MLB's new ABS is here to stay and umpires are feeling the pressure! When MLB owners speak, fans need to listen! (Episode 1432 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘ABS’ as in automated as in ball-strikes as in system as in challenges as umpires. What a start to the season. Baseball is back, baby! And the challenge system is off and running. The results have been mixed, but it has worked. A whole lot of challenges have worked. (11:30) A bunch of World Baseball Classic pitchers had terrible starts. Coincidence!? (20:17) The San Francisco Giants can’t win. Swept at home. Doom and gloom! Just kidding. But Tony Vitello is going to be under a microscope. (27:00) Bo Bichette got booed by Mets fans. Already!? (29:30) Allow me to speak on the Marlins. (34:50) Review: Band of Brothers. (37:30) The Milwaukee Brewers owner said something that people need to start paying attention to. Mark Attanasio spoke on the $20 million that the team isn’t getting because of RSN fallout. (43:35) The flip side of things is what the Dodgers are doing. Dodgers owner Mark Walter says MLB needs parity. Interesting. (49:40) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The ABS.
0:23.6	ABS, that's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:42.1	It is Monday, March 30th, 20206, and we're talking about baseball because the season started,
0:49.8	and people are losing their minds, and I am here for it.
0:57.1	I respect it. I want you to be fans.
1:02.8	I want you to think that your team is three and oh. You are ready to roll through September.
1:14.0	I want you to look at oh and three and say we're screwed. Come on. The overreaction from the first part of baseball season is one of the most spectacular things because it doesn't happen in other sports. When you win your first football
1:19.6	game of the season in the NFL, you do not change your views of who's going to make the playoffs.
1:27.0	Now when you're 0 and 4, you'll start a few
1:30.3	stats, the only teams to start 0 and 4 to make the playoffs, et cetera. But remember the math.
1:37.7	It's 10 MLB games for every one NFL game, roughly.
1:49.4	Now that there's 17 games, it's not exact. It's like 9.6.
1:56.1	But you know what I'm saying. It's been three whole games.
2:06.7	ABS has become the rule change from this year where everybody has decided that this is what they want to focus on.
2:10.1	When a challenge system happened when NBA coaches were allowed to challenge, when the
2:14.2	red flag was allowed to be thrown in the NFL, it's a note for sure.
2:20.8	But this level of scrutiny for a system just continues the narrative that's been going on for
2:28.3	roughly, oh, I don't know, a century where majorly baseball changes something and everyone views it as
2:37.8	though we have decided to all of a sudden start the year on December 31st and ended on January
2:44.9	1st.
2:46.6	Were there some nuggets from opening weekend that made me smile?
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