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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Pitchers are MAD: Will MLB change the baseball? Yankees Letter is out... Did we learn anything new? No! EVERY. TEAM. CHEATS! (Episode 585)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘grip’ as in get a grip as in I can’t grip the ball as in Spider Tack as in pitchers are pissed about the new ball. Hitters are frustrated about the new ball. The Mets lead the leagues in HBP with 18 and Pete Alonso has been hit in the head twice. Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt went off last night after the Mets win talking about how bad the ball is and why MLB won’t do anything about it. (11:00) The Yankees Letter was released and it was a whole lot of nothing. Everything we already knew was in there. Nothing new. Every. Team. Cheats! That’s baseball! (21:30) Review: Metal Lords. (26:50) Someone asked me about the Supreme Court case involving a football coach who got in trouble for praying after every game. Why did this go all the way to the Supreme Court? Let me explain! (38:35) NPPOD. (40:55) Jerry West v. HBO is the biggest battle in Hollywood right now. Jerry West is furious about his portrayal in Winning Time. He’s so mad he wants the case to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Hello! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:31.0

Grip, nothing personal word of the day, it's April 27, 2002 and the word is grip. Yes, it's a mid week double on

1:00.0

Tondra, get a grip. That's what pictures and majorly baseball are saying.

1:05.0

Do you remember last year when MLB got rid of spider tack? That's the substance that pictures put on their hand, they put it on their butt.

1:14.0

Did you see Gerracle pitching the other day, Coco? He had that big thing on the back of his butt. When you see a dirty uniform,

1:21.0

we would see these uniforms when a side note, damn it, Coco, I know you don't like it in the first story,

1:26.0

but when players come off the field at the end of the day, they take off their uniforms and their laundry baskets in the clubhouse and they take off their socks,

1:35.0

they take off their cups, they take off their shirts, they take off everything they're wearing and the laundry goes in these baskets and then the clubhouse kids take the laundry and every once in a while you've got

1:46.0

executives in the clubhouse like every day and we notice the laundry and you're sort of looking at, wow do we need to order a more sunscreen or how we doing with the dirt,

1:55.0

that some dust is taking away all kinds of determining that you don't need a mask, let us use the scarab and he looks like somebody hitting the

2:16.7

that offensive players were actually okay with it

2:18.9

because they don't want to get hit in the head.

2:21.0

And if pitchers can't grab the ball,

2:23.7

then they don't exactly know where it's going.

2:26.0

Of course, I was really good at signing players

2:28.9

who could throw 98 and had no idea where the ball was going,

2:32.1

which can make for a very uncomfortable at bat.

2:35.7

So all of the rosin that is used was allowed

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