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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Rockies investigation finds no racial slur said; Barstool Sports and MLB looking to strike groundbreaking deal (8/10)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘dinger’ as in a home run as in the name of the Colorado Rockies mascot. We spoke yesterday about the investigation the Rockies conducted to get to the bottom of an alleged racial incident against Marlins player Lewis Brinson. The team confirmed it was dinger that was used. Let’s discuss this whole situation. (14:35) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me the role an agent has when they represent two competing free agents. Interesting. (24:45) Review: She’s In Portland. (28:40) Carmelo Anthony opened up about joining LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. He said not having a ring keeps him up at night. (34:40) NPPOD. (37:40) Barstool Sports is reportedly working with MLB on a deal. Some people are mad. Some people are happy. Why would baseball be doing this?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.1

In 2021, it's Dinger, which is a name used for a home run. How many Dinger's does he have?

1:02.4

I don't know if that's used by young people anymore, Coco. That may be a Boomer word.

1:05.9

Dinger is the name that was chosen for the Colorado Rockies mascot. We spoke yesterday in detail

1:14.0

about what happened at the Rockies Marlins game on Sunday, where Lewis Brinson, the sole African

1:20.8

American, played in that game as far as I remember, was at the plate and microphones around the

1:27.7

stadium in Colorado picked up what people thought was the N word. Investigation started. I explained

1:35.1

to you exactly what the Rockies would do, exactly what Major League Baseball is going to do.

1:40.0

There were people quick to judge. It was Bartman-like, almost, in people attacking the fan who was in

1:48.3

some sort of video looking like he was yelling, though no one could match up the lips in the

1:53.2

mouth. It was a whole thing. Immediately someone came out and said, no, he was yelling for Dinger.

2:01.3

Two sections over the mascot to come take a photo. Can't imagine he's the first person to

2:07.2

yell Dinger in Rockies Ballpark. Of course, field, I would think not. I think Dinger's been the name

2:13.6

for the duration, at least since the mascot started. Don't even know the year, but it's been a while.

2:18.2

But let's pretend that no one ever called Dinger's name and let's pretend that if they did,

2:24.6

they enunciated it perfectly. Let's pretend that no one picked it up on a microphone. After the

2:31.5

game on Sunday, no players said they heard anything, which I found to be interesting, if not

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