Phillies hire Dave Dombrowski; Why did Clippers pay Paul George?

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘country’ as in country music as in Nashville, TN, as in Nashville wanted a baseball team and Dave Dombrowski was supposed to be the guy that got the team there. Well, now he’s been hired as the president of baseball ops for the Philadelphia Phillies. Wait! I thought he was committed to Nashville! How did this happen? Was this a mistake (0:06)? Los Angeles Clippers signed Paul George to a massive 4-year, $176M extension! Holy smokes! Why did a team that’s as dysfunctional as the Clippers sign George to a deal like that (12:37)? So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if I agree that professional athletes should get preferential treatment of the COVID vaccine (19:30). Review - Sound of Metal (37:00). Happy Hanukkah! Let’s do 8 MLB predictions to end the show (42:15)! #waittosee -------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go. Here you go.
0:07.0	Country. We're the day today, Friday, December 11, 2020, is country as in country music.
0:16.0	Who's your favorite country music artist? Like Casey Musgraves.
0:20.0	Or is it Casey Musgrave? I saw her perform in a award show, immediately fell in love with her and her music.
0:26.0	I actually like country music. Nashville. Country. Nashville. Why am I talking about Nashville?
0:34.0	Koka, have you ever been to Nashville? I'm talking about Nashville because they're trying to get a baseball team in Nashville.
0:40.0	And they thought that it'd be good to put together an ownership group.
0:43.0	I would think Justin Timberlake maybe in that group, but I could be wrong.
0:47.0	I do know someone who is in that group and was until yesterday. His name is Dave Dumbbrowski.
0:54.0	Dave Dumbbrowski is a general manager in baseball. He was the general manager of the Montreal Expose before I got to Montreal.
1:02.0	He bailed for Montreal when that team was being sold.
1:06.0	He then went to Florida. Actually, he bailed a few years before it was being sold.
1:11.0	He went to Florida. And in 1997, Dave Dumbbrowski won a World Series with the Marlins. He was the GM.
1:18.0	First GM of that team. Then he left and went to Detroit.
1:25.0	He took with him a lot of employees from Florida. He went to Detroit and he built a team for a couple of years.
1:29.0	They were good. He signed a bunch of big contracts. They never won the World Series, but they made it to the World Series.
1:34.0	Yada Yada Yada. He left there. He then went to Boston.
1:38.0	Did okay and Boston won a World Series. Signed a bunch of players. Yada Yada. Then he was fired.
1:45.0	I've known Dave Dumbbrowski since the first day I got into baseball in 1999.
1:52.0	We didn't heard that he was going to be part of an ownership group in Nashville.
1:58.0	He finally got a piece of a pie. It's the dream, right?
2:03.0	Oh, it's the piece of the pie. You want it?
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