MLB and ESPN headed towards a TV divorce: what could this mean to the future of baseball?; Scott Boras calls out MLB! (Episode 1221)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’prudent’ as in ESPN as in MLB as in Rob Manfred as in TV as in broadcast rights as in $550 million. Here we go. It looks like ESPN and MLB are headed for a divorce and we’ve got issues. Where will MLB games be? Will they get more money from somewhere else? Is this the end of baseball on cable? IS this going to impact player salaries? (17:20) Our dear friend Scott Boras is back. He is on a mission to make MLB ownership mad. He called teams out for poor spending. He called the league out for TV rights deals. (32:20) Review: SAG Awards. (35:40) Mets owner Steve Cohen gave a warning about his spending. Said it isn’t going to happen for long. He can do it, but he’s losing money. Most owners are! (43:31) The NHL had a hit with the 4 Nations Cup. Canada got the win. The NHL got a win. But, what now? (52:45) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.6	Here you go.
0:04.4	It is Monday.
0:19.8	February 24th, 2025. Today's
0:24.5	episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The crown is yours. Prudent. We are talking
0:32.6	about a letter from Commissioner Rob Manford to the owners, all 30 owners in Major League Baseball,
0:40.6	when they were alerted the news that ESPN and Major League Baseball would no longer be partners.
0:50.3	Prudent.
0:51.6	What would you say when I told you, what do you think about? To me, what I think about
0:56.4	when you use the word prudent is that you are trying to do something that is in the best
1:02.0	interests of yourself or others, but then you decide to do something else that may have the
1:09.0	opposite impact and you say, well, that may not be prudent.
1:14.5	The commissioner chooses his words extremely carefully, way more carefully than most people do.
1:21.8	Background, lawyer, labor lawyer, working under Commissioner Seleague, takes over baseball, Commissioner Manfred does.
1:30.7	2014.
1:32.7	15.
1:33.8	Year by year, executes, implements, changes in a landscape where media dollars matter more than ever,
1:42.3	where you're having the absolute erosion of local
1:47.0	broadcast revenue, which is the fuel that has driven baseball to success and set revenue
1:54.3	records year after year after year. We found out in a letter that somehow appeared in public.
2:04.1	You know from watching nothing personal that the way letters appear in public.
2:09.8	Is there leaked?
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