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Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'no merci' or no, thank you or what the MLBPA said to the last proposal from MLB. It was voted down 33-5 and this is what that means. So now reports are out about a 60-game season being handed down by Commissioner Rob Manfred, but FIRST something needs to be done by the players. Here is what that is (0:06). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me what impact will this labor dispute have on the 2021 negotiations for a CBA (11:10). Dak Prescott signed his franchise-tag and now him and the Cowboys have until July 15th to sign a long-term deal. Will they reach a deal by then? Let's see what Jerry Jones has to say about it (16:35). Review: Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn (23:30). The NWSL is about to be the first team sports league to come back and it already has problems. Orlando Pride have pulled out of the tournament because 6 players and 4 staff members tested positive for covid-19. What can these problems tell us about possible problems for MLB and the NBA (28:12)? In more coronavirus news - Novak Djokovic announced that he has tested positive after playing in a much criticized tournament (33:20). University of Cincinnati is taking Marge Schott's name off its stadium. We talked about it here in an earlier episode about who she was. This is progress (37:00). MLBeard Challenge Day 100: National Civil Rights Museum. That's it for the MLBeard Challenge (39:45). #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/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go. There you go.
0:07.0	No, merci.
0:10.0	Sa salle de mode du jour.
0:12.0	Did nothing personal.
0:14.0	No, merci. Nothing personal word of the day.
0:18.0	No, merci. Means no thank you.
0:21.0	Yesterday, the Major League Baseball Players Association voted 33 to 5
0:26.0	against the last offer that Major League Baseball had sent to the players.
0:32.0	That was an offer for 60 games.
0:35.0	That would have had expanded playoffs.
0:38.0	It would have given players an opportunity to keep some of the $170 million of advanced
0:45.0	salary that was paid to the players.
0:48.0	They're calling it forgiveness, but really what it meant is some of the lower earning
0:54.0	players would have then made their full pro-rated salary for 60 games.
0:59.0	Plus whatever $100,000 they had gotten when the March 26th agreement in Major League
1:06.0	Baseball had been signed between the players and the owners.
1:11.0	Several other possible rules.
1:14.0	33 to 5.
1:16.0	Let's explain that for a minute, please.
1:19.0	Because you all know that there's only 30 teams in Major League Baseball.
1:23.0	Who exactly was voting when the players voted against this offer?
1:28.0	Well, each of the teams has a union rep.
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