Pedro Martinez latest to make excuses for Fernando Tatis Jr; Padres cancel Tatis bobblehead giveaway; Yankees continue to crumble (Episode 642)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘blame’ as in let’s play the blame game as in it was your fault not mine as in Pedro Martinez was on national television yesterday blaming the San Diego Padres for failing Fernando Tatis Jr. Yes. That happened. Pedro started off great saying there are no excuses for what Tatis Jr. did. And then suddenly he placed all the blame on the Padres! (16:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Padres getting away from a Tatis Jr. giveaway for a Juan Soto giveaway. (29:35) Review: Not Okay. (34:00) Rodolfo Castros was suspended by MLB for one game after his cell phone fell out of his pocket sliding into 3rd base. It had to happen. Here is why. (37:30) NPPOD. (39:55) What is going on with the Yankees? They have completely fell apart since the All Star Break. They made moves at the deadline. Injuries are piling up. What happened? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Blame is the nothing personal word of the day.
0:24.8	Blame is the day of August 17, 2022.
0:30.3	That's when you do something wrong and you have to explain it.
0:33.9	You say, well, I only did that because someone else made me do it.
0:37.5	Someone else said something to me that caused me to do it.
0:41.4	Explaining what something happened, why someone did what they did, because they experienced
0:46.2	something.
0:47.4	Blame is something that is supposed to hide all ills.
0:52.4	Last night, I watched a seven minute segment on a network partner of Major League Baseball,
0:58.5	TBS during the pre-game show of their game of the day, which was the Yankees Rays, which
1:05.0	we'll get to later in the show, I hope.
1:07.9	Of course, when a pre-game show is put together on one of the networks, whether it's MLB Network
1:14.0	ESPN or TBS, that run of show, right, segments, the run down, that is discussed internally.
1:21.9	It is put together by producers.
1:23.9	You then go to the on-air talent and say, this is what we're going to talk about.
1:28.1	On MLB Network, there is an approval process.
1:31.2	There is nothing that gets talked about that is not approved by the commissioner's office
1:35.5	and the owners.
1:37.0	No one's turning on MLB Network and saying, oh my god, you're talking about Blank.
1:41.2	We said no when they say no, it's no.
1:45.1	Government owned it.
1:47.2	On TBS, they're able, because they need credibility, they have to talk about the biggest
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