MLB Opt Season: Is Gerrit Cole going to stay a Yankee?; NFL season full of BAD football teams!; Jason Kelce and Joel Embiid incidents (Episode 1161)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘deadline’ as in players and teams are facing a deadline as in Gerrit Cole as in Yankees as in Scott Boras. The Yankees have until 5pm today to agree to a deal with Gerrit Cole or he’s a free agent. The Yankees already declined a deal with Anthony Rizzo. Let’s update the Boras Four from last offseason. (17:05) There is so much bad in the NFL right now. Nine teams with 2 losses. 11 teams fighting for the first overall pick. How did we get here? (31:15) Review: Woman of the Hour. (35:30) Jason Kelce got into it with a fan over the weekend at Penn State. Let’s discuss what happened, why it should not have happened, and what can happen now. (42:09) Joel Embiid gets into a locker room incident with a reporter. Another big uh oh. (46:20) NPPOD. (48:20) We have one day until Election Day. What are the candidates up to? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Deadline. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Monday, November 4th,
0:20.2	2024.
0:22.6	Players and teams are facing a deadline.
0:27.2	The deadline always happens right after the World Series, where free agents to be have to
0:31.3	decide are they going to declare free agency?
0:34.5	Yeah, if they have no other choice.
0:36.6	Players with opt-ins or opt-outs have to decide
0:39.6	what they're going to do. This is a day that didn't used to be as big a deal when I first
0:46.1	started in this industry, but man, it has changed because all of these deals that are signed
0:51.5	have these opt-outs. People misunderstood a tweet from the weekend,
0:57.7	so I want to be clear why an opt-out can never be good for a team. The reason is that a player
1:04.5	who has an opt-out, they have the benefit of looking at their season going out to the market totally illegally
1:12.3	because they are part of a team, measuring what their worth is, and then deciding whether
1:20.3	their worth is greater than the value of their contract that they would be quote unquote
1:25.1	opting into.
1:26.8	And then they do a math equation, go to the team that they're on quote unquote opting into and then they do a math equation go to the
1:30.2	team that they're on and say hey i'm opting out and then the team all of a sudden has to decide
1:36.0	all right is there anything we can do to stop the opt out there are certain contracts that give a team
1:43.1	some sort of action they can take.
1:45.9	And there's other contracts where there is no action that a team can take.
1:50.0	So, for example, Blake Snell opted out of his deal, one of the Boris clients from last year.
1:55.3	He signed that deal really late into spring with the Giants and it had an opt-out.
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