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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Paul Skenes ready to live up to HIS expectations! Minnesota Twins back on sale! How to fix the CBB Transfer Portal! (Episode 1242)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’bar’ as in raise the bar as in set the bar as in expectations as in Paul Skenes. He’s entering Year 2. Opening Day starter. Cy Young favorite. He spoke with a reporter about what he thinks of the Pirates. What he means to the team. (9:20) Andrew Miller spoke yesterday about salary caps and dynasties in baseball. He now works for the MLBPA. (18:40) The Minnesota Twins want to sell. The Twins owners want $1.7 billion. The Twins hold a ton of debt. The Twins will still sell. (26:01) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Giants and Red Sox approaches to the game and spending. Who will be right? (37:00) A national security failure already. What a world we live in. (43:55) NPPOD. (46:15) The college basketball transfer portal has opened up. A record number of players in there. The system is broken. It’s all broken! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here you go.

0:33.6

Here you go.

0:45.3

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

0:48.3

It's Tuesday, March 25th, 2025.

0:52.6

And we were talking before we hit Go here about setting the bar too high,

0:58.9

which is what Paul Skeens is doing right now, the number one pitcher, the Sy Young Award

1:05.4

favorite, getting ready for his opening day start, first opening day start of his career,

1:12.6

because it's his first opening day in Miami against the Marlins and Sandy Alcantra. And we were trying to figure out if setting the

1:20.3

bar is to do with high jump or is it to do with pole vault. What exactly bar are we talking about?

1:29.3

The reason I said Polvault,

1:33.4

and I'm just curious what you all think, let me know if you're on the nothing person with David Samson chat right now. That means you're listening live to the show, and we're live. But I am curious,

1:40.3

but I can't think of anything other than Polval when it comes to bar, and it obviously

1:45.7

has to do with the video that we've all seen about the man who couldn't clear the high jump

1:51.0

because of various sizes of his bar. Paul Skeen's leading the show because baseball is starting

2:00.3

in two days.

2:02.3

And I wanted to bring to your attention what it means when a player like Paul Skeens is forced to be in a position of leadership at a really young time in his career.

2:16.6

And that leadership manifested itself yesterday

2:19.9

when he came out and talked about his feeling about himself,

2:25.7

the expectations he has on himself.

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