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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Spring Training: Injuries, injuries, & injuries!; We FINALLY have the new Athletics stadium renderings for Las Vegas! (Episode 1005)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘injuries, injuries, injuries!’ as in Lucas Giolito as in Sonny Gray as in Justin Verlander as in Kyle Bradish as in Kodai Senga. It’s all about spring training injuries and teams trying to avoid this. Giolito signs a big deal for the Red Sox and now he’s done. Sonny Gray will likely miss Opening Day with a hamstring. Justin Verlander will start on the IL. (15:45) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Athletics new renderings… hahahaha. (29:45) Review: All of Us Strangers. (34:00) Let’s talk about the Dartmouth basketball union vote. What happened? What happens next? (43:10) NPPOD. (44:05) Arch Manning has opted out of EA Sports 2025 college football game. Why? To focus on playing field… huh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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go. injuries injuries.

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injuries.

0:48.0

That's a nothing personal word of the day with a call back to the Brady Bunch. This is the time of year in baseball, where

0:56.4

as a fan or as an executive, all you do, it's not even fun anymore. The

1:00.9

Spring training games are not fun. The players are getting more at bats, the pit bull. The people with numbers below 69 getting a few extra at bats. The traveling party is a little

1:16.3

smaller, the cuts have started, but all you do, all you do is wait for a tweet or wait for the next day's paper back in the day.

1:26.4

Wait for a tweet wait for a phone call about the most recent injury

1:31.0

because that's all baseball has become.

1:35.2

It's just every day a new player has a new problem

1:39.8

that causes that player to get paid guaranteed money not to play.

1:44.4

And yesterday, we had a big one, I'd say.

1:50.5

Although, is it a really big injury if it's a Red Sox player when the Red Sox are going to finish in the last place,

1:55.0

it's only a big injury because I want to talk about it.

1:58.0

When you negotiate with players during the off season, let's say a Lucas G. Lido.

2:03.2

And you're all excited to add him to your rotation, you think he's gonna be at the

2:07.4

top of your rotation, and you get him for a very short-term deal because he

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