The Room: Behind Closed Doors of the Messiest Ritual in Sports

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Luka Dončić is just the latest athlete to be deemed too expensive by their employer. But Major League Baseball has a special solution to this problem that is at once top-secret, excruciating and embarrassing. Because when a player and his team disagree on the new salary he deserves, baseball puts them before a tribunal of judges... and lets them argue over how much that player sucks... in front of that player. All-Star second baseman Dan Uggla and journeyman outfielder Cody Ross re-confront David Samson, the former Florida Marlins president who stood between them and their millions. And they have a lesson for every athlete who dares to enter The Room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.8	Listen, don't threaten me with that. Right after this ad.
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1:02.9	You don't like the wood shades? You don't like the wood shades? That's the best you got for $60 million.
1:10.9	You got woodshades?
1:12.7	Hey, we're budgeting over here.
1:14.0	Budgeting.
1:14.5	Budgeting.
1:15.6	Can you get in front of your World Series jersey?
1:19.0	That's right, dog.
1:20.1	That's a safety deposit box.
1:22.7	Safety deposit box.
1:24.9	He went for the money.
1:26.4	Cody, you went for love and fame and World Series and LCSMVPs.
1:31.7	You're welcome, by the way.
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