That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Wednesday May 3rd, 2023. Fifth year. Yes,

there's NHL playoffs happening in NBA playoffs. The MLB season is underway, but who doesn't want to talk about the draft and fifth year options?

It's dominating the news, sort of giving into the fact that football is God and King and the most important thing.

And I'm fascinated by it because I spent all those years trying to figure out the draft, trying to reconcile my reality that being successful in the

Major League Baseball draft is incredibly hard, a total crap shoot. Always knowing that the NBA and the NFL much more pressure on the scouts, much more pressure on the GM making the final draft pick, because you can get away when you're a baseball GM or

president of baseball operations and not have your first round or make it get away with that. It's hard to get through a bunch of failures like lottery picks and it happens. Don't get me wrong.

But what we saw yesterday is when Coke and I said, look what's happening here. We got to discuss this.

The NFL has a salary cap. We know this. The NBA is a salary cap. MLB does not.

There are people employed and I mean scores of people who sold job is to get around the salary cap. That's why in the NFL when you see all these deals and you see salary cap casualties.

You see signings where they have empty ears out or they've got clauses where they're being paid this then, but that and the other.

It's all done by people in a back room who are combing through the rules of the collective bargaining agreement in the salary cap and trying to avoid it.

That's the irony, right? It's not really a cap, which is that's why unions are happy with it. The owners can't be happy that they have to employ all those people. It's like rich people hiring people to not pay taxes. Yeah, that happens.

I don't know that I'm a proponent of the flat tax, but man, it would run a lot of people out of a job, wouldn't it?

So part of the thing that the NFL does when you draft someone because they want to make sure that when you're paying a player that you get him not just for the first four years, which is a four year rookie deal.

There's a fifth year option for certain picks in the first round. Then you can do a franchise tag. Then a second franchise tag, but don't worry. It can be exclusive. It can be non exclusive.

You can go out and get an offer sheet and that really works well. You saw Lamar Jackson get 29 offers, which was amazing. Best quarterback can leave. Of course, you'll get that many offers and both more obviously match the offers and then kept them.

Whatever. Of course, that didn't happen.

So this was the deadline yesterday where these teams have to decide how much did I screw up? Am I going to acknowledge it? Or am I going to double down?

I like the double down. The double down is when you meet the media and you say, we are retaining this player. We are keeping this player. We are extending this player because we know what we're doing.

You may not have seen it on the field, but I promise we look at it differently than you do. That's a very pat line that people say when they're in the industry, you don't get it.

Like in your movie industry, you don't see it. Just look at your photographer. Oh, look at this vista. We're live on nothing personal with David Samson in a new studio here in Miami, sort of a new studio. We've been in this studio for two weeks, but using my remote stuff, but cocoa got together with the brilliant people here in metal arc.

Who I think want to rename remain nameless and now we're using studio stuff. So check it out nothing personal with David Samson YouTube channel.

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