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Nothing Personal with David Samson

What a day to be a Knicks fan! (2/4)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'privacy' as in we will never know who didn't vote for Derek Jeter (0:06). The Knicks have fired team president Steve Mills and now where will they go (1:05)? A lot of questions being asked seeing as the NBA trade deadline is in 2 days. What is happening with Mookie Betts (6:28)!?!?! The Astros steal another name from Tampa to be their GM (11:16). Is Kyle Shanahan being unfairly criticized for losing two Super Bowls now after having big leads (21:07)? Review - Miss Americana (27:35). Major props to Katie Sowers for how she has handled the B.S. hate she's getting after the Super Bowl (31:25). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? How involved was I with government relations strategy when I was the President of the Marlins (35:06)? Is it time for the Boston Red Sox to move on from Mookie Betts? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here you go. Here you go.

0:06.0

Privacy. That's nothing personal word of the day for February 4, 2020. Privacy is exactly

0:12.5

what the writer who did not vote for Derek Jeter wanted with his Hall of Fame ballot.

0:17.9

As you recall, Derek Jeter made the Hall of Fame, except he was going to be unanimous

0:21.6

like his teammate, Mariana Rivera. And one guy or girl voted no. Didn't vote for him.

0:29.6

Didn't check his name in a box. Was it a hanging chad? Was it a mistakenly placed

0:34.7

ballot? Did he think he was signing Derek Jeter clicking his name and ended up clicking?

0:40.2

I don't know. JJ Puts his name. We'll never know because the baseball writers association

0:45.3

voted to make every ballot public. And the Hall of Fame said, no, we will not allow that.

0:51.7

We do not agree. If a writer wants privacy, we're going to give it to him. If he wants to

0:55.8

capitalize on the privacy, we're going to let him. If he wants to let it go, we're

0:59.9

going to let it go. And for the rest of time, Jeter is not unanimous. You're fired. Is

1:07.4

that how it goes when Jim Dolan fires Steve Mills? He just calls him in. When I fired

1:13.7

people, I've done it many different ways. You can do it the regular way. We've decided

1:17.8

to move in another direction. The nice way is I really am so sorry about this. Never apologize

1:23.9

when you're firing someone, but you could just say, hey, I'm really sorry, but you know,

1:27.7

we're just not performing the way I want us to perform. We're going to move on. I think

1:32.3

this was something a little more acute that would have caused the fire in Steve Mills today.

1:37.0

Even Jim Dolan, who as we know, has had a record as an owner that makes our ownership

1:45.1

group in Miami look much more successful than maybe it was on the field. We got a world

1:50.4

championship, at least. Steve Mills is the president of a team that has not been in the

1:56.4

final since 1999. This is the New York Knicks, arguably to me the most important franchise

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