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Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'acclimatization' as in sports leagues around the world are starting to get real funky (0:06). In Belarus, soccer leagues are using cutouts to have in the stands, while in Taiwan, teams are using ROBOT MANNEQUINS to fill the stadium (1:24)! The Chicago Bulls hired a new head of basketball ops in a late Wednesday night release. How did this happen? Did the Bulls know Arturas Karnisovas was always their guy? Are the Bulls making smart decisions (3:20)? The NBA is back! Well, not quite, but kind of! It was announced today that a game of H-O-R-S-E will be played and televised starring some NBA and WBNA players (10:27). How does Dave Roberts know that Mookie Betts is happy to be a Dodger? Why do we care even if he is (15:49)!? So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if I have been watching the replays of the old Marlins playoff runs that have been televised... my answer might surprise you (24:50). Review - Citizen Kane (28:25). Todd Gurley and Clay Matthews took to Twitter to call out the Los Angeles Rams over payments they hadn't received and I'm a little annoyed (32:48). MLBeard Challenge Day 25: Seattle Mariners (and a quick Ichiro story) (38:45). Who wins the inaugural Quarantine NBA H-O-R-S-E challenge!? #waittosee ---------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A climatization, that's your nothing personal word of the day.
0:11.9	A climatization is a hard work to say.
0:14.5	It means basically you take what's around you and you acclimate.
0:19.3	That's another way of saying it's a game of adjustments.
0:23.0	Why am I saying it because teams are doing anything they can to figure out how to make
0:27.1	adjustments giving the reality of team sports?
0:30.7	And there's a soccer team they call football, we call it soccer.
0:34.6	Well if you're listening not in the US, then you call it football and in the US we call
0:39.6	it soccer.
0:41.1	In any case in Belarus they decided that they were going to use cut-ins as fans.
0:47.2	Not a cut-in like hey we're cutting into your show.
0:49.9	They were actually going to cut out a fan, then put in they cut out of the fan in the
0:57.4	stands with a picture of the face of the fan which had been emailed in with a virtual
1:06.1	ticket purchased and a donation made to charity.
1:09.8	You got that?
1:11.5	That means that to have fans in the stands they took cut-outs and they pasted on the faces
1:18.2	of fans who are willing and bella roost to buy a ticket and donate it to charity.
1:23.5	And that's not even the best one.
1:25.4	The best one is happening in Taiwan with the Rakuten, the Rakuten, the Rakuten, the Rakuten
1:34.3	monkeys of the Taiwanese baseball league.
1:37.0	They are using actual robot mannequins as fans.
1:41.6	Actual robots.
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