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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Lockout Day 2: Rob Manfred disaster press conference, what the negotiating room looks like, when will it end (12/3)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘struggle’ as in what a struggle as in everybody struggles as in Rob Manfred did a press conference on Thursday and it was a struggle. It’s now Day 2 of the MLB Lockout and we have a few items we need to discuss from that press conference. But first let’s chat about some of the differences between the owners and players that we’ve seen. What is going on with CBA talks? Why aren’t players faces on MLB dot com? What happens to players who are doing rehab? (8:15) Here is what Rob Manfred said and why it was such a struggle to listen to. Who is Rob Manfred addressing with his comments? Who is Tony Clark addressing with his comments? (21:15) What does the bargaining table look like? Is it Godfather style: Manfred and Clark face-off? No. The room is full of players, owners, lawyers, Clark, and Manfred. (27:00) Review: Old Henry. (29:35) What happened with the Peng Shuai saga in China? The WTA has announced its pulling events out of China. The IOC came out and said everything is okay! Interesting. (34:35) NPPOD. (37:40) Antonio Brown is back in the news. Why? He used fake vaccine cards and gave them to the Buccaneers and NFLPA! Wonderful! Great teammate! (43:50) NBA has punished the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls for tampering. Big time! They will lose 2nd round picks… Ha! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Struggle. Nothing personal. Word of the day for Friday, December 3rd, 2021 is struggle.

0:58.8

What a struggle! Everybody struggles. We don't use that word enough.

1:04.7

We actually use it too much, don't we?

1:07.6

Rob Manford did a press conference yesterday. It is day two of the major league baseball

1:13.4

lockout. And no, we're not going to do a countdown of every single day.

1:17.1

We're not growing a beard. We're not doing anything like that.

1:20.4

But when things come up during the course of the lockout, negotiations, press conferences, press

1:25.3

releases, any movement of any kind by either side, I want to talk about it because I want to explain

1:30.6

why people are saying what they're saying, doing what they're doing, and what's actually happening every single day.

1:36.8

So the owners vote earlier in the day on Wednesday to lock out Wednesday night or 11.59 pm when the

1:48.0

collective bargaining agreement ran out. Owners get into a meeting. It's a Zoom call on the old days.

1:52.9

It would just be a phone call. Zoom call, you take a vote. You need 23 votes to instruct the

1:59.8

commissioner to lock out the players. So they get the vote. Then the commissioner's office. It is a

2:06.4

formal act by management following all the protocols, all the rules, all the laws.

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