Rays let deadline pass in St. Pete: is relocation happening?; Micah Parsons v. Jerry Jones heats up! Roki Sasaki is having a hard time (Episode 1248)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘diligently’ as in Rays as in St. Pete as in pursue as in the Trop as in relocation? What is happening with the Tampa Bay Rays? Right now the team is playing at the Yankees Spring Training facility. It’s a one year deal. And then what? Well a major deadline just passed and the Rays let it pass. (11:40) Randy Levine of the Yankees had a statement that is hard to believe. It wasn’t a normal statement. It was a Thank You letter to politicians. (18:08) Jerry Jones has found himself in another situation due to no one other than Jerry Jones. Micah Parsons wants a new deal. Jerry Jones went out of his way to disrespect Parsons agent. Fun! (32:24) Review: Adult Best Friends. (37:40) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Roki Sasaki and his body language after struggling through 2 starts. Hmm. (46:00) NPPOD. (49:00) The St. Louis Cardinals continue to head in the wrong direction. The team underperformed, but the fans showed up. Now the team is just bad, and the fans aren’t showing up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Diligently.
0:03.0	Diligently, that's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, diligently,
0:23.0	as in diligently pursue. As in what St. Petersburg has to do, what the Tampa Bay
0:32.1	Rays have to do. They have to be diligent. The city has to pursue repairs after Hurricane Milton.
0:40.9	The team has to diligently pursue where to play after spending one year at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa Bay.
0:48.8	Let me give you an update where we are with the Tampa Bay raise because the season, while it's only five or six games old, we are months away only from the first draft schedule that should be ready for the
1:01.9	2020-six season. What's needed prior to a schedule is a location where all teams are going to
1:10.3	play.
1:15.4	That seems like a very low bar to catapult over.
1:20.8	The problem is right now, there is no place for the Tampa Bay race to play.
1:24.4	The Yankees made it very clear to Major League Baseball,
1:30.0	as Hal Steinbrenner was smiling at opening day in Tampa at the spring training facility, singing kumbaya, my lord kumbaya, Rob Manford, Dan Hallam at all,
1:38.1	Stu Sternberg, Matt Silverman, at all were always aware it was a one-year deal.
1:44.9	The Yankees do not want the raise playing in their spring training facility come
1:49.0	2006.
1:51.0	Therefore, what are the options?
1:53.8	One, playing a new stadium in Tampa Bay or St. Petersburg.
1:59.0	What's the problem?
2:00.6	Unless we have a 3D printer, it seems
2:02.9	very unlikely that there will be a new stadium designed, constructed, and ready to open by next
2:09.7	season. So no need to diligently pursue that. Two, playing a Tropicana field. Well, unless St. Petersburg and the city council vote to redo and
2:23.2	rebuild Tropicana field, put the roof back on, drain all the sewage out of the bowl, and get
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