MLB May Review: Judge & Soto stay scorching hot for Yankees! Caitlin Clark, the WNBA, & what needs to be done (Episode 1064)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘35.1 or 37.6’ as in how much of the MLB season is already over. Can you believe it? Let’s recap the biggest storylines from May. I’ll review my May predictions. And then we’ll look ahead to June. It all starts with the Yankees. (9:13) What were some of the biggest surprises in May? (14:34) Let’s review my May predictions. (16:19) Here are my predictions for June! (20:50) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the WNBA and Caitlin Clark. Hard fouls. Dirty fouls. Social media comments. Why do players dislike Clark so much? (36:30) Review: The Fall Guy. (39:00) Stanley Cup Final is here! Panthers vs Oilers! (42:09) Tommy Pham may not be in baseball much longer. (48:00) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. 351 to 36. That's the nothing personal word of a day.
0:22.7	It is Monday, June 3rd, 2024.
0:27.7	It's the first show of June,
0:30.3	which means it's time to talk about Major League Baseball and what happened in May
0:35.4	and can you imagine that
0:37.5	teams have played between 57 and 61 games already?
0:41.8	Anytime you get below a hundred games left you know that it is no longer early.
0:48.0	And I wanted to start with the top storylines for May. We're going to go over May. We're going to talk about some
0:53.9	predictions. We're going to talk about predictions that I predicted for May that may or
0:59.8	may not have come true. We're going to catch you up on a bunch of things. Let's start with
1:04.3	what I think is the top storyline in Major League Baseball. Not because that's where I am.
1:11.6	I think everyone in baseball is talking about the Yankees.
1:15.4	They were 21 and 7 in May. They have two of the top three, maybe two of the top two if you did American League MVP voting right now
1:28.0	with Otani out of the American League.
1:31.0	I think you have to say that Juan Soto and Aaron Judge would finish two of the top three.
1:35.8	In what order, unclear.
1:39.0	Aaron Judge had a season.
1:41.5	What is with people?
1:43.0	Aaron Judge, done, doing terribly.
1:46.0	Remember how tough his start was?
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