Stop us if you've heard this before... MLB and MLBPA are fighting again! Jack Eichel not happy with Sabres (5/14)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘faith’ as in good faith as in MLBPA says MLB was not acting in good faith last year and has filed a $500M grievance. What does this all mean? Who will win this battle? Why are they fighting in public again? (16:00) Let’s discuss some injuries in sports. Do teams have the best interest of the player when medical options are given? Jack Eichel and the Buffalo Sabres are on the verge of a massive breakup 3 seasons into a monster contract. Woof. (27:56) Review: Wander. (31:53) The NBA has create the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice award. What is this and why does it matter? I’ll tell you. (38:00) NPPOD. (40:00) Alex Rodriguez is buying the Minnesota Timberwolves. Does that mean he is now an NBA owner? Sure. Does it mean he will be at owners meetings? No chance. (44:13) Deshaun Watson update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I
0:20.0	Faith nothing personal word of the day. It's Friday just another manic Friday May 14th
0:26.7	2021 the word of the day is faith you gotta have faith
0:32.8	Because I wish it would be nice
0:35.8	Who's got faith who needs faith? You know faith is a legal word
0:39.6	You have to do things in good faith
0:42.8	It's not a lot of different contracts. You have to act in good faith. You have to act reasonably
0:49.0	with plenty of faith
0:51.0	Do you remember last year when MLB and the union were fighting they were fighting about the number of games to be played after the
0:58.3	COVID break and the commissioner said how about 60 and the league said how about a hundo
1:04.6	That's what the players said and
1:07.0	Rodmanford said I'm gonna act in good faith and I'm gonna decide the number of games
1:11.1	But I really wish we could agree on a number of games
1:12.9	But they couldn't agree on a number of games and so the commissioner then said all right. I'm gonna implement a
1:19.1	60 game schedule
1:20.9	And then way back then it was July
1:25.2	16th
1:27.2	2020 right here on nothing personal
1:30.1	We had a wait to see
1:32.1	And the way to see is when I say something's gonna happen sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't but we're gonna revisit it
1:37.5	The way to see on July 16th
1:40.0	2020 is that the MLB players association is going to file a grievance
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