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Nothing Personal with David Samson

What happened inside MLB during 9/11 attacks

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'surreal' as in what happened on September 11, 2001. Let me walk you through what happened that day when I was vice president of the Montreal Expos. We'll talk about what went down that day inside baseball; from conversations with the government to the discussions that were had behind-closed-doors in MLB. --------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.   Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson  To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here you go. Here you go.

0:07.4

Serial. Serial is the word of the day today.

0:13.2

I spent time with Koka a lot of time talking about today's show.

0:18.1

Today is September 11th, 2020.

0:22.1

And I know that we've got listeners of all ages.

0:25.6

And I am 52, born in 1968.

0:31.0

For me, 9-11 is a date that there's no other way to talk about or think about anything on this day,

0:41.1

other than what happened on 9-11.

0:43.3

And I understand that for nothing personal, we're supposed to give you the trending stories,

0:48.5

what's happening, tell you what's in my mind, in my head.

0:52.6

Well, today what's on my mind, in my head is 9-11.

0:56.8

And I want to talk about all aspects of 9-11 from a baseball standpoint, from my standpoint,

1:03.0

what was going on, stories that really have not been told a lot.

1:08.1

And if you're too young to remember 9-11, there are movies you can watch, there are books you can read.

1:17.0

But it's the same as my grandparents telling me about the Second World War,

1:23.6

or about Vietnam, where I was alive, but too young to remember it.

1:29.9

If you didn't live through it and have memories of it, it's hard to be brought back into that.

1:35.5

And it's hard to have interest.

1:36.6

So the discussion was, is this a show that people want to hear?

1:42.6

And the reason I think it is, is I want you to know what goes on when you run a team,

1:50.8

when something happens that you can't possibly have ever been prepared for.

1:56.1

And what it means when you are in a position of leadership, where you have to be unemotional,

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