Shohei Ohtani suffers 2nd career UCL tear! How much will it cost him in free agency!?; Oakland Athletics owner finally speaks... SOFTBALL ALERT! (Episode 874)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Visit davidsamsonpodcast.com for merch or if you wannna talk to Samson Today’s word of the day is ‘crestfallen’ as in despondent as in sad as depressing as in Shohei Ohtani has hurt his elbow again. Another UCL tear. Will he need Tommy John surgery again? How many millions will he lose out on now? Will he ever be the same? (17:20) John Fisher has finally spoken. He’s the owner of the Oakland Athletics. And he only sat down with a paper in Nevada. None in Oakland. Wonder why. (37:00) Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline. (45:00) Baker Mayfield has some off the field distractions. $12M worth of them. (46:00) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go, here you go.
0:16.0	Crestfallen, nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.9	It's Thursday, August 24, 2023, and we should all feel crestfallen for what happened overnight
0:26.7	to Shohei Otani.
0:29.1	I'd like to do this show entirely in a monotone with no emotion whatsoever, trying to reflect
0:36.8	the absolute disappointment, not just in the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, but in Major
0:42.5	League Baseball, and in Shohei Otani and his family and friends, to say nothing of the
0:48.1	rest of his teammates.
0:51.2	But that's not how we do nothing personal.
0:54.4	We do it with energy and we do it with verve and intonation, Shohei Otani, despondent.
1:02.9	Here's what happened.
1:04.7	Double header against the reds, hadn't pitched, missed a turn, tired.
1:09.0	He's getting cramps, he had this issue, a nail issue, still pitching like an ace, hitting
1:17.4	like an MVP, takes the mound, velocity a little down.
1:22.2	Your pitcher's velocity is down.
1:25.0	You look at your GM and he looks at you and you say, all right, let's give him a couple
1:29.6	more.
1:30.6	Let's see.
1:31.6	Maybe he's just saving it.
1:32.6	This is what Otani does.
1:34.1	He knows when to turn it on.
1:35.6	It's like watching a great basketball player only go half speed.
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