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Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘opt-in’ as opposed to opt-out, or what players did at the start of the season. This opt-in is about players choosing to pick up the option on their deals for next season or longer. Giancarlo Stanton has opted in to his long term deal with the Yankees. J.D. Martinez has decided to opt-in to his deal with the Boston Red Sox. What exactly does this mean for the player and the team (0:06)? So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me what a qualifying offer is. Let’s go into some detail about what these offers are, what they mean, and how they work. Trevor Bauer, Kevin Gausman, DJ LeMahieu, JT Realmuto, George Springer, Marcus Stroman - those are the candidates this year (11:06). Review - 537 Votes and Mt. Rushmore of Sean Connery films (24:30). The NFL has some issues. Some really big issues. What is going on with the NFL testing protocols? How could a Baltimore Ravens player and a Green Bay Packers player possibly play in a game and then test positive after the game but the test was taken before the game? Someone please explain this (30:45). It has happened. New York Mets fans are partying through Queens. Steve Cohen was approved as the new owner of the team. Everything Steve Cohen has done since the announcement has been perfect… (39:30) #waittosee -------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn 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/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:03.7	Here you go.
0:07.7	Opt in.
0:09.7	Opt in.
0:10.7	It's a nothing personal word of the day for November 2nd.
0:13.3	Today is Monday, November 2nd.
0:15.2	We are one day until election day, which will be November 3rd, 2020.
0:20.1	Opt in is my word of the day.
0:21.6	It means a lot of things, actually.
0:23.6	You know, we used to one day, one episode today is episode 248.
0:29.3	So plus sit downs and bonuses and things like that.
0:32.1	But we used opt out as a word of the day, but not opt in.
0:37.3	So in 2020, this is such a 2020 concept, the opt in concept.
0:45.7	So let me give you some background why I'm thinking about this today.
0:49.1	You may have read if you're in Boston that JT Martinez has opted in to the remaining
0:56.0	two years and $38 million in that range of his contract.
1:01.9	If you're in New York, you may have read that John Carlos Stanton has opted in to his
1:08.4	seven year, $210 million that remain from the original 13, 325 that he signed with the
1:16.4	Marlins back in 2014.
1:20.4	Opt in means that a player has a long term contract.
1:26.2	Let's do easy math and say four years at 20 million a year.
1:32.0	And there is an opt in after two years, which really is the same as an opt out, but it's
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