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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Athletics in Vegas update: groundbreaking coming soon?; Will MLB add more national games in next TV deal? (Episode 1255)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘groundbreaking’ as in Vegas as in the Athletics as in permits as in documents as in construction. What am I talking about? The Athletics said they are ready to break ground come June. For a stadium to open in 2028. Can it happen? What about the tariffs? (12:10) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about having a renewed interest in baseball, but none of the games are on national TV. Where can we watch that doesn’t cost extra? How can MLB grow the game this way? (20:10) What is going on with MLB TV though? Why are they looking to license it? (30:05) Review: Liza. (37:35) The NBA on TNT held a sendoff last night. Inside The NBA said goodbye to the regular season. Next season games move to Amazon and NBC. (40:40) NPPOD. (43:10) let’s talk about what happened at Pat McAfee’s live show. Just another bad moment for the Pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here you go.

0:33.6

Here you go.

0:45.6

You go. That's the nothing personal word of the day.

0:48.9

It is Friday, April 11th, 2025.

0:53.9

Groundbreaking. What the aths are planning for. For all of my good friends in the

0:59.4

Oakland, San Francisco area, for all the listeners up in Sacramento, hide your ears. Don't close

1:06.2

your ears. Don't not click and listen. Don't fast forward. This is for you, Vegas.

1:12.9

They are working hard.

1:15.4

They are doing PR statements.

1:17.9

They are having people out talking to the media, talking to the fans, getting everyone

1:22.8

jacked up for the groundbreaking of a new $1.75 billion stadium due to break ground in June of 2025

1:35.3

to open in April of 2008. And they want to make sure that you're not worried about a thing.

1:46.8

They sent out their new team president to let you know that they are on sketch,

1:53.1

to let you know that they've got the best people and they're working every day.

1:59.4

I worked every day to get a new ballpark, not for three years or four

2:04.6

years or five years. Hold on. Let me think. Ten years every day I did something for a ballpark.

2:12.5

And when construction started in about July of 2009, the plan was that I'd be down on site or doing meetings

2:21.0

or meeting with the construction manager or with your contractors or subcontractors or the

2:26.2

architects every single day. Talk about Zoom meetings, which there weren't Zoom meetings back

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