MLB Opening Day like you've never heard before (3/26)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'hope' because that's what Opening Day is in MLB . It's hope: winning the World Series, making the playoffs, winning today, not finishing in last place. It's all hope (0:06) So You Wanna Talk To Samson! is special today. People wanted to know about some Opening Days I've been apart of. Let's start with my first ever game... Montreal Expos (2:26). Next up is my first game with the then Florida Marlins (9:02). Can't forget about the time we ran out of hot dogs during our home opener (14:20). Opening Day after winning the World Series was a surreal moment (17:00). Ah yes, 2012, the Marlins Park debut with Muhammad Ali (19:48). Does anyone remember the time the Marlins had a rain delay inside a stadium with a roof? I do (28:49). I'll end today with my final home opener in 2017, the first one without Jose Fernandez, and what that meant to me (32:52). I did the same thing every Opening Day for 18 years... here's what it was. #waittosee --------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:07.0	Hope.
0:08.0	It's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:11.7	Today is March 26th.
0:14.0	A day that we all knew about inside the industry almost a year ago, maybe eight, nine months
0:20.7	ago.
0:21.7	See, the schedule comes out from age league baseball, the following season.
0:24.0	You get your first draft in the middle of June.
0:28.5	There's even earlier.
0:29.9	And then there's back and forth and questions and you look to see when you're opening days.
0:33.5	That's the first thing you look at.
0:35.2	Then you look to see who your home opponents are as you start building your revenue models.
0:40.0	March 26th opening day.
0:43.0	Every opening day you have hope.
0:44.2	You have hope that this will be the year a year, no matter what the prognosticators say.
0:48.9	No matter what you believe to be true about your team, you start this season in first place.
0:55.9	That's something we would tell the players at an opening day team meeting every year.
1:00.2	We'd have a team meeting opening day.
1:02.4	We would address the team and I would always say the same thing, maybe in different ways,
1:07.4	different angles, depending on what was going on.
1:09.8	But I would always say this.
1:12.4	We have a story to write over the next 162 games.
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