Remembering 9-11-2001, 20 years later...; Red Sox player takes on MLB (9/10)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘9/11’ as in remember September 11, 2001. It’s been 20 years. We’ve told this story before, but it’s good mentally to continue sharing these stories. Working in baseball during this time — let me explain how MLB acted when Commissioner Bud Selig heard the news. (23:10) Review: Untold - Crime and Penalties. (27:55) Red Sox player Hunter Renfroe went on a radio show yesterday and spoke out against MLB. He alleged that Major League Baseball told the Red Sox to stop testing for Covid. This during an outbreak where 9 players are on the Covid list. MLB denied this. The Boston Red Sox are pissed. What happens now? (35:30) Marcel Ozuna will be suspended. It’s going to happen. He was facing felony charges for physically assaulting his wife. We all need to be better. (39:30) NPPOD. (45:40) NPDS Survivor Pool Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.1	9-11
0:51.1	9-11 is the word of the day for September 10th. Today is a Friday. We're not going to have a show on 9-11.
0:59.7	I want to take a few minutes and I appreciate that you will grant me those few minutes. Do not pause,
1:05.1	do not fast forward, please, and don't stop downloading. But I think it's important to talk about 9-11,
1:10.4	no matter how old you are, no matter where you're from, whether it's New York or the middle of the
1:15.6	country or a different country. 9-11 is a day that changed the world. You don't know what day will
1:24.0	be the day that changes the world. 9-11, I was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A lot of people have been
1:29.7	asking me about where I was. I was working in baseball. I was the executive vice president of the
1:35.6	Montreal Expos, but there was no one above me but the owner. So I was really the president. I just
1:40.4	couldn't be named that because of the Canadian partners that we had. But in any case, I flew to Milwaukee,
1:46.0	Wisconsin where there was an owner's meeting that was going to take place. When Bud Sealig was
1:52.0	commissioner, Bud Seal lived in Milwaukee. He lives in Milwaukee. He splits this time between
1:56.0	Milwaukee and Arizona. And once a year, he'd always prefer to have one of the quarterly meetings in
2:01.6	Milwaukee because then he wouldn't have to travel. And he liked his own bed. As I'm getting older,
2:07.2	I can appreciate that. And he had one of the meetings in Arizona. So half the meetings, he actually
2:12.3	got to be in his own bed. I flew in early. The meetings start on Wednesday. Owners meetings start
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