MLS and Apple make major announcements; MLB MVP talk; Why are the Padres for sale? (Episode 1380 Hour 2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

MLS and Apple have waved the white flag on the whole streaming deal. MLS is going to change its schedule to a new format. Apple is going to get out of its deal 3 years earlier than it was supposed to, but not before getting rid of the MLS Season Pass. (14:00) Shohei Ohtani goes back-to-back-to-back. Aaron Judge goes back-to-back. What seasons we saw from both of them. Feel bad for Cal Raleigh. (21:00) The Padres are for sale. We told you this was going to happen. (33:30) Steph Curry and Under Armour are no more. The deal is done. The lifetime agreement is over. (41:30) Let’s breakdown what’s happening in New Orleans sports. The Saints are bad. The Pelicans are worse. And there’s one person in charge of them both… Gayle Benson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nothing Personal.
0:38.8	It's our two.
0:40.8	It's David Sampson.
0:42.9	Coming at you this week, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
0:48.6	I want to start with a big piece of news out of Major League Soccer.
0:54.5	It's not every day we get a calendar change
0:57.2	in professional sports.
1:00.9	There's been leakage in different sports.
1:06.0	I like leakage.
1:07.4	I mean, sometimes it's messy,
1:09.3	but sometimes it's cool.
1:15.2	Super Bowl used to be end of January, January 15th, 19th, 25th, 28th, 29th. Then you started with a little
1:22.5	Feb one action. Then you get to Feb 2, Feb 5 with 18-week season. You're going to get leakage.
1:29.9	It's going to go to President's Day weekend when you have an 18-week season. That's leakage.
1:35.8	November baseball. The playoffs are always in October. There's some leakage.
1:42.0	It's how you get to Mr. November.
1:46.6	Basketball playoffs, a little deep into June.
1:51.8	Leakage is different than a complete change,
1:54.6	which is what Major League Soccer just voted on.
1:56.8	The owners, not the players, that's got to come.
2:00.5	The owners voted to flip the calendar of the
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