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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Samson Sit-Down: Mike Matheny! Former Cardinals & Royals manager!

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Welcome in Mike Matheny! 4x time Gold Glove winning catcher! Former manager of the Cardinals and Royals! He’s also an author! He takes us inside the process of his new book The Dad Coach - How to Lead Kids to Succeed On and Off the Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here you go.

0:03.0

Here you go.

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It's not every day you get an opportunity to sit down with someone who you looked at in the opposite

0:20.1

dugout for many years,

0:21.7

both as a player and a manager. And I couldn't be happier and more proud that we got Mike

0:28.3

Mathini to join us for a show to talk about his new book, his career, and all the things you

0:34.5

may not know about him that make him one of the most interesting players

0:38.6

I've come across during the course of my career. Mike, thank you so much for joining us today.

0:43.6

How are you? David, I'm great. Thank you for the kind introduction.

0:47.7

Well, you're pretty famous to me, obviously, because, A, we had spring training together,

0:53.0

Marlins and Cardinals, so i saw you as a player

0:55.6

and you were there for the opening of marlins park on april fourth of 2012 i assume you remember

1:02.8

that more for something other than it was the opening of the ballpark ah yeah yeah that i got in a bind

1:09.9

right in the beginning.

1:22.6

And Ozzy caught me as I had players moving in and out and almost a fatal mistake of trying to get a player in and where they were in the lineup.

1:24.3

And Ozzy caught me out on it.

1:28.4

Fortunately, the guys were, we had enough talent on our club to cover up for my, my shortcomings. But I also remember someone bringing over a base from that game and given me

1:36.0

a first win, a base off of the field and Miami, and what a great memory that was. I'm grateful

1:43.4

that you did that for me.

1:45.1

So Mike, a funny story for that.

1:46.8

So people, just to play catch up,

1:48.6

that was your first managerial win

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