MLB Opening Day: Injuries, pitch clock, stolen bases, dingers, strikeouts - Baseball is so back! (Episode 785)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘observations’ as in Opening Day is here and gone! Are you sad? Are you excited about your team? Let’s go through what happened from MLB Opening Day. Mets place Justin Verlander on the IL before the first game even begins. Braves starter Max Fried left after 3.1 inning after a hamstring injury, come on! (11:25) The new rules are here! Marcus Stroman - violation! Pete Alonso - violation! Rafael Devers - violation! Stolen bases everywhere! (17:35) Shohei Ohtani is back and he’s hitting and pitching. The Los Angeles Angels are back to losing. (21:40) Daniel Bard is taking another leave of absence because of mental health. He had control issues in the WBC and now he’s out for the Rockies. (28:55) Review: Reggie. (34:45) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the idea of an International Division in the NFL. Could it be happening soon? (43:20) NPPOD. Have a great weekend everyone! I'm going to a wedding! No, not my wedding! Let's have some fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm not going to be a
0:02.0	You go, you go
0:04.0	You go
0:16.0	Observations is the nothing personal word of the day. It is Friday. Thank God. It's Friday
0:22.1	March 31st the final day of March the end of the first quarter of
0:27.4	Of 2023 is upon us and the word is observations because I spend all day
0:33.2	Observating
0:35.2	MLB opening day happened game start at one o'clock
0:38.4	I left the CBS studios in Stanford, Connecticut at about one a.m
0:43.7	Made it back and here we are live
0:46.1	Thank you for being a part of nothing personal with David Stamps and let's get into the observations from opening day
0:52.8	The number one observation for me as a former executive
0:57.4	You cross your fingers you want two things on opening day three things on open four you want five things on opening day
1:05.9	You don't want to run out of hot dogs. That's one
1:09.2	You want to sell out your game. That's two you want to win your game. That's three
1:15.3	You don't want anyone to get hurt. That's four either on the field or off the field
1:23.6	Forget the guy who ran on the field at the Dodger game
1:26.0	Check out the video of the guy who proposed. I don't think we can use that video goka, but it's such good video
1:32.0	Don't run on the field and do a proposal. You're gonna get killed
1:36.4	So injuries coming out of spring training
1:39.4	You're made it you break camp you meet with your GM and you say all right
1:45.4	We made it through the rain. We're heading north. We're ready to go
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