Tampa Bay Rays in Montreal was NEVER going to happen! But! Why was it announced now? (Episode 523)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘rejected’ as in shut down as in turned down as in the Tampa Bay Rays will not be the half-Tampa, half-Montreal Ex-Rays. WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN! Rays owner Stu Sternberg knew this would never happen, but he kept pushing and pushing nonsense to fans. Sternberg was spewing BS about this sister-city plan and we told you what it was. HORSE HOCKEY! (20:35) Are the Athletics going to move from Oakland? Probably not! (21:45) RIP Meat Loaf. (25:55) Review: After Life Season 3. (29:10) MLB Lockout Update! (35:30) NPPOD. (40:40) Former UCONN head coach Kevin Ollie is getting his money. This case went to court and Ollie won big. Over $11M. Let’s discuss how this went down and why the school messed up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.6	Rejected. Nothing personal. Word of the day for Friday, January 21st,
0:54.8	2022 rejected.
0:59.6	Majorly, baseball rejected Stuart Sternberg, the owner of the Tampa Bay
1:04.2	Rays, from that cock-a-mamey split city plan that was never even a possibility.
1:11.1	And it became the story of the day in baseball, but everyone got it wrong.
1:17.7	Stuart Sternberg has spent two and a half years trying to convince you
1:21.1	that a split city plan, playing the beginning of the season in Tampa, playing the end of the season in Montreal,
1:28.8	two stadiums, two cities, was brilliant. The epiphany of a lifetime.
1:38.2	It's like discovering electricity.
1:41.3	Equals MC squared. It was a pshh mind-blowing.
1:47.1	We are going to do the impossible and take two markets that suck,
1:53.2	and we're going to combine them to make one great team.
1:59.9	I have spent endless hours on the radio doing shows on CBS Sports HQ on nothing personal.
2:06.3	From the beginning, trying to tell all of you that there was no chance this was going to happen.
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