Tampa Bay Rays are staying in St. Pete! Goodbye relocation, hello expansion!?; NFL files grievance against NFLPA over running backs! Mahomes gets his BAG! (Episode 892)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Link to donate to Parkinson's Research/4x4x48 Challenge: https://give.michaeljfox.org/fundraiser/4638040 Today’s word of the day is ‘never a doubt’ as in the Tampa Bay Rays are not going to Montreal. They are not going to Vegas. They are not going to Orlando. They are staying in St. Pete. 30,000 seat stadium. Fixed domed. (12:45) We have a fight between the NFL and the union right now. The league is alleging that the NFLPA told running backs to fake injuries in contract negotiations. What!? (26:35) Review: Winning Time S2. (31:15) Patrick Mahomes is back to being the highest paid player in the league. The Chiefs re-worked his deal to give him $210M guaranteed over the next 4 years. Why did they do it? (41:50) NPPOD. What is wrong with the Padres? Why did this season fail so spectacularly? The team fell apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Never a doubt.
0:17.6	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.2	It is Tuesday, September 19th, 2023.
0:23.6	There was never a doubt that the Tampa Bay rays were going to get a new stadium in Tampa.
0:28.8	They were not going to go to Montreal for half the year.
0:31.8	They weren't going to relocate to be the third city, the third team in the Northeast,
0:37.7	New York, New Jersey, no matter what stew wanted.
0:41.3	That ball club was staying put, majorly baseball needed Tampa to stay where it was because
0:47.5	they had to keep Nashville open for expansion.
0:51.3	They needed Oakland to stay put, either they will or they won't, but the Oakland situation
0:56.4	is going to be taken care of, then Oakland could be available for expansion or Vegas.
1:01.8	But either way, majorly baseball needs and wants to get to 32 teams.
1:07.5	And today at 10 30 AM, local time, people on the west side of Florida are finally going
1:15.8	to get their prayers answered with a brand new 30,000 1.2 billion dollar fixed dome park
1:26.1	in downtown, in downtown St. Pete, who I got a lot of questions about this one.
1:37.4	I want to start on the positive side because I'm feeling good this week.
1:41.9	I'm very happy three days away from the 4448 challenge.
1:47.9	I'm very rested, slept from 1 to 3 25 AM last night, woke up, surprised chicken for
1:57.5	my one final run, now I'm taking a couple days off before the challenge.
2:02.5	So but I'm in a good mood, not tired.
2:04.9	So I want to start with the positive, congratulations to Stewart Sternberg.
2:10.2	It's taken a long time as I told you it would during all those owners meetings we went
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