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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Should we honor the careers of MLB steroid users?; Why Yankees moved Torres to 2nd base now (9/15)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘technicality’ as Ryan Braun and Manny Ramirez careers are up for debate. Braun announced his retirement from baseball. Steroid user. (14:20) Manny Ramirez is back in the news talking about the Hall of Fame. Steroid user. What is their legacy? What should the legacy be for people who cheated the game? (24:05) Review: No Man of God. (27:00) The New Orleans Saints have a slight outbreak. The coaches are positive, a player, but they made it known everyone was vaccinated. The Buffalo Bills are making fans prove vaccination. The NBA is making things very strict for non-vaccinated players. Testing regularly; negative on practice days; negative on travel days; two negative tests on Game Day. Woof. (30:40) Gavin Newsom recall vote in California. (33:10) NPPOD. (38:50) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me why the New York Yankees would move Gleyber Torres to 2nd base this late in the season. Torres committed 18 errors at shortstop. How many times does this work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Technicality. Nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 is technicality.

0:58.9

We're going to talk about Ryan Braun and Mani Ramirez here to start this show,

1:02.4

because both of them are back in the news. Two great right-handed hitters,

1:08.0

two players who have been implicated in the steroid scandal of MLB in the 2000s.

1:15.2

Technicality is a word that has legal ramifications. It's a word that you may use when you get away

1:22.8

with doing something based on a technicality. I struggle with that in law school, actually.

1:28.4

The concept of technicalities, because as a consequentialist, it should not matter if something

1:36.7

procedurally did not go right. If you are guilty of something, you ought to be punished for

1:43.1

having done it and not quote unquote, get off on a technicality. I understand in a criminal

1:48.9

proceeding, there is a very important constitutional right to do process, part of do process, part of the

1:56.6

process of a criminal case is structure. If you violate the structure in any way,

2:05.3

then guilty people can end up back on the streets. In baseball, when they started testing for

2:12.1

steroids, and we were aware as executives, the players were taking steroids, and we were

2:16.3

completely complicit in that. We're okay with it because players were hitting home runs,

2:21.5

there was offense happening, crowds were coming back, TV deals were being signed,

2:25.0

players, we didn't feed it to players, we just would look the other way. We didn't

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