MLB says it will begin to crack down on use of foreign substances... will they? (6/7)

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David Samson

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘gotcha’ as in you’re caught as in it’s all over as in MLB says it is going to start cracking down on foreign substances used by pitchers. What does that even mean? (15:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? (18:30) John Rahm was leading the field by 6 strokes at the Memorial Tournament and as he walked off the 18th green he was told he tested positive for COVID. Whoa. PGA immediately told him he had to withdraw. (27:19) Review: Together Together. (31:30 NPPOD. (37:10) Is there parity in the NBA now? No LeBron and no Steph Curry. Are we at a point where teams are this close in terms of competition? (40:42) The Portland Trailblazers fired Terry Stotts over the weekend and Dame Lillard is said to be highly sought after. Portland wants Dame to be involved in the search. Jason Kidd turned down an interview. What will happen here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	God, you're the world of the day. Welcome to Monday, June 7th, 2021. God, when I was a kid,
0:29.2	Coca-cogacha was one of my favorite movies with Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorantino and it was
0:37.8	about this sort of spy-caper thing and I was in love with Linda Fiorantino and Anthony Edwards,
0:45.7	this is before Top Gun, I think, or maybe an after Top Gun, but certainly before he or he had a
0:51.2	full head of hair and he was a kid. So I think it was before Gotcha is the word of the day having
0:56.4	nothing to do with the movie. It has to do with Major League Baseball and it is a new day in
1:02.4	Major League Baseball today, Monday, for the first time ever, foreign substances will no longer be
1:12.6	allowed to be used by pictures. Now we've covered this topic. You may be bored with it, but not when
1:18.4	you hear this. The owners got together last week. They came out of it saying that they were going to
1:24.6	enforce new rules. They were going to figure out a way because the owners had enough, I've been in
1:30.9	those meetings. The owners don't say it that way. The way it's reported, we're not going to take it.
1:37.6	No, we're not going to take it. It's not like that. They're not like, come on, feel the noise. There's
1:42.0	no rioting. It's just conversations. There's little side bars. There's little committee meetings.
1:48.0	There's group meetings. It's really all done and within the commissioner's office and then he gets
1:53.5	a few owners to help them. Then they inform the other ones because it's not a vote. There's no vote.
1:59.0	When there's no vote in an owner's meeting, it means that you have zero say over what's about to
2:04.4	happen. When a team gets sold, there's a vote. Collect Barton agreement gets agreed to. There's a vote.
2:10.6	A team gets relocated. Expansion vote. Let's start MLB dot com vote. How about a network vote?
2:18.4	Expand the playoffs vote. Far and substances. Rule changes like that. Rule changes get votes.
2:28.3	But wait a minute. Trevor Bauer got it right. It's not a rule change that's happening in
2:33.8	Major League Baseball. It's enforcing of an existing rule. It would be as though for whatever
2:42.0	reason all throughout the last 50 years, whenever you got to three balls in a strike, they let the
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