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Nothing Personal with David Samson

The Stanley Cup Finals and a hockey tragedy (7/6)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘WPE’ as in Worst Plan Ever as in the Tampa mayor said she wanted the Lightning to lose Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals so they could win it at home in Tampa. Why do mayors do this? The Lightning lost Game 4 to the Montreal Canadiens. Perfect plan!? (10:52) Stop buying fireworks. Stop. Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Matiss Kivlenieks died on Sunday after a fireworks accident. 24 years old. (18:12) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about who would be out there to replace Brian Cashman. The listener remembered we said you shouldn’t fire someone without knowing their replacement. (30:30) Review: Top 5 Richard Donner movies. (35:03) NPPOD. (38:00) More news continues to come out about the Trevor Bauer issue. Manager Dave Roberts says he doesn’t expect Bauer to be back after just 7 days on Administrative Leave. Former Dodgers player Dave Stewart had some very harsh words to say about how bad the Dodgers handled this situation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

WPE, nothing personal word of the day. Today is Tuesday, July 6, 2021. WPE stands for

0:29.7

Worst Plan Ever. When teams make it to the finals of a sport, to the Super Bowl, to the NBA

0:39.0

finals, or to the Stanley Cup, for whatever strange reason, it has become custom that mayors

0:46.7

of the cities playing for the championship in whatever respective sport make some sort

0:52.0

of foolish bet. Like I bet the bucks and the sons who start tonight, maybe their mayors

0:59.1

are making a bet. And if the bucks win, then maybe the mayor of Phoenix has to drink an

1:06.8

entire case of Miller Lite. But if the sons win, then the bucks mayor has to plant a cactus

1:14.7

right below his toilet, something like that. When Miami is in the finals of something World

1:22.0

Series or NBA finals, and they win, then the opposing teams mayor has to eat like 59

1:28.6

impenatus and drink a quart of Cuban coffee. And when the Yankees win, then the mayor has

1:35.2

to eat corn beef. So that's just common. I never understood it. I think it's silly. If

1:43.6

you're going to wager, either do a dollar, which is my favorite wager, that would be great,

1:49.2

right? What are you going to bet? A dollar. But sometimes mayors when they're, it's Coco,

1:57.1

sorry, man, we're one minute in. We didn't prepare for this. I was just thinking about what

2:01.4

happened when the Marlins were in the World Series, the 03. And I was dealing with the Miami

2:06.2

mayor, the city mayor and the county mayor at the time, the county mayor was a guy named

2:11.0

Alex Penelas and the city mayor was a guy named Manides and they came to New York and they

2:18.8

wanted to be on the field. They wanted to sit in certain places and we had to keep track

2:23.4

of where they were sitting because one wanted better seats because they were the county

2:27.6

or the city. And then once the team won and they wanted access to the fields, their security

2:33.2

guards were talking to him about getting them on the field. It was a whole thing.

2:38.6

So mayors get involved because of course when teams win, it's really good for the city,

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