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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Will there be an MLB season now? (5/26)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'disappointment' as in the MLBPA is very mad at the latest economic proposal given to them by MLB. Let's break down the information that was leaked from the proposal and try to understand what went wrong. This battle to save MLB's season is going to get ugly before it gets right (0:06). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me to please explain the NHL playoff/return to play format that was announced on Tuesday (31:10). Review - Killing of a Sacred Deer (38:45). MLBeard Challenge Day 73: Hawaii Food Bank (41:45). Blake Snell has changed agents and he's decided to go with none other than Scott Boras... will this be the last client Boras takes before the season starts? #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

There you go.

0:07.0

Disappointment.

0:10.0

That word has all sorts of meaning and it's the nothing personal word of the day.

0:15.0

Disappointment.

0:16.0

That's the word that the Major League Baseball Players Association used yesterday to respond

0:21.6

to a proposal pushed forward by the owners in Major League Baseball to set an economic

0:27.9

parameter by which we could have Baseball in 2020.

0:32.9

Disappointment is also a word that players used on Twitter, sources used, saying they

0:39.5

were disappointed in the proposal.

0:43.3

They're very far apart.

0:47.9

Pundits, everybody was talking with the exception of the owners.

0:54.0

The only voice that came from the owners was a statement, an actual statement from MLB

0:59.0

that said, we made a proposal to the union that is completely consistent with the economic

1:05.2

realities facing our sport.

1:07.6

We look forward to a responsive proposal from the MLB PA.

1:14.7

They sent the proposal yesterday.

1:16.6

Let me tell you exactly how it worked and what's next.

1:19.9

Let's talk about the proposal.

1:21.4

A lot to break down here on nothing personal because we are need deep in business, need

1:26.7

deep for starters.

1:29.6

Owners get together on a conference call.

1:33.8

Commissioner, it's a Zoom call, audio video, Commissioner presents, PowerPoint proposal.

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