching you. I think that's a song by Rockwell. Somebody's watching me. I don't think I |
| 0:59.3 | got that right, Coco. There's no chance I did. I want to say it's Rockwell. One hit wonder |
| 1:03.4 | from the 1980s. Somebody's watching me, but I'm almost positive. That's wrong. In any case, |
| 1:10.7 | when I say or wellian, that just Coco just said correct. He's never written correct on |
| 1:18.0 | the document so close to the start of the show. That's a good sign. The reason I chose |
| 1:24.6 | that we chose Orwellian today is after all of the talk on nothing personal, going through |
| 1:32.2 | Major League Baseballs, return to play plan, the back and forth with the labor negotiation, |
| 1:38.8 | the 113-page health and safety protocol. We said this is going to be a living document. |
| 1:47.7 | And as part of that, there's going to be changes that happen. Some changes will happen |
| 1:53.1 | because there will be new events. There will be new epiphanies, new discoveries, new thoughts. |
| 2:02.2 | They will learn from actually starting this season that from a pragmatic standpoint, certain |
| 2:09.6 | provisions in the protocol need to be tweaked. On the other hand, there were things that |
| 2:16.6 | should have been in there from the beginning that as time has passed, their absence has |
| 2:23.0 | become more apparent and glaring. And MLB decided to plug some holes. The timing is not |
| 2:31.3 | strange because here nothing personal. You know the facts and the facts are that Rob |
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