Nationals fire GM AND Manager! Pirates CANNOT get Paul Skenes wins! MLB All-Star snubs!? (Episode 1308 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/auction-lunch-with-david-samson-of-nothing-personal-3220102 Today’s word of the day is ‘unceremonious’ as in Mike Rizzo as in Dave MArtinerz as in the Washington Nationals as in fired. That’s right, same day as two Nationals make the All-Star team, the owner fires the GM and manager. Why now? Well, the team has been bad bad bad, but the timing is just odd. (18:00) Paul Skenes can’t get a win. 42 career starts and 17 No Decisions. And it’s not like he’s been bad! He’s been an ACE! (23:00) How should you react during a surprise season? With the MLB trade deadline fast approaching we take a look at three teams: Marlins, Orioles, Braves. How should they each respond? (35:20) Review: Echo Valley. (37:40) MLB All-Star rosters are close to complete. Clayton Kershaw got in as a Legend pick. Nice. Who were the biggest snubs? (48:20) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Uncernous.
0:37.0	Unceremonious.
0:55.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Monday 775. Unceremonious is what happened to the general manager, president of baseball operations. Mike Rizzo, long time. Been there since 2007. Canned. Dave Martinez,
0:56.2	World Series winning manager.
0:58.9	Gone.
1:00.4	A twofer.
1:01.9	Totally unceremonious.
1:03.7	The day all stars were announced,
1:06.6	including two of the Nationals players
1:09.8	who the Nationals received in the trade with the Padres for Juan Soto.
1:16.1	McKenzie Gore. You are an all-star.
1:21.5	Let me give you the process here.
1:24.1	Because I know the Lerner family and you know that Ted Lerner I was extremely close to.
1:32.0	He was the patriarch of the Lerner family. He bought the Nationals from Major League Baseball.
1:41.1	They had Mike Rizzo and they had a team that was run extremely responsibly they got a lot of
1:48.2	negative attention the same we bonded over that because they were accused of being
1:52.9	penurious as were we they were accused of running it as a business ted learner waserner was a businessman, except he also loved baseball.
2:04.6	And he brought Major League Baseball back to Washington. But part of what Ted Lerner had was a big
2:10.1	family. There were sons. There were daughters. There were sons in law. There were grandchildren.
2:15.7	All sorts of people, although the grandchildren weren't
2:18.1	involved in the running of the team. But the son who was always going to take over was Mark
2:23.9	Lerner. But that was only for baseball succession plan. Mark Lerner is just one of the children,
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