MLB will CRACK DOWN on doctored balls! What's a trade deadline actually like? (3/25)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘substance’ as in foreign substance as in new MLB memo says every ball will be studied. MLB says they will have ball monitors and dugout monitors and substance monitors and every monitor you can think of to make sure pitchers aren’t doctoring the balls. How is this going to work? What is MLB trying to figure out? (13:22) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the NHL firing an official after he was caught on a hot mic saying he wanted to give a penalty to Nashville. (22:26) NPPOD. (25:25) What happens during a trade deadline? How do athletes ask teams about trades? What do they do on deadline day? (35:10) Review: The Last Blockbuster. (39:15) The Washington Football team will be owned in full by Daniel Snyder. Reports say he’ll be in complete control and he’ll be able to buyout the minority owners. Not just that, but the team may keep this name moving forward because of ‘traditions’… always fun to discuss the WFT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go. Here you go.
0:15.3	Substance. Nothing personal word of the day. March 25th today is Thursday. It's a Twitter
0:22.6	space day tonight. If you're listening to this Thursday, if not, not. Substance is the
0:28.7	word of the day. Substance. I associate that with drugs. You're a substance abuser. Don't
0:34.6	take those substances. Those substances will help you perform. It's a performance-enhancing
0:41.3	drug. That's a substance. But I'm talking about substance that's different now. I'm talking
0:47.4	about pine tar. I'm talking about fingernail clippers or nail files or jelly. K.Y. jelly.
0:56.4	Vaseline petroleum jelly. Tell me any foreign substance that can doctor the ball. I wanted
1:06.6	to do doctor as the word of the day. Doctor, doctor. Can't you see I'm burn and burn and
1:13.1	MLB made this big announcement. It was a huge deal. They want everyone to know. We are
1:19.4	now going to be the substance police. Not Coke. Not heroin. Not crack. Not Mary Jane.
1:30.0	They are going to police baseballs. Thank you, God. Finally, MLB is doing something about
1:37.0	the fact that every single pitcher doctors the baseball. GMAB folks here on NPDs give me a
1:50.4	break. Here's the story of what pitchers do to baseballs. You've heard about it. A spit
1:53.4	ball. You know what? Like Gaylord Perry of a Hall of Famer used to throw what's called
1:58.4	a spit ball. Right? He basically put spit on the ball. Anything you put on a baseball,
2:04.4	does what? So baseball is a circular object. And it goes through the air. I'm not doing
2:13.6	a physics class because I'm not a physician or a physicist or any way involved are interested
2:19.2	in physics other than what I know is when I'm walking and something gets in front of
2:23.5	me that's solid and I hit it, I stop moving in that direction. That's what I know. When
2:30.1	there's a circular ball that's being thrown, here's the other thing I know. If there's
2:34.6	something on the ball that doesn't make it perfectly circular, it may travel in a different
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