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Nothing Personal with David Samson

🚨 Red Sox penalties FAR LESS than Astros for sign-stealing scandal 🚨

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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David Samson breaks down the breaking news concerning the Boston Red Sox penalties for sign-stealing. ---------------------------   '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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, no sooner did we finish today's episode of Nothing Personal.

0:11.0

That words come down for Major League Baseball on a random Wednesday, 24 hours before the

0:16.0

NFL draft, that they have handed down the punishment to the Boston Red Sox for their role in a

0:22.8

2018 potential sign stealing scandal. We said on Nothing Personal that clearly their punishment

0:30.4

would be far less than what the Astros received. I didn't realize it would be this far.

0:37.1

Alex Cora suspended for 2020. That's okay. He doesn't have a job for 2020. Key point, he

0:44.9

was suspended for his role with the Astros, not with his role for the Red Sox. The Red Sox

0:51.6

lose a 2020 second round pick. That's this year's second round pick. That's the same pick that

0:57.8

you could lose if you sign a free agent or two. It's a big deal, but not a huge deal. Then we get

1:05.5

to the biggest punishment given. They suspended Mr. Watkins. Do you know who that is? He's their

1:16.2

replay coordinator. He is suspended for all of 2020 and 2021 because MLB found through its

1:24.3

an entire investigation, which they outlined included thousands and thousands of emails and interviews,

1:29.8

Department of Investigations, which is quite good at what it does. The commissioner got involved,

1:33.8

everyone did, and they found that their replay coordinator acted as a rogue employee without

1:41.2

anyone knowing what he was doing. When he was using live game feed to assist players in stealing

1:47.8

signs, let me explain to you who the video coordinator is. That's someone who sits in the video room

1:53.8

who when you see a manager on the phone, that manager is speaking to the replay coordinator.

1:59.8

That replay coordinator has 10 TVs in front of him every single in house feed angle. They see

2:06.6

everything. They tell the manager whether or not they should challenge a play. Do you know who

2:11.2

speaks to the replay coordinator? Everybody. Players, coaches, manager, general manager, team

2:18.0

president, team owner, everybody knows the replay coordinator. This is not some intern in analytics that

2:24.2

sits in a back desk where no one has heard of him or sees him and he comes out of his tunnel every

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