Steve Cohen wins first Mets presser; Tony La Russa in the danger zone

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘presser’ as in the New York Mets held a press conference yesterday to introduce Steve Cohen. He used his time to talk about how bad he wants to win, spending money, getting the best players, wanting a World Series within 3-5 years; it was everything a Mets fan would want to hear. Was it all the right things to say? Maybe. What about Sandy Alderson? What did he have to say (0:06). On Tuesday’s show we talked about Tony La Russa and his DUI arrest… then what happened after the show was recorded? The transcript was released from La Russa’s arrest and it is a horrible look for him. The Chicago White Sox are in a bad place right now, but will Jerry Reinsdorf acknowledge this (21:38)? Marcus Stroman said he would never sign with the Chicago White Sox. He said for no amount of money would make it worth it (26:19). Review - Shithouse (31:10). A word about Tommy Heinsohn. Hall of fame coach and player. Don Mattingly and Kevin Cash were the winners of the Manager of the Year awards. Let’s talk about these awards and what it meant for Don Mattingly. Who wins the big time awards tonight, Cy Young and MVP (40:10)? #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	Presser. Nothing personal word of the day is presser. That's lingo. I'm bringing it inside
0:14.4	sports and business and public relations. A presser is when you schedule a press conference
0:19.6	to make an announcement. You're supposed to make it a major announcement. And it used to be that
0:24.0	you would tease. You'd call the media and say, please show up at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday for a press
0:32.1	conference where the new owner of the meds will be made available and the new president,
0:37.2	Sandy Ollison will be made available. And then everyone shows up. They set up cameras. You've
0:41.6	got the PR people. They check their feeds. They get the microphones ready. They call it for 10.
0:47.0	Steve Cohn is up with Sandy Ollison in the offices. You decide where you're going to have this
0:52.4	presser because every presser needs a location. The location has significant sometimes. Sometimes
0:58.7	it doesn't. Sometimes it's in a studio. And you announce when it's happening and then you wait
1:03.7	a few minutes for the rest of the media to come. If it's going live, which some pressers do, big
1:08.8	pressers, a presser announcing a new owner of a New York baseball franchise, that's going to be live.
1:15.5	When the team is on a network that it used to own, that it no longer owns, but the owners,
1:21.2	former owners who sold the team own the network and they're looking for content at all times.
1:26.0	They're going to go live. That's SNY. When your league has a network that's looking for live
1:30.8	content all the time and that's called MLB Network, they're going to go live. So what you do is you
1:35.6	coordinate with the networks. They say it's called for 10. We're going to be live at top of the
1:40.4	hour at 10. And then we're going to show Steve and Sandy walking in at 10.03 and started at 10.05.
1:49.1	They'll be an introduction by the head of PR, head of communications. Who will welcome everybody
1:55.3	and say I'd like to introduce the new owner and CEO of your New York Mets. Steve Cohn.
2:05.2	And there he is. Tileus, of course, a man of the people, a 15 billionaire times over.
2:15.0	Of course, that's 15 times over billionaire 14.8. Although when the market goes down, maybe it's 14.7,
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