Summer Mailbag: How Do MLB Road Trips Get Planned?; What’s the Experience of a Superstar Getting Sent to Minors

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Welcome to the Summer Mailbag Series! Let’s start with a question on road trips! Not personal ones, those are the best. Someone asked about baseball road trips and how they are planned and executed! (23:30) What is it like for MLB superstars in the minor leagues for rehab starts or to “fix” something? (30:40) How do teams decide to release or trade a player if you’re responsible for part or full salary of a player? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	road trip. Nothing personal word of the day. Road trip. Welcome to a mailbag episode, but road trips
0:23.6	around my mind. I may be on one. Yeah, but I want to talk about them too. Thank you for all of what
0:31.8	you do for nothing personal. Absolutely appreciate your loyalty all of your time. It staggers me. It
0:39.6	humbles me. The number of hours you give to me and to coca. In return, we like to answer as many
0:47.1	questions as we can. Get it David P. Samson on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, wherever else you can find us,
0:56.8	we're there. We try to respond. Can't always, but yes, we do try. Believe me to the detriment of
1:05.8	coca sleep. Let's get into it. Good question today about a road trip. There's nothing like a good
1:12.3	road trip in baseball. Before I even get to the question, do you want to talk just about road trips?
1:17.5	Well, your question, could you tell us how the clubhouse staff gets everything together for a road trip?
1:23.5	What it takes to pack everything up in the middle of a road trip to go on to the next city.
1:28.8	Ryan, I love your heads at. It's the most interesting thing that no one thinks about.
1:36.9	I for one go to a restaurant. I'm not all that interested in knowing what goes on in the kitchen.
1:47.0	I just want to know that when the food comes out, there weren't roaches on the lines.
1:53.2	There weren't deadflies in the soup. There weren't razor blades in the quiche. Other than that,
2:01.5	have at it. When I go to a movie, I want to watch the movie. I want to believe the movie's real.
2:11.0	I want to believe the movie's shot sequentially. I want to believe the characters are real and when
2:15.5	the movie's over, I say I'll see you later. I want to see you again. I feel that.
2:22.8	Hate movies that end with the end. It's not the end. It's the end of me seeing what they're doing
2:28.4	that particular day. It's sure his heck isn't the end.
2:33.9	Baseball road trips belong in that category. So many things in baseball belong in that category.
2:40.1	The things that I've seen that it's I'm happy to talk about. Nothing personal.
2:45.6	And I do talk about them. Nothing personal. Is it too much? That's a question I would have.
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