Spring Training updates: Ohtani will debut; Injury scares; Players changing positions! Is ESPN Bet toast?; 2025 OSCAR BALLOT! (Episode 1225)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ’Ides of March’ as in March as in Spring Training as in MLB as in baseball as in here we go. Injuries? Debuts? Caution? Precautions? What is the front office looking at? New arm angles and new batting stances! (13:50) We have a bunch of players trying out new positions. Jasson Dominguez. Alex Bregman. Jose Altuve. When does a team nix that change? (19:50) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about PENN Entertainment and ESPN Bet and Draftkings and FanDuel. What do they want to know? (29:09) NPPOD. (34:28) Review: Oscar Ballot. (39:23) Travis Kelce is back. Year 13. Everyone thought the Chiefs would win the Super Bowl and he’d ride off into the sunset. Didn’t win. Didn’t happen. (43:21) We have some rule changes coming to the NFL. Good bye, chain gang! We’ve got technology! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.4	You go.
0:47.0	That's the Nights of March.
0:49.5	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:52.0	Beware the Ides of March.
0:55.2	To all of my brilliant listeners.
0:56.5	Love you all.
0:59.0	Of course it's not March 15th.
1:02.1	It's February 28th, 2025.
1:02.9	It's Friday.
1:05.0	I know you're paying attention.
1:08.2	Why do I say, beware the odds of March? Because I'm fine that Caesar got assassinated on March 15th,
1:13.7	like over 2,025 years ago. But for me, in baseball, when the calendar turned to March,
1:22.6	I would wake up on March 1st, which is tomorrow, so we're not going to wake up together.
1:28.5	Very sad to not wake up together on Saturdays and Sundays.
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