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Nothing Personal with David Samson

What took MLB so long to say something? (6/3)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'hoard' as in Cubs owner Tom Ricketts says teams don't keep cash lying around. They spend and spend or lose and lose loads of cash. Let's dissect this (0:06). We take a look at more statements that are being released by teams on racial injustices. Tampa Bay Rays showed leadership, MLB did not (11:10). MLBeard Challenge Day 80: NAACP (19:03). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me what I think of SEC schools allowing football players to return for voluntary practice starting June 8th, though several of those schools not having on-campus classes over the summer (23:04). THE NBA IS BACK! Well, a vote still has to take place on Thursday, but it's expected to be approved. Let's take a look at what has been proposed by the league (28:44). Review - Mrs. America (35:10). #waittosee ---------------------------   '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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I love saying that word. That's nothing personal word of the day.

0:11.4

Horde. Horde means a lot of things. People who are hoarders, we watch TV shows about people

0:16.6

who don't throw anything away and then they look through and they're hoarding items or

0:21.9

goods or sometimes like there's this TV show called Horde where you can't even walk

0:26.3

through someone's house. They've so much stuff. Some people say it's for sentimental reasons.

0:30.7

Some people say it's some sort of disease. Whatever it is, hoarding is also a verb. It means

0:35.5

keeping an excess of what you need. Well, the owner of the Chicago Cubs gave an interview.

0:44.7

His name is Tom Ricketts. The Ricketts family owns the Cubs. He's the control person, Tom

0:50.0

Ricketts, one of the brothers. He's the spokesman. He's the lead bro of the Cubs. He's at issues

0:58.6

with his SIS and one of his other bros and his pop. They've had some problems. Political

1:04.6

issues in family fighting. He gave an interview why I don't know and said I just want to be

1:13.9

very clear to everybody that baseball teams lose money and it's not as though we hoard loads

1:21.0

of cash. The losses that we will have because of COVID and coronavirus and here's where it got good.

1:31.6

The losses will be biblical. Biblical. A biblical size loss. How many millions in a Bible?

1:45.9

I've been thinking about it. I stayed up all night. I really couldn't sleep because that's normal.

1:51.1

I started thinking under what scenario would I ever have used in my 18 years when I was speaking

1:57.5

to the public and giving interviews? When would I ever invoke in biblical proportions?

2:05.6

The hurricane has devastated us. It's been biblical in nature. I didn't say that but I could have.

2:13.1

That home run was so important. It was biblical. Now I never did that.

2:21.1

We are going to build a ballpark on time and on budget. It's going to be biblical.

2:30.9

No, I can't say I did that. I did speak in a lot of churches and synagogues trying to get votes,

2:36.3

trying to get support of the people. I didn't never take the microphone and say our losses are

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