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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Politics are starting to weaponize sports (7/8)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'dangerous' as in the WNBA is in a pickle over comments from Sen. Kelly Loeffler. She is completely against Black Lives Matter being on the court during the WNBA games. Players are upset. Sen. Loeffler is a part owner of the Atlanta Dream. What happens next (0:06)? So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Marlins having the same facial hair policy as the Yankees. Andrew McCutchen said that the policy “takes away from our individualism”. So what was my position as president of the Marlins and has that position changed (16:22). Review - King of Staten Island (28:30). Aaron Judge says he's game-ready. Craig Kimbrel is already giving up home runs for the Cubs. Let's have a discussion about the readiness of MLB players (36:05). #waittosee --------------------------- Nominate Nothing Personal with David Samson for the People's Choice Podcast Awards: http://podcastawards.com/app/signup/  '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

There you go. There you go.

0:08.7

Dangerous.

0:10.9

The nothing personal word of the day is dangerous,

0:14.6

as in a dangerous precedent.

0:18.8

As in a conversation that we are about to have, about precedent, about opinion, about freedom

0:27.7

of expression, freedom of speech, and what it is to run a team, own a team, have an opinion,

0:37.6

state an opinion, and then get punished because of an opinion.

0:46.6

What's been happening in the last several months since the murder of George Floyd is there

0:52.8

has been renewed debate, there's been renewed conversation. The first day we did a show,

0:58.8

it's got to be, I don't know, coca's it four weeks ago, six weeks ago, two weeks ago,

1:04.2

we did a Monday show where we spend 45 minutes talking about race and talking about platforms

1:09.8

and using the platform to have discussions. There have been tremendous discussions.

1:16.6

When you have discussions on an issue, by definition, there will be people you do not

1:20.5

agree with. There will be people who say things that hurt your ears so badly that you

1:25.7

don't ever want to hear them talk again. There will be people who have views and thoughts

1:32.2

that are so different than yours that you can't possibly understand how they could think

1:39.0

the way they think or say the things they say. But the whole genesis of our country is

1:45.2

that freedom of speech. And it's a line that sometimes is very difficult to walk.

1:51.9

Why do I have dangerous is that nothing personal word of the day because the WNBA, the Women's

1:59.6

National Basketball Association, has found itself in a bit of a pickle. And the pickle

2:06.1

revolves a Republican senator named Kelly Laughler. Kelly Laughler is from Georgia. She was

2:13.2

appointed in a special election midterm in Georgia. She is running again this coming November.

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