MLB Opening Day is here! Marlins Park gets naming rights deal. (4/1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘Opening Day’ as in April 1st as in baseball is back! Last night the New York Mets were able to come to an agreement with superstar Francisco Lindor on a major 10-yr, $341M deal. What else can we look forward to today? What matters most on Opening Day? (9:32) The Washington Nationals already have a COVID problem. It appears that four players will miss Opening Day against the Mets. Not great! (13:21) President Biden spoke to ESPN last night about vaccines, stadium capacity, and spoke about the All Star Game in Georgia. (15:40) The NL West has all the eyeballs this season. The San Diego Padres won the offseason. The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking to repeat. Trevor Bauer is getting his balls ready (his baseballs you sickos!). (25:50) NPPOD. (30:42) Review: The Father. (33:40) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about he Miami Marlins have announced that they have a new TV deal and a naming rights deal and why wasn’t I able to secure a naming rights deal when I was there Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Opening day. It's opening day. It's the best day of the year. Of course, it's April
0:19.9	1st, 2021. I'm not fooling. There is no fooling around today is opening day and
0:25.8	major league baseball. It's an on time departure. There was some concern whether the season would
0:31.8	start on time. There was some concern whether there be a season we didn't know how long the
0:36.2	COVID-19 pandemic would be going on. We assumed it would be done by last July and then last
0:42.7	August and then September, October, November. Here we are. The pandemic is not over at all. It may
0:49.0	become an endemic, by the way. But MLB has said, you know what? We don't have approval of the union.
0:56.3	We are pressing forward with opening day. So I want to talk about several storylines. There was a
1:03.0	bonus episode that was released late last night when we awoke Koka from his slumber. We talked about
1:10.7	the Francisco Lindoor signing. Yes, the Mets have signed a free agent finally. Oh no, no, they didn't.
1:19.0	What are we talking about? Francisco Lindoor is in the last year of team control. He was traded
1:25.6	to the Mets this off season in a blockbuster trade, a great trade for the Mets. He then said that
1:31.5	he needed a new deal by opening day or he would not negotiate again. Steve Cohn said, I hear you.
1:38.2	Yeah. And last night around midnight right before first pitch, you know, 12 hours before plenty of
1:45.3	time for a physical plenty of time to get pen to paper. They agreed to a $341 million deal. We went
1:54.0	into that deal in detail last night on a bonus pod that was released by Koka while he was in
2:01.7	REM. And I don't mean he was losing his religion. Opening day is the type of day that as an executive,
2:10.0	it is your favorite day because you feel as though everything's right. Even when you're supposed to
2:14.6	lose 90 games and all the Dakota projections and everybody says all the betting money says that
2:19.5	forget winning opening day, you're going to lose 90 games throughout the course of the season.
2:24.2	But you go to bed the night before opening day, you lay out your clothes, you wear a tie opening
2:28.7	day, no matter where you are, you look around your ballpark, whether you're at home or on the road
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