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Nothing Personal with David Samson

No need for tiebreakers! MLB postseason baseball is set! Biggest surprises and disappointments (10/4)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘tiebreaker’ as in Game 163 as in inputing the formulas as in MLB media was going nuts telling us about all these scenarios… None of it was needed. The Yankees and Red Sox both won and they were in. Nothing else mattered and it didn’t. Let’s talk about the Wild Card. So it’s set. We’re getting the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Giants, Astros, Cardinals, Rays, Braves, Brewers, and White Sox. Beautiful. (14:50) What are the top 3 surprising teams of 2021? Giants, Rays, Astros. Easy. (15:20) Top 4 disappointments? Mets, Phillies, Twins… and the best team in baseball for a week, the San Diego Padres. (24:55) Review: Free Guy. (27:00) Update on the NWSL fallout; commissioner Lisa Baird stepped down on Friday; games were canceled for the weekend… a mess. (30:55) NPPOD. (31:50) The Ben Simmons saga with the Philadelphia 76ers has gotten crazier. The Sixers are withholding his money and every day he doesn’t show up he is fined, which the team is taking out of money owed. Uh oh. (38:20) Wait to see updates from the MLB season; NL west, Kluber, HR rate, divisional winners — accountability in this industry is important!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tybreaker. Nothing personal.

0:52.7

One of the day, Monday, October 4th, is Tybreaker.

0:56.4

Spent all weekend doing the calculations, had my fingers out, my toes out, going through

1:03.0

total rainman of who plays, who what happens if there's a three-person tie, three team tie,

1:09.0

a 14-tie for the wild card, the giants and Dodgers and the National League West could have tied and

1:15.1

then played today Monday. The reason why MLB puts an off day in between the start of the playoffs

1:22.6

and the end of the regular season is not to give rest to players. They're used to playing every day

1:28.5

or give them travel time. They're used to traveling and then playing.

1:31.5

It's to play Tybreaker games. When we sat down and figured out there'd be another wild card,

1:38.9

I remember being in those meetings, talking about what it meant to be a wild card,

1:43.6

what it meant to have a single elimination game, which was different when the Marlins were the

1:50.8

wild card in 2003, we went right into the division series. We played the team with the best record,

1:56.8

which was San Francisco, that year with Barry Bonds. So winning the wild card, there was one wild

2:02.6

card you go in and you play and you're good. But then they wanted more teams in the playoffs

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