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That's going to be great. Welcome to this program. I'm just going to be straight up with you. It's one of those days of the year where Wimbledon is basically the only live event that's going on right now. And we have that sort of talking to the substitute teacher type feel here on this program.

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No laying up. We're going to have him back on this program to give us a little bit of an idea of what the hell did go down on Capitol Hill yesterday when the US Senate started looking into the live tour PGA Tour agreement and the documents that got revealed and what they revealed about anything that's real or is it just a lot of negotiating like hey I want a green jacket. I want a cheeseburger and you'll get nothing in like it. So we'll discuss all of that with Kevin Van Valkenburg later on on this. Program good to see over there Chris Brockman. How are you sir? What's up brother?

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I'm great. The Major League Baseball all-star game last night National League wins three to two. It was a 2-1 game going into the eighth inning and Elias Diaz of the Colorado Rockies hitting a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista of the Baltimore Orioles and that's the way the National League won their first all-star game in 11 years.

How about that? So congratulations to the National League which who knows based on all the news coming out of Seattle that expansion might be coming to Major League Baseball and the leagues themselves might get mixed up and all of that business. Lots of change coming to the world of Major League Baseball. Last night game time three hours and three minutes. There was a pitch clock in the game last night that did start.

I loved it. I'll be straight up with you. I loved the way it started with Garrett Cole giving up two shots in the first inning. One snagged by Randy Rosarena and let's just put it this way. When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and Elias Diaz of the Colorado Rockies hitting a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way. When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way. When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way. When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way. When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way. When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way.

When the all-star game starts with a two-run shot off of Felix Bautista and let's just put it this way. Like a United Nations gathering, a Benetton commercial. I want to see everybody in their uniforms home and away. The American League would have had a home uniform on and instead you know you're seeing their caps and you can't even tell what team it is because the caps aren't the colors of their original team so you it's it's all just one big mishmash of colors that you don't normally see them wearing and I can't stand it. The NFL did that too right? They started creating uniforms specifically for the Pro Bowl and red white and blue or stuff like that. The NBA did it. The one year the NBA had the players wear their own jerseys and I thought that was great. That's the way it always was. Yeah this is and the pants just the all black pants on the NL team with a little logo on the hip like it was so confusing. You can't tell who is which one.

Didn't like it. You can't tell. Certainly since so many of these stars as you pointed out yesterday when we were asking how many hall of famers are in the lineups tonight prior to yesterday's game. Well you said that there's a lot of young stars. Young stars. So there's a lot of young stars. There are a ton of Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles that were in this game and they're young stars that a lot of folks don't know and can anybody tell which team these guys are on?

Put them on the items. And the other thing too about last night that I did notice and then I'll get to a couple things of positive notes that I like because you know I'm a glass half full guy. I'm a baseball guy. You know the introductions you know you used to when you're introduced in an all-star game if you were reserve you just ran out to the baseline of your side and you'd step forward with your names announced and wave your your hat and then if you were a starter you came running out of the dugout and then you stand you stood in your spot on the line and you you you waved. Last night baseball decided to have a a carpet from the right center field bullpen fence all the way in and they announced team by team it took a half an hour. So for a sport that was so it's so about selling themselves on pace of play it took a half an hour to introduce everybody and they were running in you know like it was a brawl I'm coming in I'm coming in from the pen it took a half an hour you know and I was just like can we get to the game already and then when the game started you got a sense that these guys wanted to win you really did and I really enjoyed the fun competition of it and I thought Fox did a great job I mean miking up Freddy Freeman and Mookie Betts although the unfortunate part about that is we were listening to Mookie and Freddy Freeman have bi-play when Otani's up there and you know and we're listening to this when Zach Galin who's an incredible pitcher and that nasty pitch he struck Otani out on like I would have liked to have focused in on that a little bit but hearing Freddy Freeman is just an absolute delight when he told a Rosarena when a Rosarena's singled and he told him uh you gotta choose one thing or the other you can't you can't uh steal a hit and get a hit you gotta choose one that was funny and then I want to talk about a bold choice how about Nate Vivaldi saying I will wear a wire and an earpiece while I'm pitching in an all-star game it's cool and and so he's hearing you know like Joe Davis go it's a two-one pitch like he's hearing the narration of his pitching while he's pitching but can they turn that off yes but they don't Joe they don't they leave it on for the pitcher yeah oh the pitcher was hearing he was hearing everything and and the neat part about it is I think they you know Joe Davis stopped doing that when Avaldi had a couple runners on base but then he started talking pitch strategy with Smoltz that's cool it smells like what are you gonna throw here and then you could sort of hear himself also say to himself when he threw a first pitch strike I forget to who he's like finally got ahead of somebody so you're hearing is he like shared his inner monologue with us but that's what this game is for now it doesn't do it I loved series home field not on the line let's kind of mess around and have some fun and innovate a little bit I've never seen a pitcher miked up with an earpiece in while he's actually pitching yeah and if you uh you know Avaldi started giving up hit after hit and he's what are you gonna mic him up and talk to him as he's being taken out of an all-star game like you have to right there's you're running risks as a broadcast but also is the pitcher there's a bold choice and he didn't give up any runs that was one of the maybe one of the most impressive performances I've ever seen in an all-star game I'm a pitcher you know so that was fun the scoring was tough for me you know 3-2 final you look at some of the other all-star game those days are over NBA you know they're scoring 180 the Pro Bowl is in the 40s and we're locked in a 3-2 pitchers duel because every pitcher throws 105 it's also the only sport that's not that fun though it's not a lot of action baseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball defense possesses the ball that is the only sport the game now is all about action it's about speed of play and it's about putting the ball in play got it runs are up stolen bases are up average is way up this year and then you get a 3-2 all-star game and you're like that takes over three hours and you're like huh well it's because some of the scoring in a major league baseball game is because the person coming in in the fifth sixth and seventh isn't as effective consistently as you would like because you know what i'm saying is that everybody that throws out of the pen in a major league baseball all-star game is somebody you can touch 100 and probably some throw some off-speed pitch at a stupid rate where it's still off speed at 93 you know and so and so and invariably they're facing somebody who's pinch hitting coming off the bench which is a reason why Diaz's home run was really impressive you're coming off the bench all-star game that's Felix Batista up there he went yard you know and then again you know Diaz versus Batista is like was anybody saying on Tuesday morning can't wait for that match up it's not they're young stars that you don't know and they're wearing these nondescript uniforms you can't even tell while they're at the plate what team they're on originally where can i follow this guy as Diaz is rounding the bases if you just turned it on you're like where can i follow this guy that just got me off a couch oh i can't tell because i can't see he's a Colorado Rocky yeah well anyway David Sampson's about to join us uh Kevin Van Valkenburg of No Laying Up and our number two uh will be a great conversation about what happened on Capitol Hill yesterday what are the next steps for the live tour and the PGA Tour as the Royal and Ancient takes center stage next week um on uh for the open championship at Royal Liverpool something you can watch on Peacock right here on Roku and uh so um and Cam Smith last year's winner plays on the live tour so next week's gonna be quite fascinating so we'll hit all that with Kevin Van Valkenburg i have the top five things i want to see the most on the new york jets hard knocks it's coming now officially 844-204-rich number to dial we'll take your phone calls throughout the day trust me we've got more than enough time for you as we keep an eye on an emerging story happening across the pond as i'm mandated to say as an American sports broadcaster of note a 27 year old Christopher Eubanks played tennis at uh Georgia Tech at age 27 making a run for the ages he is trying to close out um Medvedev to advance to the semi-finals of Wimbledon Medvedev the three seed so this is happening right now we'll keep an eye on that over the next three hours 844-204-rich number to dial right here on the Rich Eisen show we'll talk baseball with David Sampson the host of the Nothing Personal podcast former president of the Marlins when we come back are you currently enjoying the show on the Stitcher app then you need to know Stitcher is going away on august 29th yep going away as in kaput gone dead rest in peace Stitcher and thanks for 15 years of service to the podcast community so switch to another podcast app and follow this show there apple spotify or wherever you listen back here on the Rich Eisen show a couple minutes away from our radio audience returning that's when we're bringing our first guest of the day David Sampson um so where are we right now um in uh in Wimbledon right now he's up two sets to one is it six five am i seeing that properly that's six five so Daniel Medvedev just uh went up six five so we're we're one service hold by Eubanks away from a third fourth set tie break correct correct that if Eubanks wins he wins this match and gets to the semifinal correct yeah wow wild wild story have you ever been to Wimbledon i've not i've only ever been to the us open which is incredible yes open's amazing yeah but uh you know Wimbledon's on that bucket list australian opens the only one i've never been to i've never you've been to Wimbledon mike no i want to go i want that's a bucket that's one of my checks you'll never go don't say that you'll never go you know because you're you're i i you know i have these tickets to Wimbledon but i gotta do i gotta do that game on fs1 no i won't do the game i'll go i'm gonna decide three more years and i'm done are you taking my retirement date's 37 did you did you do it no you're not when you're retiring three years really mike you said that three years ago see like farv no yo really that's what everyone says but you won't be able to i'm not gonna lie last week you're in three years i would stay with you guys yeah thanks throw some i'm not gonna try honestly i'm not gonna do it honestly it's like it's like you're semi-retired sitting here yes go ahead yes Wimbledon's a checklist i only have three things i want to do oh yeah did you get out of your gig that we were talking about so you could go to some concert gave the tickets away that's exactly why you'll never go to Wimbledon i asked you won't even go to go he didn't really he was kind of hedging on it cool the gang in uh an earth wind fire he had tickets to that you wouldn't even give it away he mentioned it in passing like three weeks ago and then never mentioned oh boy wow look at us the rich eisen show radio network back on the air the rich eisen show desk is what i'm sitting at it's furnished by granger with supplies and solutions for every industry granger has the right product for you call click granger.com or just simply stop by back here on the rich eisen show as i mentioned he is the host of the nothing personal podcast and former executive uh with the florida marlins david samson back here on the rich eisen show how you been david i am doing well rich good to hear from you what'd you what'd you make of last night's all-star game what'd you think i loved it i loved the chance for julio rodriguez i love the chance for shohay otani begging him imploring him to come to seattle i love the chance about selling the team for oakland i loved i loved the excitement the possibility of the walk-off by julio at the end it was great what do you think manford thought of it sitting there here in those chants what do you think does not make him happy i've sat with him when there have been chants or boos uh he doesn't enjoy that but he is he's pretty good about trying to separate it though maybe maybe gotten a little bit worse as the years have passed in the beginning it would be absolutely sloughed off off and i think it impacts him a little more this oakland situation has just been a disaster from a pr standpoint well i mean it's happening right i mean the the the a's are gone i can't imagine how you know they wind up staying in oakland long term based on anything that's happening right now right this thing's toast no i actually don't agree i'm one of the few who have been saying from the beginning this is what i did trying to get a new ballpark for miami is we went right to the edge of relocation okay right to the edge like almost tipped our toes in the vegas waters it's what you may remember the san francisco giants did this they were moved to tampa it was a done deal and then all of a sudden they had a ballpark deal in san francisco uh the white socks back in the day we're going to move to tampa also tampa was the stalking horse for all these different teams i still think there's a chance as a matter of fact the mayor met with the commissioner in uh seattle in an effort to show the commissioner how much public money they're willing to give to keep the a's right and so but the commissioner has basically come out and said it's a done deal essentially how does i guess anybody could reverse course walk me through how you see the a's could stay in oakland uh a deal would have to fall apart in vegas the political atmosphere in nevada um basically blows it up i mean is that what happens or walk me through your thought process no they got they got the public money they wanted out of nevada and they got it in a way that it's not specifically for the oakland a's actually it's for a major league baseball team so nevada and las vegas are perfectly primed and ready to be an expansion opportunity and mlb wants to expand that's the number one issue for the commissioner and he came out and said no expansion until oakland and tampa are taken care of but what he didn't say is there's other teams with stadium issues once oakland and tampa are done you've got milwaukee you've got arizona it'll be a whole new cycle of new stadiums and threats it's the endless cycle and so in oakland the way a deal could come together is they haven't yet done any agreements in nevada no construction agreements no operating agreements no non-relocation agreements we had to negotiate for over a year with the county and the city in miami for agreements that are inches thick hundreds and hundreds of pages and it's not done in vegas and there's a lot of progress on the howard terminal so i think it just takes a conversation between john fisher and rob manford to get oakland back on the front burner for oakland and uh they'd have to want to do that though right do you think they want to do that deep down harder hearts they'd hit a reset button on it david no i i don't think that that's what john fisher wants but at some point the owners have the bigger say so if john fisher doesn't have the votes he needs 23 votes to relocate to vegas and owners don't like rewarding other owners unless it's been earned we never would have been allowed to relocate the marlins we had not been in the game long enough and we knew that so it was an empty threat when we were threatening relocation because we knew we didn't have the votes i'm not so positive john fisher has the votes right now to take away an expansion market well david you know i uh i i want to make sure that you're you're uh you know leaving this show in a few minutes uh better than what i just found you so i say this in in that spirit maybe um the marlins didn't move to vegas is because you're pronounced nevada nevada which pisses people in nevada off significantly i know you went to cardozo you might have picked it up there back east um but i just want to make sure you understand i don't want people to be pissed nothing personal as they say on your pond uh but it's nevada david so i will go with nevada from now on you have to trust me you do not want to piss these people off they get the city in kentucky where they make bats louville okay that's what i say louville you have to it's not louisville you have to it's not louisville they that pisses them off okay it's louville by the way i would on sportcenter whenever i talked about denny crumbs team or whatever i wrote it down on my script l-o-u dash ville that's how i did it so you understand also stewart scott wrote booyah boo yow v-o-y-o-w just want to let you know that too david okay it has to be a top five list of cities that are mispronounced yes and i assume louville and the state of nevada there you go are on that one david samson the coachable david samson here on the rich eisen show okay what is happening in the front offices of the los angeles angels today the day after seattle fans are chanting for otani chants are great but uh otani saying through his interpreter losing sucks uh the angels know that they're one game under 500 now and mike trout is out for the foreseeable future what is happening in that front office do you think today david samson they're approaching arty moreno as they do every year with a possible plan and arty moreno tends to veto such a plan he doesn't want to be the owner who traded the best player who ever played baseball he doesn't want to get it wrong and he wants to believe that he can resign otani i think it's practically malpractice not to trade him but i predicted on nothing personal that he won't get traded the angels are very unlikely to make the playoffs they could make go on a run maybe but it's unlikely in the american league he is a wild card and so why not try to get something for otani and do a chapman when the yankees traded him for the cubs he won the world series with the cubs and then they resigned him as a free agent i believe that the angels could still do that with otani but i don't believe moreno has the guts to trade him well what was it net him back you know a rod said on the pre-game show last night hey if i'm seattle i trade for otani right now and my thought would be if i'm the angels to trade him in division uh i'd have to ask for either louise castillo or i'd even say screw it uh i'll ask for j-rod you know what i mean like this is otani i get that no i i get it but uh so then they're not getting otani then i uh you know let him walk i guess or i will trade him somewhere else you know um and the question is is if he is a rental uh what does the rental of the world's rarest most expensive most wanted car look like to you so a couple things i want to address is that now that the schedule is balanced it's not as big a thing to trade in your division that used to be a very big thing with owners they never wanted to trade like the yankees wouldn't trade with the metts even though that's not division or jeffrey lauria our owner would say we're not trading with the braves or the metts that really isn't as big a thing as it used to be okay but the rental concept rich that's the big deal is how do you value a player when you may only have him for a few months and the first thing that you ask during the negotiation is you ask for a window to negotiate and i don't think otani will sign a deal with anybody who trades for him but you ask for that window and even that permission is worth an extra player when you're negotiating a trade huh okay so give me an idea of what uh a trade for otani the rental would look like david two prospects in in a team's top 30 and two major league ready players off your team that's it it's a trade where you can say if you're the angels that we're we have players for our future we have players for now and our full intent is to resign otani and for the team that acquires him they get to say to their fan base hey we're going for it we're all in look what we traded we traded four players for a guy who may play 70 games for us and once you're in the playoffs it's a crapshoot whether you're going to win the world series you know that it takes a lot of luck to actually get the ring and so you're risking trading away a lot of your system for a very short term rental so the real value for otani would have been last year the way the nationals traded soto and got all those players because capadres had so many years with him the people who get otani you got a few months it's not enough so a couple questions following up there the two major league ready players are one of them um all-star caliber i mean because again i understand you're just getting otani for two months but it's otani you're getting for two months you're not just you're getting you're getting an ace pitcher and you're getting a thumper and you're getting a guy who can go from first to third and could go from second to home you don't have to pinch run i mean he is the true unicorn that you're getting is and fanny's in the seats ass is in the seats i mean so you'd have to get at least uh an all-star caliber player back no for him so not for a rental it just so the way we would do it is on the board it's actually two trades we would look at trading otani the pitcher and otani the hitter and what would each of those in a deadline deal a rental deadline deal what would that get and you could say would get you one good prospect one medium prospect and one other body so there is a world where it's six to one six players for one with two top prospects two middle prospects and then two others sometimes even window dressing but that sort of number is what makes sense to me uh but again soto was worth more than otani is now even though otani is a way better player and he's two players the extra time in uniform actually trumps the difference in talent david samson nothing personal podcast host as well as former marlin's president here on the rich isin show so then you also said uh when you threw that potential deal for otani out there for the angels perspective saying our intent is to still resign him do you think the angels would have a better shot at keeping otani if they looked him in the face and said look you know trout broke his hand we get it we want you to be with a winner we want you to taste winning but we're coming for you we still want you um do you think that that is that's possible that they that it would be better for them to trade him uh out of love rather than hold on to him and hope what do you think about that david is that what you're implying that i actually talked about it on nothing personal that exact exact scenario where arty or somebody could be perry but goes to show hey and says listen where do you want to go we want to give you this gift we'll figure out a trade the team you want to go to the player empowerment the likes of which you only see in the nba we'll do it for you right here but i want to know that we're in the game if you're telling me that there is no chance that you will come back then i'm less inclined to do what you want here but if you're willing and want to and if you want to stay with us great we'll skip getting the six assets you tell me show hey what you want i would do that to the player even though it goes against my views of player empowerment well and obviously it would be um easier to do that if you trusted the player and his representative or you truly understood his intent and and his inner workings and the way he ticks we had pedro martinez on yesterday david and he said otani's so nice he will never ask out he will never say this isn't working for me losing sucks i want out of here so what do you know about otani's intention his who is who is his agent what are they doing behind the scenes at all so i don't know otani i know ichiro very well and so i can tell you that the level of respect that ichiro has for the game is very likely shared by otani the the the way that ichiro respects management respects his teammates understands the process never wants to ruffle feathers of any kind i can imagine showing being that way but if you are shohei's agent you have you have begun the process so tampering goes on all the time we would speak to agents about players on other teams all the time yeah and it was normal everybody was and so you've got to understand what the market is and you've got to give your player meaning shohei all of the opportunities that he wants which is to go to a team that's going to win go to a team that can still have a high payroll even while paying him 50 or 60 or 70 a year and being in a city where he's comfortable and the agent is in position to know that better than anybody david samson here in the rich eisen show so i guess just to wrap up this conversation um the angels going into the season their hope was trout rendon otani all the rest of the kids that we have it's gonna blossom it's gonna bloom phil nevin's gonna do it we're gonna go to the playoffs otana's gonna see what it feels like to go to the playoffs here who knows how far we go but it'll be great and that'll be easier to re-sign him uh that bird has flown i think that is not happening that is now fantasy land and it's certainly i think settled into the minds of everybody involved when the hammock bone inside um trout's hand broke so what what happens now that that best case scenario for the angels is gone what is the best case scenario for the los angeles angels right now with otani do you think it's that there was a deal in place when he came from japan and something that the commissioner sent us all a memo about saying if you have a deal in place with otani that is for his free agent years we're going to find you and you're going to be in violation of the rules and we're going to punish you we all thought that the angels had violated that when he chose the angels as you recall it was not an like a dice case situation he didn't have a huge signing bonus we were all competitive the marlins could have signed otani it was all about uh where otani wanted to be and we were told you can't promise him anything but we thought already moreno did we're going to find out soon enough whether he did and how much money actually otani may or may not have been promised so where this goes is fascinating everybody's watching it within baseball and outside of baseball frankly it's the biggest story right now in baseball well whatever moreno may have offered him um okay allegedly not factually reported correct uh it it certainly can't be worth what he's worth now honestly so maybe it was just an option so he could opt out so what would that what what if this in fact happened david what would that look like what would the evidence the fingerprint be for something like that it's almost impossible and because in the scenario where you can catch someone doing something nefarious it would be if otani were hurt or wasn't a good player and all of a sudden got this large contract right that didn't seem to fit the talent that would be the smoking gun that's what baseball would be looking for out of the angels now if you give otani 700 million dollars over seven years it would be hard to argue that oh that was a pre well they wouldn't have been it wouldn't have been that it wouldn't have been that right so the evidence would be if it's 400 million right that if he takes a hometown discount to stay there i don't think he will i mean honestly he may be a sweet heart of a guy but this this contract could start with a seven and i don't think anyone would bat an eye lash right so you're saying something really funny which is imagine now given otani if he signed a 200 million dollars a year deal yeah right then we look and say wait a minute that can't be right yeah that reeks of 2018 that's that reeks of something that happened a long time ago you know exactly so we're gonna wait to see it's gonna be fascinating to watch but otani to me is gonna break the record because you're signing two players he takes up two spots which is what you want you can pay a 26th man the minimum because he is top of the rotation starter and the middle of the rotation bat all in one player the long term part is the problem because it's hard to imagine while it's been three years in a row how many more years can he do this can this really be his entire career i that's a bet that's really hard to make but owners will be willing to forget the last four years of a long-term deal and hope that he's good at one of the two things david samson that would be a bonus yeah that would be no question about that uh david samson before i let you go um news breaking out of new york city out of the bronx new york the yankees have made a deal with star two r's if you're scoring at home i believe uh insurance and um their their deal with star insurance must be so insanely lucrative because they're putting the logo of this insurance company on the uniform on the freaking yankees you know uh do we need to take up like 25 it's does hal need the money like really like what what is this about do you think david seriously i i'm not familiar with what you're asking because that's like saying when a company is profitable does it not do something to make more profit of course they do so you're always looking for new revenue streams and so this is a revenue stream available to the yankees that is not owned by major league baseball so they don't split it 30 ways so they're going to capitalize on it much like they are on owning their own streaming service through yes network so the fact that they can get 20 to 25 million is a real problem for baseball because it again separates the halves from the have-nots even further the marlins deal with adt i promise you is not 20 million a year well i don't think it's gonna be a problem for baseball david because you know cashman will spend it on one guy who can't hit the curve right it just he's gonna be all or nothing at the plate you know we we know that that's still a problem so right we'll be have two or three trips to the injured list we all know that's what will happen with that extra cash so what do they care i wouldn't bat an eye you can't say that because they don't sign the right players that the ability to sign the players to begin with should be discounted oh that doesn't seem fair excellent pushback david i appreciate you pointing that out but honestly though i mean the tradition and i i i that doesn't matter or is this like a larger deal that has to do with another business outside of the yankees you know what i'm saying like he's growing more than just the pie for you know a revenue where he doesn't care about a luxury tax you know what i mean like we might be seeing that i don't know i don't i don't have to get too conspiratorial although it's his business he could do it he does business with jerry jones and named stadiums and does all those deals could that be part of this i don't know because why the hell put a patch on the yankee uniform what are you doing because they can remember it was not allowed before this is a new revolution wait till you see the helmet patches those are coming just you wait what do you mean what do you mean helmet patches um uh advertisements on the helmet where's that going side front where are we going back i think it would have to be side or back i think side they do it internationally right now baseball allows it internationally yes they're going to start allowing it teams just wait like a nascar helmet that's what you're saying i think it'll only be one okay just one i think your nascar helmet is having like 12 spots well if they start looking like the wolverine helmet then we got a problem you know like if a guy with who's who's got 15 touchdowns for the wolverines it fills up his entire helmet oh god just changed my life rich is that what those stickers are that every time you score a touchdown you get the sticker same thing with a buckeye everything yeah or you do something well on the field good tackle good moment in practice you get you get a sticker that's what it is oh so it's not just touchdowns it's any time who who's in charge of the stickers i don't know that's a good question coach somebody um it's not me i know that i i definitely know it's not me oh it's i think the mld helmets will look like that i know david thanks for the call appreciate it congrats on the success of your pod again um and uh let's do this uh again very shortly appreciate it i look forward to it have a great day right back at you that's david samson everybody right here on the rich isin show i guess we'll find out since rd moreno did a little wink wink and a nod nod you come here i'll take care of you what's what's your beak whatever side agreement that may have happened back then isn't even close right is not even remotely in the area code so what's that three years ago right three years ago otani yeah no this is his fifth year i think has he been there five years already six six years let's say it's a 2017 yeah 2018 was his first year okay but this is year six so then whatever what would be the the biggest contract in major league baseball in 2018 well i think it was harper and machado back then right i think it's predates harper and machado doesn't it but it was in the i think it was probably whatever samson gave stanton gave stanton which was what 280 300 something like that double it now you can but back then back then you know that's back there it's like we're not you know that's a lot remember harper and machado it went all the way almost to the combine to this start of spring training i remember that for those guys to get their big deals fun conversation once again double it very important it's nevada you say nevada to somebody or oregon oh yeah to somebody from oregon morgan honestly bad news when we when i was in in redding california doing local news we had a sister station in medford in oregon and i was a new yorker and i called it oregon you know how we'd call it back in the day so you know when we were there when i so i started the same deal i started writing on my sheet the word oregon just like playing oregon that's it i wrote o-r-g-a-n louisville louisville like it is you know you wouldn't call it oregon donation you know what i mean well it's not the oregon trail oregon you know nevada louisville you know another write it down town i hear instead of birmingham they pronounce it birmingham bummingham birmingham it's not warchester it's not warchester it's not warchester quincy isn't like the m-d no the m-e there's a z in there i learned all this stuff over time we'll take a break 844-204-rich number to dial what was your baseball game like my baseball game actually my baseball game was pretty good but i i couldn't i didn't play in high school i played like recreational league and um babe ruth okay and i used to pitch pitch as well pitch and hit yeah so what was your pitching game the pitching game was pretty good i mean i didn't you know i thought it was a heavy ball i didn't know i had no idea what i was fast i was throwing but people used to say man you got a heavy ball so when you were watching you swing in major league as pedro serrano yeah is that your swing that's my swing oh and i don't know if we ever talked about this but every ball i hit out i hit out except it not as far as they shot it out because they have to reverse the camera hold on a second dennis hansburg how many how many home runs did you hit well i hit well i hit three in in the movie right i think i hit three and move i hit every one of them i hit out okay and all the batting practice you oh yeah i used to hit oh yeah i used to hit routinely so were you the best hitter of all the actors i would say so i would say so charlie and i were the only guys that could really play play baseball um wesley was really athletic okay he could run but uh wasn't much of a hit he couldn't hit but you but could charlie hit or he was just charlie could hit and charlie could pitch but you went yard more than anybody else in the cast of major league except for the you know the guys the baseball guys that were out there actual so who was the worst i can't i won't say yes you can you absolutely can that microphone works corbin bernson could he uh corbin was okay uh i think tom tom barington was like maybe no kidding yeah i love you tom he forced it out of me man our youtube archive go check it out but be very careful make sure you have time because you can go down an algorithm wormhole with our almost nine-year history of the rich eisen show at youtube.com slash rich eisen show great chat with david samson right there he thinks it's still a shot for oakland to regain the a's if things work but the owner the owner wants to go to vegas i think the commissioner would prefer to have a team in vegas i think put words in your mouth david's point of major league baseball does want to expand so that's using up one of the hot expansion spots so you're going to put a team back in oakland as an expansion i doubt it seems unlikely cheaper to keep her as they always say and how about he's basically saying the angels should have traded otani before the season last year was there but you you you're going with otani and trout and all you you're you're trying you're going for it you're trying it's a message like it was working it was interesting point on the soto how you know they were able to get a little bit more because if he had two years left on his deal rich in temecula california you're here on the rich eisen show what's up rich how you doing rich what's going on bud what's going on in your mind hey you know i was watching that game you know i'm from seattle and what a reception there you know chatting out come to seattle no tawny and all that and kind of shrugged i saw a couple reports what i would think of the proposed trade even though it's inner division it would have to give up somebody like a kirby a logan gilbert maybe a kelnick and a couple top talented guys to trade for a tawny i don't know if that's going to happen but if that's what the angels are thinking inner division that's what seattle would have to do a couple number one two younger starters maybe kelnick and a couple young young studs but my thought is he's going to end up in la like an eight year 640 like 80 million year with the dodgers so that's kind of let me just tell you something and thanks for the call great food for thought brother thanks for the call um first of all how if i'm not going to do that if otani winds up with the dodgers it would be again i think please now um hold on a second i believe um uh pedro was the one who brought up had uh hadeo nomo nomo mania was was in sane in this town and how much better is otani than nomo uh three x five x i mean uh with all due respect all star games no i mean otani again he doesn't put on the uh the starter warm-up jacket when he reaches base okay yeah so it would be insane and i know you're like please don't and i know why you're saying that however you would take cage all the time damn straight you wouldn't so again that's why i'm saying it's not just any rental here it's the greatest rental in the history of expensive rare most in-demand cars in the history of cars it's the great it's it's the most incredible rental ever so that's why i'm one of them i'm one of the two prospects of your top 30 and your your best players to two major league ready players and i heard i know the names that um you know our colleges threw out from from seattle and i found it interesting david samson said hey the balance schedule now you see you're you're in division rivals pretty much the same amount of time you see everyone else but that said you know i know the angels and dodgers play each other a certain amount of times having him just sit right here in southern california i don't know if the angels would ever trade otani to the dodgers unless otani says that's where i want to go but again pedro said he's not going to direct them it's going to be hey it's on you you figure out what to do and then once we're done i'll deal with it that's what it seems like is otani's approach to all this which is unfortunate for the angels because i'd like some direction you know i love some direction but the alternative i mean could you imagine all of this plays out because this intrigue is only gonna you know get more intense certainly if the angels lose more than they win as we're kind of expecting without trout they say they come out of the all-star break here and drop five six seven straight or or four of six or you know and played just barely middling 500 baseball yeah could you imagine otani just plays out a string in september here and just and for a team that nobody they were just paying attention to because they otani is doing otani like things he's in a home run chase or or he's taking a team that is actually in the in in a wild card slash pennant race that's not him and his team could you imagine that happens oh man we'll talk live to our pga tour coming up next so stanton's deal was uh 13 years 325 million i would say you double that for oh not a minute though but 13 is is way too long for like that's a small number for 13 that's true that was 25 a year for stan please 25 a year he's he should make 50 a year what you know what if i'm otani's agent again i'm i'm not comparing him to machado i'm comparing him to messy i'm comparing him to rinaldo and i know i'm i'm i'm talking to soccer fans and or football fans they're like they're not even the best or the highest paid i'm i'm just trying to let folks here in this country know whoever is the highest paid athlete on earth name it whoever that person is playing probably in the premier league right now or or playing football somewhere on planet earth rinaldo is he he is in fact the highest real quick yeah 136 million it says highest paid and i'm sure but you know he's two and bobbie's three lebron that's what i'm i'm saying i want to be paid like that nobody like get out of here that's not that that would break our our entire scale here but that's the way i'm thinking because you know you're going to have asses in seats and patches on arms and trophies and cases most likely how wrestling really works and how you get the ratings eric bischoff and conrad thompson explain on 83 weeks collision has been struggling a little bit out of the gate with these ticket sales a little bit out of the gate this was a major show announced on a 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