MLB Winter Meetings are here and Soto is ready to sign! Why did the Athletics give SEVERINO that money!?; Bill Belichick to UNC!? NO CHANCE! (Episode 1181)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘brrrr’ as in cold as in snow as in winter as in the MLB Winter Meetings are here. Is Juan Soto getting signed? Are more contract being tossed around? Who is spending money? Who is saving money? What is happening!? (9:45) The Athletics signed Luis Severino to a $67 million deal! What? I cannot believe it. Why did they do this? (15:13) The Las Vegas Stadium Authority approved the lease and non-relocation documents yesterday. What does that mean for the Athletics new stadium? Is this a done deal? (20:20) Did the St. Pete City Council vote mean anything yesterday? Anything???? (28:20) Review: Here. (33:00) Bill Belichick interviewed for the UNC job? I mean… cmon. It’s not going to happen! (37:10) Eric Bieniemy is out at UCLA after one year. He was the offensive coordinator in charge of one of the worst offenses in football. (42:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me why SMU is even playing this weekend. Interesting! (47:45) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.2	Please watch responsibly.
0:27.4	Here you go.
0:30.1	Here you go. Burr. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It's the feeling of the day. Yes, it's cold out there, folks. It's cold. Guess what? It's winter meetings time. It's my favorite time a year.
0:57.8	That's not true. I say that all the time thinking you'll forget. Winter can't be my favorite time.
1:03.9	I prefer warmer weather. Baseball is descending upon Dallas. The winter meetings in Dallas.
1:10.1	I've had a bit of a reclaimed tear in my eye,
1:14.4	thinking back to my most memorable winter meetings, which were 2011 in Dallas, same location
1:21.3	where we were the bells of the ball, and it didn't mean a a thing that was the beginning of me realizing that
1:29.8	winning the winter meetings doesn't matter and we'll be doing lists of winners and losers and who's
1:34.8	signed who and who's going where who made the best deals of the winter meetings the worst deals of
1:40.4	the winter meetings winning the off season Andrew Friedman I want to get it done now and not in July.
1:50.0	You go to the winter meetings.
1:51.8	This is great.
1:52.5	You go inside, No, Coco, quick winter meeting story.
1:55.0	You go and check in, and your head is always on a swivel because you always feel
2:00.3	important when you're going to the winter meetings because you're with the big league team or you're the president of a team or the GM of a team or the VP of player personnel.
2:08.6	The managers are there.
2:10.8	The sports psychologists are there.
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