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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Economics 101: What the media is getting wrong (5/19)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'petty' as in Tom Petty as in STOP as in the US/Canada border isn't supposed to open for another month (0:06). What does this mean to the return for sports? Virtual class is in session! Time for some MLB Economics 101. I’m tired of people with no true experience questioning MLB and claim of losses. Let me explain what media and public are not understanding (10:17). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if Andrew Cuomo saying he wants sports to return mean that sports will be back. Governors of FL, CA, Texas and NY and Az ready to welcome sports back. Is this significant? Let’s break it down (29:22). Review - Waco (36:20). MLBeard Challenge Day 68: Broward Jewish Federation (42:00). #waittosee ---------------------------   'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.   Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson  To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go. Here you go.

0:07.0

Petty. The nothing personal word of the day today is petty. As in Tom Petty, don't come

0:16.0

around here no more. Hey, whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more. Give

0:26.0

it up. Stop. That's what they're saying at the Canada US border. Don't come around

0:34.0

here no more. Just to now just that the border between Canada and the US will be closed

0:39.0

another month until June 21st, which I would say is sometime in the middle of summer, but

0:47.4

it turns out that's even a day before summer starts. I feel like it's six months from now.

0:53.0

It turns out it is a month and two days from now. Why is that an important moment for us

0:59.0

here at nothing personal? Well, we can go sport by sport hockey. How's that going to work?

1:05.2

If they do an all playoff tournament, 2014, they're rumored to be talking about. I don't

1:12.2

know if you've heard Eugene Melnick owner of the Ottawa Senators talked about the fact

1:17.2

that he wants the draft to happen in June. He wants playoffs, regular season. Let's go.

1:22.2

Well, you got a team that Ottawa is not a good team, but what about Vancouver or Winnipeg or

1:29.2

Edmonton Toronto? You can't get into Canada. The only way that anyone can play in Canada

1:40.2

for June 21st would be if you have a Canadian passport and you quarantine for 14 days.

1:49.2

So, man, I used to work with his name is PJ. He used to work with him at the Marlins and the Expos.

1:54.2

He now works for the Ottawa Senators. I didn't mean to call out Eugene PJ. I'm sorry, but it's Eugene.

2:01.2

He gave an interview and I'm going to call it out on nothing personal. But in any case, you had to go back to Canada.

2:07.2

Got in the car from Florida, drove three days and three nights, get to the border, show your passport,

2:15.2

and they say, hey, what's your QP? What's your quarantine plan? To which I assume your answer was, you showed a

2:24.2

jug of kettle one, you showed a case of Cabernet, you showed a Kindle, you showed a yoga mat, and you showed an iPad.

2:35.2

And said, that's my schedule. Any questions? Well, they said, well, in the next 14 days, you better not be outside because we're talking jail and a huge fine.

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