Red Sox front office says NO CHANCE Devers situation could have been fixed! OKC takes series lead! Ohtani returns! (Episode 1298 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘alignment’ as in Red Sox as in Rafael Devers as in Sam Kennedy as in Craig Breslow. That was the buzz word. What did Boston’s front office have to say? The usual! Another big surprise was how David Ortiz took to the media to defend the Red Sox. Never go against the family! (21:40) The Oklahoma City Thunder have finally taken a series lead! Up 3-2 now after Jalen Williams and SGA had themselves a game. Tyrese Haliburton re-injured his calf and was held without a field goal! (30:20) Review Rolling Along. (35:20) Shohei Ohtani has returned for the Dodgers. He pitched 1 inning. That’s it. But he had the juice! (42:40) NPPOD. (45:00) Ippei Mizuhara is on his way to prison. The day Ohtani gets his start. LOL. (48:00) Gage Wood threw a no-hitter in the College World Series yesterday! 19 strikeouts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Alignment.
0:37.1	That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, June 17th,
0:42.6	2025. Alignment is our word of the day. Alignment. We couldn't find alignment. You failed to reach alignment.
0:51.5	It just was that alignment. Alignment. Alignment of complete alignment. We weren't able to achieve that alignment. It just was that alignment, alignment, alignment of complete alignment.
0:55.0	We weren't able to achieve that alignment.
0:57.0	You never want to be in this situation where you can't find alignment.
1:03.0	We can't get to alignment.
1:07.0	Failing to reach that alignment.
1:09.0	I also shoulder a significant responsibility here and, you know, failing to reach that alignment. I think I also shoulder a significant responsibility here.
1:11.8	And, you know, failing to reach that alignment. Ultimately, as Sam has pointed out, you know, this kind of lack of alignment, we fail to reach that alignment.
1:21.9	Came to the conclusion that we did not have full alignment. We moved on.
1:28.9	That was Sam Kennedy, the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox and Craig Breslo,
1:34.9	the new chief baseball officer.
1:37.2	He's been there two years for the Red Sox.
1:39.6	They had a media availability yesterday on Zoom.
1:48.2	And alignment was clearly on their minds.
1:54.7	I want to break down what happened yesterday because it's pretty fascinating, but first I should tell you, I assume Coco will whisper sweet nothings in my right ear.
2:01.6	That somebody was in the chat, YouTube, live.
2:06.6	Nothing personal with David Sampson.
2:08.6	If you guess the word of the day, whoever is first,
2:12.6	you get a piece of free merch at David Sampson Podcast.com we'll reach out to you you reach out to us we will
2:20.5	get it done for you if you can predict where my head is during a particular day particular topic
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