Should the Chicago White Sox fire Tony La Russa?

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘sleeping’ as falling asleep as in being asleep at the wheel as in Tony La Russa was charged with a DUI just one day before being named manager of the Chicago White Sox. What happened here? It’s now the 2nd time La Russa has been charged with a DUI. The White Sox said they knew about this arrest prior to hiring him as manager. Now people want him gone. What will the White Sox and Jerry Reinsdorf do (0:06)? Rob Manfred is getting some bad publicity right now for an announcement that came out yesterday. MLB is instituting a voluntary retirement plan for any MLB employee over the age of 50. Why is this a bad thing (19:32)? Review - The Only Living Boy in NY (28:00). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about Bucks’ player Sterling Brown settling with the city of Milwaukee following an investigation into police brutality (32:10). CBS announced a new diversity pledge Monday that will have a visible impact on its staple of reality shows: All future casts will contain at least 50 percent Black, indigenous and people of color. How and why are these decisions made (41:00)? #waittosee -------------------------- '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/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go. There you go.
0:07.6	Sleeping. Nothing personal. Word of the day. November 10th, 2020.
0:14.1	Sleeping as in sleeping at the wheel. It's an expression.
0:18.8	Should never fall asleep at the wheel, especially if you've been drinking.
0:23.4	Should never get behind the wheel. If you've been drinking,
0:25.9	biggest story of the night happened because word came out that Tony LaRusa,
0:31.0	the 76 year old brand new manager of the Chicago White Sox,
0:34.8	returning home, going full circle,
0:38.3	working for Jerry Rhyne's door with a great young team was charged with driving
0:43.7	under the influence. Let me give you the backstory. What's happened since?
0:49.7	What's going to happen going forward? What should have happened?
0:53.4	And what may still happen?
0:57.2	So back in the day, you've heard some great stories on nothing personal about the
1:02.1	Montreal Expos and their spring training in Jupiter, Florida.
1:07.0	Then when I joined the expose, we had spring training in Jupiter, Florida.
1:11.1	Then we switched out the expose for the Marlins and the Marlins spring trained in
1:15.0	Vieira. Vieira was an outpost north like two hours north of Jupiter.
1:20.1	And we wanted to switch spring training facilities. And so we did.
1:24.6	So the Marlins ended up spring training in Jupiter, starting in 2003.
1:29.8	And the expose and nationals who then became the nationals were moved to Vieira.
1:33.8	And they eventually moved to Palm Beach when Palm Beach publicly financed a
1:38.1	spring training stadium for the Astros and Nationals. Why does this matter?
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