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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB/MLBPA reached deal on 2020 season: Here's what to know (3/27)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'agreement' as in the MLB and MLBPA reached on on all the details of the 2020 season. We've all been waiting for this. It was released that the owners voted unanimously on this, but that's not really true, and here's why (0:06). The biggest issue was always going to be service time and now we know that Mookie Betts will be a free agent this offseason NO MATTER WHAT. Let's talk a little about salary arbitration and what the means (8:36). Another big obstacle was going to be the MLB draft and it looks like it will still go on... but with a twist! When will the season start? No one knows for sure, but this has to happen first (19:49). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Time to set sails on Carnival cruise ship for a second... not actually... someone asked me why billionaire owner Mickey Arison couldn't just bail out his own company (31:22). Review - Tiger King (38:16)! Remember That One Time...when the Arizona Diamondbacks won the 2001 World Series... well this is what you didn't know about that final Louis Gonzalez at-bat (40:04). MLBeard Challenge Day 11/12: Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Angels (42:23) #waittosee ---------------------------   'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go. Here you go.

0:06.6

Agreement, the nothing personal word of the day today, is agreement. How great is that word

0:13.7

for today? It's the agreement between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball

0:18.3

Players Association. No, it's not the collective bargaining agreement. I'm calling it the

0:24.7

coronavirus agreement or the COVID-19 agreement or maybe the COVID-2020 agreement or the I can't

0:34.5

believe we're not playing baseball and it's past opening day agreement or the how amazing

0:41.0

is it that the players and owners got together and solved some serious financial issues

0:47.4

agreement or oh this could be the number one name for the agreement. It's the

0:54.1

whole your nose. I can't believe I agreed to that agreement and both sides are saying it.

1:00.2

So let's break it down and P. A. D. S. Word of the day. It's agreement. So let's start with there

1:09.1

was just a vote today by the owners. The way it works with any agreement between management and

1:13.9

players is first the players vote on it which they did. They approved the agreement. What name did we

1:21.4

choose? Coca I don't know. Let's see if he has any interest in choosing one of the names for our

1:27.2

agreement. They're agreement. The agreement the extra IR is really up to you. So the players voted

1:35.9

today. The owners got together on a call and they voted and it was announced as all good

1:42.8

announcements are that the vote was approved by all 30 clubs unanimously. So let me bring you

1:52.2

inside an owner's meeting and a vote and let me tell you a story about what happens when maybe a

1:58.6

vote happens that's not unanimous. Back in the early days of owner's meetings my first several

2:04.8

meetings the Yankees were always a team under George Steinbrenner. He would be famous for abstaining.

2:11.1

So the vote would be 29 to zero with one abstention and that would be the Yankees. Then there'd be times

2:17.5

that Peter Angeloz would abstain or vote no. There were times when we voted notice something

2:23.0

like the vote on contraction. When there was a vote to contract the expose or to pursue contraction

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