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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Will Padres $340M gamble on Tatis Jr. pay off? (2/18)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘ holy father’ as in Holy Padre! as in I still cannot believe the San Diego Padres signed Fernando Tatis Jr. to a 14-year, $340M deal. It’s just so unbelievable that even after a night of no sleep, I still cannot understand why AJ Preller and the Padres decided to do this. (18:13) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me what I thought about Tim Tebow’s career with the New York Mets. (25:40) Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams to advance to the Australian Open final. Father Time is still undefeated. Serena is the GOAT, but Osaka has her number in Majors. (35:00) Review: Malcolm & Marie. (39:37) NPPOD. (41:35) The Toronto Blue Jays will play their first two home series in Dunedin, Floria… not Canada. How long will this happen for? #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Holy Father. Nothing personal word of the day. Thursday, February 18th, 2021. Last night,

0:22.5

we released an emergency bonus pod. Hurry up, Coca. Let's go. Fernando Tatis has signed a $340 million

0:31.6

$14 year contract. We did like a 15 minute show yesterday. Hope you downloaded it. Listen to it.

0:38.4

Subscribe to nothing personal because we're around. We're available. Phone rings,

0:45.2

tweets, calm, text, calm. We're ready to get to you with our thoughts. And we come up with them quickly.

0:51.7

We're a very stealth operation. Hear it? Nothing personal.

0:57.0

Doesn't really matter time of day. Coke is always awake after I call them. I'm always awake.

1:04.3

So I want to talk today again, Holy Father, a little bit about to tease in case you're just joining us

1:11.0

for Nando Tatis Jr. The son of Fernando Tatis Sr.

1:14.6

who played for us in Montreal in 2001 in a great trade. We traded away. Do you know, Coco,

1:21.2

we traded away Dustin Hermenson and Steve Klein to get back a guy named Britt Reams and a guy named

1:27.1

Fernando Tatis. He had a son at that time. The son would be around Montreal. We'd see him.

1:36.0

Yeah, I didn't think he'd be a $340 million player, but boy, he was pretty good at a young age.

1:41.0

In any case, Tatisides this contract and the world's on fire. People are going crazy.

1:47.9

My point last night, and we're not going to do the entire episode again because just downloading

1:53.4

get the episode from last night is that there was no reason for the Padres to sign this contract with

1:59.4

Tatis now. None. Zero. Zip. But I want to talk today with Holy Father, which Coco thought

2:10.0

what I meant was Holy F blank blank K holy F blank blank K holy, but I meant holy Padres in the

2:19.1

Padres Padres Padres father in Spanish holy Padres, but I thought it'd be funny to say holy

2:23.8

father because they knew think I was saying holy F blank blank K anyway, Holy Father's word of

2:28.8

the day. And here's why as a veteran of signing $300 million contracts, having given

2:37.1

Stanton the largest contract in the history of sports at that time, nobody had ever gotten $325

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