MLB media rights update and NBA schedule means: Get ready to pay for more streaming services! (Episode 1337 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘cable’ as in cable TV as in streamers as in MLB as in NBA as in NBC as in Peacock as in Netflix as in Apple as in ESPN! Remember the death of cable TV? Don’t you wish it didn’t go away? Let’s start with MLB and its broadcast rights. Where will MLB games be next season? Apple? NBC? Netflix? ESPN? Could be! (16:00) The NBA schedule was released yesterday and guess what? You need at least four different subscriptions to watch national games! NBC! Peacock! ESPN! ABC! Prime! How fun? We’ll take a look some of the new wrinkles in these schedules. Sorry, East Coast! (30:00) Review: Untamed. (33:20) Brian Flores is still wrapped up in a lawsuit against the NFL over discrimination. And he just got a big win in court. (42:30) The NFLPA is in deep water again. It never ends. (50:30) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Hey, bowl, that's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:38.4	It is Friday, 815, 2025. And I had the best day yesterday.
0:46.2	All the announcements, the NBA schedule release we're going to get to next.
0:50.8	MLB, and a great article in The Athletic, which you should subscribe to, which Andrew Marchand came out with all of the details about what MLB is doing with its TV deal.
1:02.3	And the only thing I could think about as I was doing what I guess is modern day whirdle or any sort of game trying to stay sharp as you get older you got to do
1:13.2	things to stay sharp crossword puzzles or just work do a show every day do something yesterday i was
1:22.6	doing what i thought was a van diagram looked it up wasn't then i thought it was a flow chart looked it up, wasn't. Then I thought it was a flow chart,
1:28.3	looked it up, remembered wasn't. Then I thought it could have been some sort of calculus,
1:32.4	looked it up, no, it wasn't. I was writing down where to watch what I wanted to watch on a daily
1:37.6	basis for different sports. I was trying to come up with and picture this amazing piece of art
1:43.5	as you sit down and create something
1:45.9	that you didn't go to art school for there's no way that it's worth anything at all although your
1:51.7	penmanship may be good and it's a grid like the immaculate grid which shows NFL MLB, NBA.
2:03.2	Then you put days of the week on the X axis.
2:05.7	You put stations on the Y axis.
2:08.2	You have to put Netflix.
2:09.2	You have to put Apple.
2:10.4	You have to put Peacock.
2:13.9	At the very least, you have to put Paramount.
2:16.3	You have to put the network.
2:20.3	You have to put ESPN. You have to put all sorts of things. And you realize that the only chance you have is that you have to have a rotation in your brain.
2:31.3	So when you go to watch something that you want to watch starting immediately,
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