Tony La Russa story isn't going away anytime soon; Mets ace Jacob deGrom torches team in rehab start (5/21)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘legs’ as in the story has legs as in this Tony La Russa story is not going away. Everyday something comes out that makes this situation look dire. Twins pitcher Tyler Duffey was suspended 3 games for throwing at Yermin Mercedes. Former Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia went nuclear on La Russa. What is Rob Manfred going to do? (11:10) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about handling the 85% threshold for vaccine protocol changes if I were president of the Cubs. Team president Jed Hoyer was not happy, let’s explain why. (26:48) Review: White Boy. (33:02) What goes into a rehab start? Jacob deGrom pitched last night against a low-A team in Port St. Lucie and torched them. Does this mean he’s ready to return? Let me explain. (41:02) NPPOD - NBA play-in games have been bad. Blowouts everywhere. Nate McMillan got fined $25K for his comments on the Knicks and the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's go.
0:12.4	Legs.
0:21.3	Nothing personal.
0:22.3	We're the day.
0:23.3	Today is Friday.
0:24.3	Just another manic Friday.
0:27.4	We're Monday because that's my fun day.
0:31.8	Legs, Word of the day, May 21st.
0:35.0	Legs is an expression that was taught to me during media training way back in 1999.
0:41.3	A story has legs and you want to cut off the legs like Lieutenant Dan.
0:50.6	You don't want a story to have legs, especially a bad PR story.
0:54.7	You really don't want good stories to have legs either because you want them to naturally
0:58.0	grow.
0:59.0	You can't create a viral moment.
1:02.0	Try to do that so many times with the Marlins.
1:05.0	You stage something and say, hey, why can't this go viral and then you fire your social
1:09.0	media people because it doesn't go viral.
1:11.4	Then they tell you we can't make something go viral.
1:13.4	We just have to be creative.
1:15.4	Let us be creative.
1:16.4	I know.
1:17.4	Make something go viral.
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