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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Wild Card Previews and Predictions! Manager carousel begins to spin! (Episode 1357 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘cat stevens’ as in Wild World as in Wild Card as in baseball! It’s the postseason! It’s here! Let’s take a look at these matchups. Red Sox vs Yankees!? Padres vs Cubs!? Reds vs Dodgers!? Tigers vs Guardians!? Let’s go! And let me give you my predictions! (35:40) Review: We Were Liars. (40:00) A lot of manager moves have happened. Yesterday the Giants got rid of Bob Melvin after two seasons. Buster Posey wants his own guy in there. The Rangers got rid of Bruce Bochy. Could he land back in San Francisco? The Twins moved on from Rocco Baldelli after another disappointing season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.2

Thank you. I'm Pat Stevens. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, September 30th,

1:21.1

2005, the final day of September. Kat Stevens, as in Wild World, Kat Stevens, as in the voice that has helped me try to sleep for many, many years and decades, especially recently, a song called Wild World.

1:31.2

And we are in the wild world of the wild card. It's baseball playoff time. And it starts today

1:38.0

with four games, best two out of three, three straight days, one stadium.

1:46.0

It is what baseball, when they got together and changed and expanded playoffs, they loved this.

1:54.9

I, of course, voted against it, Coker.

1:57.9

I preferred the one game, an automatic March madnessness, one and done wild card game. It was

2:05.8

that way for many years. But owners were disappointed saying we can't play a whole season and then

2:12.0

play nine innings and be done. We want to play 18 innings. And so because of travel and TV and the schedule,

2:21.8

so it's not to have the World Series. And with Santa delivering the trophy, the thought was,

2:29.0

all right, how about two out of three? That ain't bad, is it? And that got all the votes.

2:33.7

Of course, when a team loses game

2:36.7

one of this wild card series, which starts today at 1 o'clock with the Tigers and the Guardians,

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