What happened to the San Diego Padres? Yankees have tough questions to answers! The Rays have a BIG stadium problem! (Episode 1467 Hour 2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

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🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What has happened to the Padres? They have been terrible. (13:00) The Yankees have a bigger problem than what they thought. Aaron Judge is out for months, not weeks, and not days. And what about catcher? Is Ben Rice an option? They are hoping not. (25:20) What is the latest with the Rays new stadium? Wasn’t it a done deal? Now, it does not look like it. (44:10) Let’s talk expansion and why soccer could impact it in baseball! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Welcome back to nothing personal. Today is Monday. I love when we can talk about a subject
0:45.1	and then change our minds or at least give you the opportunity to look at both sides.
0:50.5	I want to start with the San Diego Padres who stink.
0:55.5	And we're not really here to talk about that.
0:57.5	Plenty of shows you can go hear about the Padres are four and 13 in their last 17 games.
1:03.7	They lost two or three to the lowly Mets.
1:06.2	Sorry, Koka.
1:07.3	They are not even in second place.
1:09.5	The Dodgers are running away with the NO West.
1:12.0	We could go through all of that if we wanted.
1:16.1	But I love the insanity that is surrounding the sale of the Padres.
1:24.0	You remember that there's an agreement to sell them for $3.9 billion. You remember that I told
1:31.3	you that when people are buying teams, they're not really focused on, oh, how long is that
1:36.0	guy's contract? How long's that guy's contract? I gave a lot of thought to the Padres over
1:42.7	the weekend when I was listening to Manny Machado
1:45.8	talk and we'll hear from him in a minute. When I was watching Bogarts, I was watching Tatis.
1:51.0	I'm watching the dumpster fire of a team who has a payroll that is not in any way correlated to
2:00.1	what a responsible payroll would be in a market like San
2:03.5	Diego and all the people on the intergoogle who say you're out of your mind the
2:08.1	Padres are a large market team no they're not but what is amazing is that I'm allowed to evolve.
2:21.6	And it's true in all of my experience.
2:26.7	Owners and prospective owners don't spend a lot of time talking about the contracts
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