Owner's Playbook: Arizona Diamondbacks relocating or just renovations?; Are the Nationals no longer for sale? Stadium Cycle Continues! (Episode 995)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘playbook’ as in the owner’s playbook as in the plan as in stadiums as in public money as in the Arizona Diamondbacks are next on the list. Owner Ken Kendrick spoke about needing money for the stadium. Will they leave Phoenix? Is this a threat? Is it not a threat? (13:02) Are the Washington Nationals no longer for sale? What the heck? Let’s explain this horse hockey! (21:10) Tony Clark met the media and spoke out about the deferred comp, the uniforms, and more! (32:12) Review: Hell Camp - Teen Nightmare. (36:40) What is going on with the Red Sox? Rafael Devers is speaking out about the roster. Does Alex Cora have a future with the team? (45:30) Let’s talk about some Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. Playbook. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, the Playbook is what we all use to get money from you, the taxpayers.
0:30.0	Nah, I'm just kidding, It's not always from taxpayers.
0:33.2	Sometimes it's just public money that is from non-taxpayers.
0:38.0	No. All right. I'm going to come clean.
0:42.0	All the owners get together and they all talk about the
0:46.4	deals and the stadium deals that they all do. It's football, it's basketball,
0:50.9	it's baseball, it's not just me.
0:53.6	And they talk about ways that they do it,
0:55.6	who they meet with, when they meet,
0:57.6	what the playbook is for threatening relocation,
1:00.7	when you meet the media and say certain things, it's all done in a pretty
1:05.3	choreographed way. Now of course sometimes it gets mocked up like the Oakland days.
1:10.3	Sometimes it gets ugly and sloppy and we all know that ugly and sloppy can only be good
1:16.5	some of the time and usually it ends with some sort of public financing.
1:24.1	And what we're seeing now,
1:26.1	even though Tampa and Oakland in Major League Baseball
1:29.2	still do not have a new stadium.
1:32.0	There is no new stadium in Vegas or in St. Petersburg. All the other new
1:36.9	stadiums are not new. And the epiphany I had is that we're about to start the 2024 season.
1:45.0	We know it's coming close because Dave Roberts said
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