MLB Postseason: Dead arms, long games, any other problems?; MLB's historic Minor League Baseball housing announcement (10/18)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘final four’ as in there are only four teams left in Major League Baseball as in the Dodgers are down two games to none against the Braves, the Astros and Red Sox are tied at one game apiece. What’s the problem though? The games are too long. Pitchers have pitched so much these past two seasons that their arms are just what Max Scherzer said… dead. (14:10) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the release that MLB would begin paying for Minor League Baseball players housing. They wanted to know if this was something MLB did because of the upcoming CBA negotiations. (31:40) Review: Goliath Season 5. (35:25) NFL says it found no other current personnel have sent bad emails. Do you believe them? (39:45) NPPOD. (44:25) The Washington Football Team held its jersey retirement on Sunday for Sean Taylor. Gave fans 3 days to get ready. Let VIPs stand on the painted sideline logo. Owner of the team wore a hoodie and baggy khakis. Just another day for WFT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.1	Final 4. Nothing personal word of the day today is Monday, October 18th.
0:55.2	We are more than halfway through October. Final 4, as in there are only four teams left,
1:00.8	and Major League Baseball. CBS got Final 4 to be associated so deeply with NCAA.
1:08.0	Maybe you had nothing to do with CBS, and it's always been Final 4 for the NCAA tournament.
1:13.0	But that's how I was associated with college basketball or men's, women's.
1:17.6	But to me, semi-finals, Final 4, those are synonyms, League Championship Series. That's where it
1:23.2	is in baseball. Are you staying up late? I am. You know, I don't like that people don't understand why
1:31.2	I am upset about four-hour games. The problem with four-hour games is that people are not watching.
1:39.7	And we talk about it so much internally, and people say, no, don't worry, it's the playoffs.
1:45.1	People watch anything. It's a tight game. Don't you worry. Well, when you have to watch until midnight
1:51.2	every day on the East Coast, because your favorite team is on the East Coast, and who are the teams
1:56.9	playing? Atlanta's East Coast, Red Sox or East Coast, Houston is Central and Dodgers are West.
2:03.8	So people in LA are fine. I'm not fine. I don't think it's fair to tell someone to allocate
2:11.6	one-sixth of their day, every day, to a baseball game. And that's assuming no sleep.
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