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Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘together’ as in it was the first time since March 16, 2020 that Coca and I were in the same room. Let’s talk quickly about my trip to Iceland then we’ll get to the goods. (3:00) We start things off with Steve Cohen and the New York Mets. The team can’t hit. The team can’t pitch. The team can’t win. Steve Cohen’s Twitter account has been critical. His locker room rah-rah speech didn’t work. Now what? (14:10) The New York Yankees are on fire. The team is 16-3 since a black cat ran onto the field in their loss to the Baltimore Orioles. How did this happen? Luke Voit publicly came out and said he needs to play more than Anthony Rizzo, he deserves to play more than Anthony Rizzo… was this a mistake? (22:20) Review: Coda. (27:15) Fanatics has taken over the trading card business. Deals have been struck with NBA, NFL, and MLB. The fall of Topps and Panini was swift and painful for these companies. Why would leagues do this? (37:30) NPPOD. (40:05) Time to update our Trevor Bauer talking points. He released a statement. It’s the first time he has spoken since this investigation started. The restraining order filed against him was denied. Does this mean he’s in the clear? (46:45) Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th home run of his career on Sunday. He became the 28th player to ever do that. Let’s end today by giving Miggy his flowers. Keep going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.1	Together, nothing personal word of the day today is Monday, August 23rd. We're back. I missed you guys.
0:58.5	Thank you for listening to the mailbag episodes and to the sit down with Billy Corbin,
1:03.0	that great movie director who loves Miami so much. We're back today together as the word of the day
1:09.0	because for the first time since March 16th of 2020, Coca and I were in the same breathing,
1:18.4	the same air in the same place. Came up to see me this weekend. Had some fun, talked about nothing
1:25.7	personal, talked about the trip. Just got back from Iceland, which is if you've never had a chance
1:30.8	to go and you ever have a chance to go and you are adventurous, you can climb glaciers, you can
1:36.8	drive around the entire country trying to figure it all out. It's fascinating. Different climates,
1:43.3	volcanic ash, you know, it looks like Mars and the moon. I was speaking to Terry Verks about Iceland
1:50.1	and they use basically Iceland to practice lunar stuff and it looks like Martian stuff,
1:57.3	Game of Thrones films there, went into a cave or Game of Thrones does stuff where there's hot water,
2:03.2	who knows, never watched it. It's fun to be together with Coca because people react the same way.
2:08.8	Yes, he's real. And in 71 episodes, that will be proven because we're episode 429, not counting,
2:17.4	sit downs and everything else. But I missed it. All through the course of Iceland, I'm looking for
2:22.4	stories. I'm thinking about things to talk about. I'm wondering when I'm going to make it back.
2:31.2	And we missed so much. We're going to be a little baseball focus today.
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