Pac-2 trying to poach schools from Mountain West! Does MLB need more stars? How can they make them? WNBA has another problem (Episode 1124)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘designation’ as in the Pac-2 as in the Pac-6 as in the Pac-8 as in the Pac-12. What is happening here? Oregon State and Washington State are ready to poach. And who do they have their sights on? The Mountain West! The same conference they had a deal with for scheduling! (9:30) MLB wants to go national. It wants to get away from the regional model. Can it? Are there enough stars? (17:50) NPPOD. (26:05) Review: Ruby Sparks. (29:45) The WNBA is facing another problem. One that could have been avoided, but wasn’t. Commissioner Cath Engelbert had some comments about the Reese and Clark rivalry, and the players are now pissed. (40:50) Josh Harris is in stadium hell. He needs a new stadium for the Commanders. He needs a new stadium for the Sixers. (49:15) There’s an epic battle going on for Chelsea Football Club. Todd Boehly wants control. He may not get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	go. Designation. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the Day. It is Thursday, September 12, 2024. Designation. As in, boy, would it be amazing for the PAC 2 to again be designated as a power 5 conference.
1:30.0	How do we do that?
1:32.0	Who should we poach?
1:34.0	Well, it came out yesterday on Yahoo Sports that the PAC 2 has decided that they're going to attack the Mountain
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