MLB Expansion: Utah joins fight with Nashville, Portland, and Las Vegas to get a team!; Jeff Bezos OUT of Commanders sale!? (Episode 794)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘32’ as in the number of teams MLB wants as in two more to go as in what happens with Oakland and Tampa will impact the next two. So who’s in? Salt Lake City wants in. Nashville wants in. Portland wants in. Las Vegas wants in. (10:45) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Diamond not paying TV deals to teams. This person wanted to know if players would still be getting paid. (27:55) Review: Lewis Capaldi - How I’m Feeling Now. (33:45) Jeff Bezos is reportedly out of the running for ownership of the Washington Commanders. What happened? (39:30) NPPOD. (42:00) Beer for sale! Beer for sale! Beer for sale! How are teams selling alcohol now that MLB game speeds have increased? It's a beautiful day in the northeast! Sun is shining! Stay hydrated, folks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:07.0	Here you go.
0:15.0	32.
0:17.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.1	It's Thursday, April 13, 2023.
0:22.5	We are live on the nothing personal with David Samson YouTube channel.
0:26.4	And if you're listening to this, thank you.
0:28.6	32 as in the number of teams that MLB wants, expansion has been talked about a nothing personal.
0:35.4	Many times, expansion comes after stadium deals are completed.
0:41.0	We sat in meetings and told you that there's going to be 32 teams.
0:44.9	If you want to have a team, if you want to be a major league city, give a couple billion
0:49.7	dollars, build a stadium, guarantee some sort of broadcast revenue, show us a path to
0:56.2	being a revenue sharing, give or not receiver, then make sure your ownership group is people
1:02.9	who we want to sit around with and we want to be with.
1:06.3	And then we'll get you 23 votes.
1:08.4	And then you can be a major league city.
1:12.1	It's a pretty simple process.
1:15.1	There's articles being written everywhere about should it be Nashville, should it be Charlotte,
1:19.5	could it be Portland, may it be Vegas, what about Montreal?
1:23.2	Yesterday, there was a leak, a purposeful leak that Utah has entered the conversation.
1:31.2	Hell yeah.
1:33.9	Utah said that they're ready for Major League Baseball and they gave you the reasons why they
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