MLB Early Takeaways: Rays remain perfect while Phillies, Astros, Mets, Dodgers, Cardinals struggle - DO NOT PANIC! (Episode 793)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘it’s early’ as in the season has just begun as in your team isn’t that bad as in the other teams aren’t that good. The Tampa Bay Rays are undefeated still, 11-0. Will they stay perfect? Will the Phillies, Mets, Dodgers, Astros continue to struggle!? The Marlins finally got a player to hit the cycle, no not that cycle. (11:00) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Anthony Volpe getting benched by the New York Yankees. Let’s discuss how rookies have done this season so far. (22:20) Are the Arizona Diamondbacks getting a new stadium? Chase Field opened just 25 years ago! (32:55) Review: Avatar: The Way of Water. (37:55) NPPOD. (40:20) Zion Williamson speaks to the media and answers some questions about why he’s not playing. What is going on here? I'm going to my first Mets game of the year today! Hot dog time! Are you a ketchup or mustard person? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's early, not just in the morning, but in the baseball season.
0:20.9	It's early is the nothing personal word of the day.
0:23.1	It is Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
0:27.8	And I wanted to calm everybody down.
0:31.3	People are getting into timelines and getting into DMs and on the street in the grocery
0:35.8	store telling me that their team stinks panicking, saying the Tampa Bay rays ought to be planning
0:41.7	their parade, figuring out what the rings are going to look like.
0:44.4	They're never going to lose a game.
0:46.7	Wondering whether or not the Cardinals are going to finish in the last place.
0:49.7	Maybe they will.
0:50.7	They won't.
0:51.7	The Astros, Miss Al Tuvé, no buzzers, no garbage cans.
0:56.5	The mentality of fans fascinates me.
1:01.0	I'm not sure how often on nothing personal we talk about.
1:05.8	Fans and what you're thinking and how hard it is as an executive.
1:09.2	I'm not looking for a violin.
1:11.1	Don't worry.
1:12.1	I'm not asking for anyone to feel sorry for me.
1:13.7	But I do often find myself thinking about how can I better communicate?
1:19.3	How to take the emotion out of a thought.
1:23.0	And I spend years being on emotional, robotic, all the things that you know about me.
1:27.1	And I'm definitely different now.
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