Simone Biles puts mental health first at Tokyo Olympics; MLB Trade Deadline two days away! (7/28)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘twisties’ as in the yips as in Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic team all-around in gymnastics after experiencing what is basically a mental block. Biles, and gymnasts around the world, are saying that these are scary, frightening, and can cause serious injury if you fall. Let’s address the backlash Biles received for putting her mental health first. We are SICK and TIRED of the criticism here at NPDS. (19:45) The MLB trade deadline is this Friday and it is coming fast. What are front offices doing right now? How many phones are ringing? (24:20) The Seattle Mariners made a trade and their players are pissed. How did this happen? Why did this happen? (31:40) Review: The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. (37:00) Why hasn’t Kumar Rocker been signed by the New York Mets yet? The Mets slotted him for $6M and now there seems to be an issue with the medicals. What will happen now? (44:30) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The biggest movie of the year.
0:01.6	Are you ready?
0:02.2	Down right.
0:02.8	Takes off on Paramount Plus.
0:04.6	Critics agree, Top Gun Maverick restores your faith in the magic of movies.
0:08.8	Nice.
0:09.6	On Cruise.
0:10.6	Haven't any fun yet.
0:11.6	Top Gun Maverick, ready PT-13, now streaming on Paramount Plus.
0:34.8	Twisties.
0:36.8	Nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, July 28th.
0:40.1	The year 2021 is a word that I just learned called the Twisties.
0:46.0	Having worked in baseball, I was used to the Yips.
0:49.6	The Yips is when all of a sudden a catcher can't throw it back to the pitcher or a second
0:53.8	basement can't throw it to the first basement on a ground ball.
0:57.8	Or the pitcher, remember the pitcher named Rick Ankeel.
1:02.0	He was a pitcher who got the Yips and could not throw the ball across the plate.
1:07.2	He then retired and actually came back as a hitter.
1:09.9	The Yips are something in baseball that we have a staff of psychologists on call.
1:14.8	We have one full time psychologist.
1:17.7	We also had a performance psychologist and employee assistance program person.
1:21.8	We also had people who were our go-to Yippers.
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