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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB leads negotiation leaks with WAR news; ZERO chance MLBPA would agree (11/12)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘WAR’ as in what is it good for? As in Wins Above Replacement as in the what in the world is MLB trying to say by recommending that arbitration prices be set from a players WAR on fangraphs. (26:55) Review: No Time to Die. (33:14) What is going on with the New York Knicks? After a week they were the talk of the town. First place in the eastern conference. Now? They can’t win at The Garden! Tom Thibodeau actually benched his entire starting unit against the Bucks in the 4th quarter. It’s what Thibodeau said after the game that we need to discuss. (40:50) NPPOD. (43:20) More and more details have been released in the Henry Ruggs case. Yesterday his lawyer tried to blame first responders for not getting to the scene quick enough. It’s such a BS claim, it’s a shame, and it just adds to more of the tragedy this was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:56.0

It won't stop. There it goes. Hello. War is the word of the day.

1:13.9

November 12th, 2021. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Picture the offices of the players union.

1:23.2

They've got nice office space. I wonder if they're virtual.

1:28.0

Right now they're in San Diego for the GM meetings. Coming back today, I assume.

1:32.0

Having meetings, the next meetings are Monday in person trying to get a collective bargain agreement.

1:36.7

But Tony Clark, the head of the union, was walking around the hotel suite in the hotel lobby.

1:42.5

Oh, war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. The hell am I talking about?

1:50.1

Well, a couple of things. Number one, I'm alone today.

1:54.8

Koka is not producing the show. After last night's Raven's loss, he's not resigning apparently.

2:02.8

This is the negotiation that took place as of early this morning.

2:06.8

He's currently not resigning. However, the nothing personal pick of the day will no longer ever be allowed to be the Ravens.

2:15.6

Or any of his other favorite teams. And I don't yet know what the list of those teams are because it's a list to be provided later.

2:23.8

Sort of like when you have a no trade clause in every year, you get to provide the number of teams.

2:28.3

If you're no trade clause says you can't be traded to six teams each year, you have to submit a list of the six teams you cannot be traded to.

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