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Nothing Personal with David Samson

What went wrong with Messi and Barcelona? Is it La Liga's fault?; Deshaun Watson trade!? No chance... (8/6)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘adios’ as in goodbye as in Messi is out of Barcelona as in hasta la vista, baby as in La Liga Fair Play will not allow Barcelona to re-sign Lionel Messi to a new contract. What in the world is happening here!? How problematic is this Barcelona team? Whose fault is it that one of the best players in the history of the sport is out at Barcelona? (15:20) Deshaun Watson could be traded to the Eagles? Interesting. Why would a team trade for him right now? Why would a franchise risk trading first round picks and taking on BIG salary for a player who might be suspended? (19:30) Trevor Bauer’s administrative leave was extended another 7 days. Why not longer? The union has to protect a player even if it doesn’t want to. (24:58) Review: American Animals. (31:35) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if I could build a sportsbook at a stadium would I do it…. OF COURSE! (36:50) NPPOD. (43:00) Former President Trump released a statement about the USWNT. The women brought home a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Something we should be proud of. What are we doing here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.4

Adios is the word of the day for August 6th. It's a Friday. It's been a week. Got through it.

1:03.1

Thanks to you all. Thank you. Just many thank yous. I started very early this morning responding to

1:09.2

many of your, many of your notes of appreciation and condolence, so thank you for those. I will

1:15.1

continue to work on that during the weekend. Adios, I didn't even mean that as a goodbye like that.

1:21.1

I meant that as a goodbye in Spanish like Ostalavista, baby. Hey, you know what? Coca, let's do that again. Here we go.

1:31.6

90, 80, 69. Ostalavista, baby. Nothing personal. What are the day for Friday? August 6th, 2021 is

1:42.9

Astalavista, which is what Barcelona and Lionel Messi said to the rest of the world. Bye-bye,

1:52.2

Sianara, Adios. Wait a minute. I thought as I was getting ready to prepare a show and talking to

2:00.0

Coco about today, very, very late into the night, totally distracting Coco from far greater pursuits.

2:08.5

I said, Messi, I thought that he had a deal already with Barcelona. They just hadn't formalized it,

2:15.9

so I wasn't willing to lose the way to see which was back from September of 2020 when I said he's

2:24.1

going to be gone from Barcelona after this year. That was the way to see. And once it was announced

2:30.2

that he was going back to Barcelona, Coco said that's going to be a loss for you. I said,

2:33.9

hold on, let's wait for it to be confirmed. So we agreed, we waited. And now we see all of a sudden

2:41.7

Messi is not going back to Barcelona. So which is it? Is he back? Do they have an agreement?

2:46.8

Does he not back? It's a complete cluster duck. And I want to tell you some funny stuff because

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