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Nothing Personal with David Samson

World Baseball Classic is here! Get excited! Jets need a QB: Derek Carr said no... will Aaron Rodgers?; Ja Morant Update: more trouble for the Grizzlies star (Episode 767)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’WBC’ as in World Baseball Classic as in the World Cup of Baseball as in Dominican Republic as in Team USA as in Japan! Let’s talk about what this tournament is and what it means to Major League Baseball. (10:55) What are the Jets doing at QB? Is Aaron Rodgers the guy? Is Derek Carr the guy? Is Geno Smith the guy? What are the Jets going to do!? (23:10) Review: A Man Called Otto (26:55) What is the latest on Ja Morant? It looks like the Denver Police Department are now going to review this case because of the firearm shown by Morant. Will the NBA choose to suspend him now? (38:30) NPPOD. (43:00) Mike Clevinger is in trouble, but not in trouble. MLB will not discipline him for what’s happening off the field. I'm back! Did anyone miss me? ANYONE! Let's have an incredible Tuesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

WBC, nothing personal word of the day.

0:23.9

It is Tuesday, March 7, 2023, and the world baseball classic is back for the first time

0:32.0

in six years.

0:33.9

Play starts today and guess what?

0:37.5

It's pool play.

0:38.8

It's on the Fox networks.

0:40.5

You've got Team USA stacked trying to defend its title from 2017 in a tournament that

0:48.3

was started in a boardroom so many years ago we talked about it and we were so suspect

0:55.7

of it.

0:56.7

And the reason we were is we figured who's going to be interested in that.

1:00.1

Let's just say we're doing it.

1:02.0

This is the provenance of the WBC.

1:04.9

Let's just say we're doing it tournament because then maybe we'll get back into the Olympics.

1:10.0

This is back when maybe you guys may not remember this you guys Jeff probes come on in.

1:15.4

It's not you guys you guys you none binary whatever it is you all remember when the Olympics

1:25.2

said no more baseball.

1:27.6

Our feelings were so hurt in ownership meetings because when you're in those meetings you think

1:33.0

you're the most important people in the world and you think your sports the most important

1:35.9

sport in the world and all of a sudden the Olympic committee which at the time there was

1:41.4

a guy in the committee whose name was Harvey Schiller and Harvey Schiller had worked in

1:46.4

baseball before.

1:48.4

But in any case baseball was out of the Olympics so we said let's do our own tournament and

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