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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MLB Wild Card: Rays have RECORD LOW attendance for Game 1 loss!; When is okay to do a champagne shower?; Mariners Pres. has one of the WORST quotes EVER (Episode 903)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Please buy our new shirt! (or some stickers!): davidsamsonpodcast.com Today’s word of the day is ‘elimination’ as in gone as in destroyed as in see you later as in four teams in the Wild Card Round are facing elimination already. It happens that quickly! Let’s start with the Rangers and Rays. Where were the fans? How big of a problem is this? Can you believe there was a live break-in during the Rays-Rangers game? It was an announced that the Speaker of the House had been ousted! What about champagne showers? When are they appropriate? (21:00) The Twins won a postseason game! Can you believe it? (22:45) The Diamondbacks won it. Down early and then the bats came alive. (25:00) Zach Wheeler pitched a gem and the Phillies took Game 1. Can the Marlins fight back? (27:00) NPPOD. (32:15) Review: Only Murders in the Building Season 3. (35:50) Sorry, Mariners fans. This was quite the press conference from Jerry Dipoto. (44:00) Aaron Rodgers is back… in the media, that is. Wonderful! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, just like

0:25.4

that 24 hours after the playoffs started in Major League Baseball. They're already four teams facing

0:32.8

elimination today. It can happen quick, just like life, just ask Ferris Bueller. I want to

0:39.8

talk about the four games that happened yesterday, but before you fast forward, I'm not giving you a

0:44.0

recap of who hit home runs and who played bad defense or good defense or who pitched well.

0:50.0

I want to talk about a few things that happen in each of these games that surprised me. And I think

0:54.8

we'll interest you. Let's start with the Rangers race game. It was the first game of the day.

1:03.6

I'm watching the game and I'm looking around in the first thing I notice. There's a lot of empty seats.

1:12.0

I didn't know because they didn't show me a proper camera angle. I wasn't sure the extent

1:17.2

of the empty seats in Tampa for game one of the National League Wildcard Round, of the

1:22.3

American League Wildcard Round. But different first base third base angles side note. There's a secret

1:29.8

that we have when we operate teams with low attendance. We keep track of the camera angles.

1:37.0

We know what angles our network is showing. And we put people in seats like behind the first

1:44.8

base men behind the third base. And because there's a first base camera and there's a third base

1:49.8

camera and there's a center field camera. So one of the biggest shots that you see the biggest

1:54.7

the most frequent shot you see during a game are the people sitting behind the plate. So it was

2:00.0

always important to us to have people sitting behind the plate. Then when the third base camera is

2:06.0

on you're looking behind the first base. And there's a section that's a little bit toward the

2:10.6

outfield of first base. You want that section full. Same on the third base side. There's nothing

2:16.8

you can really do about the home run shot. Because if there aren't people in the outfield,

2:21.7

it's not ideal. But you don't really place people there on the thought that there's a home run.

2:26.6

Because the view is, hey, if it's a home run, people have enough time to congregate to where the

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