New York Rangers dealing with Russian politics; More on the Seattle Mariners shakeup (2/23)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘spotics’ as in the intersection of sports and politics as in Muhammad Ali was big in the world of spotics as in what’s happening right now with a New York Rangers star is so crazy it needs to be talked about. Rangers player Artemi Panarin has taken a leave of absence after he was accused of abusing a woman years ago by his old hockey coach in Latvia. This comes after Panarin has been very vocal about his dislike for Russian president Vladimir Putin. (12:38) It didn’t take long for Mariners president Kevin Mather to resign. WE told you this was going to happen. Seattle owner John Stanton spoke to the media about the situation, MLBPA released a statement on the situation, what does this all mean? (27:25) Mike Trout speaks to the media. He’s the best player in baseball and he hasn’t won a single postseason game. Woof. (34:57) Review: News of the World. (38:10) NPPOD. (39:34) SYWTTS: Someone asked me what I thought about Jeff Bezos trying to own an NFL team. Will one of the richest men in the world get into the NFL? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go. Here you go.
0:14.1	Spotics. Spotics is the nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.0	That is the intersection of sports and politics.
0:23.8	Spotics has been going on for a long time.
0:27.0	I don't want to say Muhammad Ali started it because I think that'd be
0:29.5	inaccurate. Obviously very famous for his involvement in politics.
0:33.7	Greatest box or legend, but it is continued through the years
0:39.1	and a lot during the course of this past presidential election through the course
0:43.6	of 2020 through COVID, et cetera.
0:46.5	So many athletes get involved in politics right now.
0:50.4	Some of them are very well informed. Some of them are less informed,
0:53.6	but there's a new
0:55.6	conversation and it's all about spotics.
1:00.0	Why am I bringing this up today is word of the day because something happened
1:03.2	in hockey. It's our second hockey segment to lead off a show recently,
1:07.5	Koka. Hockey is in the news again.
1:11.2	When I was growing up, my team was the New York Rangers and I loved going to
1:15.2	Rangers games when I could watching Rangers games.
1:17.3	1994 greatest sports year of my career.
1:20.1	Rangers win the Cup.
1:21.8	Pot van still sucks. That probably went over your head, Koka.
1:26.6	And the next made it to game seven of the NBA finals.
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