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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Preseason Hot Seat already!? Bears in Indiana? No chance! NBA tanking talk has reach PEAK crazy! (Episode 1417 Hour 2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for the preseason hotseat! Jayson Stark wrote about it for The Athletic. Who is getting fired by May? (17:43) Are the Chicago Bears now the Indiana Bears? Are they moving to Iowa? Are they staying in Chicago? (25:49) Mat Ishbia has sounded off on NBA tanking. The NBA is pissed about tanking. Changes are coming. (41:00) Still no WNBA deal. Still fighting. Still think a work stoppage is coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to nothing personal. My name is David Samson. Thank you for joining us. We are in the middle of a blizzard. Everyone stays safe. It's affecting the entire Northeast. Most of the mid-Atlantic. I can only tell you that I don't think that I'll be able to move for at least a day, probably two days.

0:57.8

I got to start with Jason Stark.

1:00.4

How many times do I ask you to subscribe to the athletic?

1:05.5

Please do.

1:06.8

They're not.

1:07.7

They are a partner.

1:08.5

A partner, Pavlatori finds out New York Times Athletic.

1:11.3

Thank you.

1:12.2

I am a subscriber to the athletic.

1:14.8

Jason Stark along with Evendrell at Ken Rosenthal

1:17.3

and so many other greats are giving you so much information

1:21.6

about all sorts of leagues and topics.

1:24.3

I'm starting with Jason Stark because he wrote something

1:27.0

over the weekend that I used

1:29.7

to love reading as a team president. And now as the host of nothing personal, I truly smile

1:37.4

when I hear about the PSHS. The PSHS is the preseason hot seat. It is one of the best things as a fan. Who's on the

1:50.0

hot seat before the season even starts? They do it for every sport. But when you're in the

1:56.0

sport and you're running one of the teams, you always look, are we on the hot seat? Am I in the hot seat?

2:02.1

Is our GM on the hot seat? Is our manager on the hot seat?

2:06.5

Here's a special look into hot seats.

2:11.2

Because the purpose of Jason's article, which is a great read, is that there are a bunch of individuals and teams who start the

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