The AL East is a gauntlet! Are the Rays for sale? Are the Orioles for sale? Is Cashman really "happy" with the Yankees? Is Chaim Bloom on the hot seat? (Episode 841)

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David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘tightrope’ as in the AL East as in closing in on MLB halfway point as in the Rays lead MLB as in the Orioles are on their heels as in the Yankees, Blue Jays, and Red Sox are all in striking distance of the Wild Card. (6:00) Are the Rays for sale? Are the Rays getting a new stadium? Are the Rays ever going to fill up a stadium? (11:30) What is going on with the Baltimore Orioles? Is the team for sale? A settlement just took place with the Nationals that sees Baltimore paying $100M over a settlement. (16:15) What is happening with the Yankees? Cashman is “happy” with the team. Even with that payroll? (20:40) What is Chaim Bloom’s future in Boston? Can the Red Sox keep momentum going? (24:00) NPPOD. (29:10) Review: Sweeney Todd. (32:10) Is Las Vegas ready for an NBA team? Is it happening? Is the Oak View Group proposal a real one? (36:55) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Damian Lillard and if this a player I’d want on my team. (42:10) It’s time for sub talk! Have a great Wednesday, party people! The weekend is so close! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.8	Tightrope, nothing personal word of the day.
0:48.4	It is Wednesday, June 21st, 2023, and the word is tightrope.
0:54.2	We'll talk about basketball, what's going on around the Titanic, but we're starting
1:01.8	with the tightrope that is the AL East in Major League Baseball.
1:07.6	It's always the division that is the focus of the commissioner's office.
1:13.0	It's the focus of the networks.
1:14.9	It's the focus of the owners.
1:17.3	Everybody wants to win the American Ligue, they want to be the champion.
1:21.4	They want to deal with the Yankees or they want to be the Yankees or they are the Yankees.
1:26.7	Every single network wants to show Yankees and Red Sox.
1:29.8	The tightrope is what these teams have to start walking as we enter the halfway point
1:36.4	of the season.
1:37.8	Hard to imagine that Baseball is halfway done within a week.
1:42.5	Every team will have played 81 games.
1:46.4	The All Star game happening in July is not the halfway.
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