Serena Williams is greatness; Tony La Russa career might be over now; MLB lets Angel Hernandez know how bad he is (Episode 653)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

Today’s word of the day is ‘40’ as in Serena Williams as in almost 41 as in Serena Williams at 40 just took down the number 2 seed in the US Open. What? She won the first set in tiebreak, lost the second set, and smashed it home in the third. She is greatness. She is perseverance. She is 40! (8:38) Tony La Russa is taking a leave of absence because of a heart issue. The 77-year old is the manager of the Chicago White Sox, who have been a huge disappointment. Miguel Cairo has taken over responsibilities of manager. (15:25) MLB has responded to Angel Hernandez after he sued for discrimination. MLB said Hernandez was so bad in the ALDS and that’s why he didn’t get to umpire in the World Series. How about that? (21:55) Review: Five Days at Memorial & Katrina Babies. (31:55) NPPOD. (34:15) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the future of RSNs. What are these? How do you watch your local teams play? Yea… (43:35) Aaron Donald spoke about joint practices. In the Rams practice he took a helmet and swung it at a Bengals player during one of these practices. What he had to say was pretty interesting. 

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2022-09-01 47 min

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