Summer Mailbag: Making the Home Run Derby; Should a Small Revenue Team Offer Shohei Ohtani a 3-Year, $75M per Deal?

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Welcome to the Summer Mailbag Series! Let’s start things off with the Home Run Derby! Do front offices like when their players participate? Who decides who is in it? Who has the final say? (16:20) Someone asked me if a small market team that is a player away offering Shohei Ohtani and short term deal but with huge money attached. Hmm. (28:30) When do you know if it’s time to buy or sell? How soon before the deadline? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go.
0:07.0	Here you go.
0:16.4	Mailbag, nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.2	It's a mailbag for you.
0:21.2	Thank you for downloading, subscribing, tuning in, maybe even watching it on the nothing
0:25.4	personal with David Samson YouTube channel.
0:28.6	The way we're doing mailbags is get to us on Twitter, get to us on Instagram, David
0:32.6	P. Samson.
0:33.6	However you can find us, whether it's with threads or Twitter or whatever other place
0:38.9	that Coca tells me to be, ask a question and we get to talk about stuff with you and
0:43.9	answer your actual questions without playing the song you want to talk to Samson music.
0:49.0	We should probably play that because every mailbag question we get is a song you want
0:52.8	to talk to Samson.
0:53.8	Hi, David.
0:56.1	I'm wondering what front offices think about players from their team competing in the home
1:15.3	run derby.
1:25.3	Thank you.
1:27.6	The home run derby part of all star week has become what the NBA had for a while, which
1:34.7	was the three point contest and slam dunk contest.
1:37.9	That used to be as big a story as the actual NBA all star game back when people would
1:43.0	actually compete in the NBA slam dunk contest and it was the best of the best.
1:48.2	The home run derby was developed as a way to get an extra night of content for the broadcaster
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