Who does LeBron James want fired? Mets fire hitting coaches because Steve Cohen has new-owner-itis (5/4)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘play in’ as in play-in games as in the NBA decided last season it would have a small play-in tournament to figure out the final spots in the playoffs. Now this season it’s back and LeBron James is not happy. Who voted on these games? Did they just come out of nowhere? LeBron knows better. (8:48) The New York Mets have fired their hitting coaches 23 games into the season. Steve Cohen is feeling the new-owner-itis right now. (22:05) Days before the minor-league camp was set to open the Philadelphia Phillies did something that is rather unusual. The team removed its director of pitching development and promoted a coach with only one year of experience. Why would the team do this? (32:21) Review: 7 Yards. (38:10) NPPOD. (41:13) The Los Angeles Dodgers went from best team ever to struggling to now plagued by injuries. Dustin May needs Tommy John surgery. What about the Chicago White Sox? Luis Robert is out for a long time with a hip injury. The Sox were supposed to be the best team in the AL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	playin
0:21.0	nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday. May the fourth be with you. I don't really
0:27.5	get into that. Coca May 4th Star Wars. It's not my kind of movie. I should have
0:32.4	watched the Star Wars film yesterday, but I didn't. I just don't like them.
0:35.4	People do all sorts of crazy stuff on May 4th. The sports world, the business
0:40.6	world. There's been a lot of things going on. I wonder, Coke if on May 4th, people
0:45.9	just feel as though they can be otherworldly in their opinions and in their
0:50.7	thoughts and in their statements. I don't know.
0:55.0	Playin. That's really the word of the day. The Braun James is pissed and I'm
1:00.3	laughing. The Braun James is concerned about the play and saying someone should
1:04.9	be fired for the NBA playin. You remember what we're talking about? The NBA
1:09.6	season is only 72 games this year. Normally it's 82. So they cut 10 games off
1:14.2	the season. Last year when NBA stopped because Rudy Gaubert test
1:19.1	deposit for COVID-19. When they came back to the bubble in Orlando, it was a 60
1:23.9	game total season or they cut however many games they cut. And they said if
1:28.6	we're coming back right now to play, we have to allow several teams to have a
1:32.9	chance to make the playoffs. So they did this concept of a play in tournament.
1:35.9	Fine. Instead of eight teams in each conference, they have 10 teams in each
1:40.6	conference, duking it out for eight playoff spots. And the way you do it is if
1:45.0	you finish in seventh place, seven plays eight. If you finish in ninth place,
1:49.3	nine plays 10. And the loser of seven versus eight plays the winner of nine
1:54.8	verse 10, which means if you're nine or 10, you have to win two straight games to
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