Not a great start to the week for the New York Mets; New York Rangers did something I've never seen before (5/5)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘MRI’ as in Jacob deGrom had to get one yesterday and the panic button was smashed by the Mets. deGrom was supposed to start on Tuesday night, but was scratched late with a lat issue. Let me break down what happens in these situations — from the call to the decision to scratch to the MRI to now. (13:31) Yesterday we spoke about the Mets firing hitting coaches. Today we talk about the hitters talking about the hitting coaches being fired. That’s what happens in a rain delay. Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor didn’t sound happy about the move. (30:58) Review: Like Father (35:47) The New York Rangers are furious. They released one of the strongest statements ever condemning Tom Wilson and the NHL. This needs to be discussed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	M-R-I. Nothing personal. Word of the day is magnetic. Resonance, imaging. MRI is what
0:29.9	we do to players when they're hurt and we can't figure out what's wrong. I get them in a MRI.
0:34.6	Normal people, you have to get insurance to approve it. If you don't have insurance, it costs
0:38.7	thousands of dollars. But when you're a team, before you get a team doctor and you sign up for
0:43.8	a hospital you affiliate with because their sponsor is Yada Yada, you have to make sure of one thing.
0:49.6	You can get access to an MRI tube whenever and wherever in the world you are. Hard stop.
0:57.9	MRI is something that is used to confirm an injury, to find an injury, to help a player's state of
1:06.1	mind, to help a team state of mind to provide clarification about timing of recovery rehab.
1:13.7	Sometimes you do x-rays to start. You see if you can see something, but MRIs for generally
1:18.9	tissue injuries, hamstrings, obliques, lats, elbows, you are getting in the tube.
1:26.2	And when you're in the tube, it makes all this noise and it's very claustrophobic. I think many of
1:32.0	you may have had an MRI or maybe not. I've had a bunch of them for running stuff. But it's
1:38.8	scary because they're watching. So you're in this tube. You close your eyes and then there's
1:45.2	radiologists and other doctors who are behind a glass partition because it's totally full of
1:51.1	radiation and everything else that's in theory bad for you worse than an oblique or a lat. But
1:56.8	you're in it. It's making noise. What it's doing, it's taking tons and tons of pictures.
2:00.5	Then the MRI is completed. You get out of the tube and you say as the patient, as the player,
2:05.8	as the executive and they say, wow, we'll call your doctor.
2:09.8	Teams say we're awaiting MRI results. You've heard me tell you this, which makes me smile. When
2:15.4	teams say we are awaiting MRI results, there is no awaiting MRI results. When we put a player in the
2:20.6	tube, two seconds after the player is out of the tube, the phone is ringing from the radiologists
2:27.0	to the team doctor, to the trainer, to the GM, to the president. It doesn't matter what time of day
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