NPDS - Dodgers, Yankees, Mets all after Yoshinobu Yamamoto; Juan Soto using Scott Boras talking points; NBA ejections galore (Episode 951)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: https://davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop/ Today’s word of the day is ‘full court press’ as in pressure as in the clock is ticking as in defense as in aggressive as in Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the most coveted free agent on the market right now. The 25-year Japanese star has met with the Mets in Japan, and now the Yankees and Dodgers in California. (15:00) The San Francisco Giants signed Jung Hoo Lee to a 6-year, $113 million deal. They were in on Ohtani. They made an offer. Not enough. (20:00) Juan Soto met the media as a Yankee for the first time yesterday… via Zoom. What? The Yankees needed to do better. Soto kept deflecting to Scott Boras. Wonderful. (29:15) Review: The Adults. (34:20) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about international Winter Baseball. The Venezuelan League. The Dominican League. Stars are playing. MLB players are getting hurt. (41:07) NPPOD. Nikola Jokic ejected for saying something to the refs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:04.0	go. go. Full Court Press.
0:17.0	Press.
0:18.0	That's the nothing personal phrase of the day.
0:21.0	It is Wednesday, December 13th, 2003, full court press. Not what happens in the
0:27.9	NBA when you start guarding the offense way at the baseline on the inbounds pass after a basket.
0:34.8	Get up, get up, get on them.
0:36.9	Not in this NBA, this day and age where it's just an offensive orgy every single day. Full corecore press is the expression you use in business
0:45.2	when you really want something and you will not stop until you get it,
0:50.0	which is really a bad place to start when you're negotiating.
0:55.0	All of the leverage points that we talk about,
0:58.0	when you have to have a player,
1:00.0	when your owner says to you, that player, full court press is not required.
1:09.0	Because when you really have to get a player, it's a very quick simple meeting. No videos required. No
1:16.0	celebrities saying come play with us in LA. Look at the great public
1:22.1	transportation in Toronto.
1:25.0	The meeting is somewhat different.
1:27.0	All right, what do you got?
1:29.0	What's it going to take?
1:30.0	Just tell me.
1:32.0	And even that may not work if the player doesn't want to be in your city.
1:37.0	A full-core press is going on right now for Yamamoto.
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