MLB races are heating up: Judge for 62! Judge vs Ohtani MVP! Mets vs Braves NL East battle! Can the Dodgers make history!? (Episode 655)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘race’ as in the chase as in eyes on the prize as in Aaron Judge homerun race, as in Judge vs Ohtani MVP race as in the Yankees race for the AL East as in the Mets vs Braves race for the NL East. This is what baseball wants. They want popular players and teams being in the race from something! (19:20) Serena Williams career is over. One of the greatest to ever do it. Will women’s tennis ever see a talent like that again? (23:25) Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic. Have we seen the end of the tennis Big 3? (32:45) Review: This is 40. (37:45) NPPOD. (44:30) MLB is giving away MLB TV for free to college students. Free subs for everyone! Back to school specials. Why? The youths are the future! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	RACE IS THE NOTHING PERSONAL WORD OF THE DAY IT IS TOOSEDDAY NO VEMBER!
0:23.9	That's one hell of a start. RACE IS THE NOTHING PERSONAL WORD OF THE DAY IT IS SEPTEMBER
0:33.1	6th, 2022 day after Labor Day and I'm not talking about anything other than pennant races,
0:40.3	baseball races, it's September. This is the month that MLB wants to be its second most popular month.
0:47.2	Hours of sitting with marketing people and PR people, you want October as number one when your playoffs
0:54.4	happen. But you want the month leading into your playoffs, you want that to be the month where fans
0:59.8	are beginning to get used to watching baseball every day. You're willing to give up April,
1:04.8	May, June, July, August, but you want it badly in September. So they stood around in the office
1:11.0	and they tried to figure out what are the storylines going to be in September, what are fans going
1:17.3	to be interested in, what will present itself as the catalyst to get people all in during the month
1:26.4	of September. So when October rolls around, yes, everyone's watching MLB playoffs. Of course,
1:33.9	we were always competing with the start of the football season, which was a thing, the start of
1:38.3	college football, which was a thing. So we needed something big and we'd write stuff down.
1:44.7	There'd be lists of possible things because you have to start this sort of in June as you start
1:49.6	putting marketing campaigns together. You start filming commercials, the network, start filming
1:54.0	things that are going to happen pre-game before their national games. So this is a process.
2:00.4	It is possible that MLB and their marketing folk knew exactly all the excitement that was going
2:10.2	to be happening this September or it's possible they're blown away. I think when you have a player
2:16.8	who's trying to repeat MVP for the first time since Miguel Cabrera back 10 years ago,
2:22.7	you're pretty much going to spend some time on that player. And of course I'm talking about
2:26.9	Shohei Otani. Shohei Otani won the MVP last year and my query, which was a simple one,
2:34.1	is if we're going to give him the MVP last year and I would have voted for Vladimir Guerrero,
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