Chapter 1: What thoughtful gift did David give to his colleagues?
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Chapter 2: How does David cope with personal challenges while working?
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David Sampson somehow, and I don't really understand how he's doing this, and I'm about to ask him why he's doing it, continues to trudge through and do nothing personal every day because he has a special relationship with his audience. He appreciates his audience. I assume that's a big part of the answer. But what he's going through at home is...
is true horror, and I won't delve into too many of the details here. You can catch up on nothing personal if you want to know. But one of the details I did want to ask him about is someone who cares about him and knows about him because he's got a sick child daughter in the hospital.
is he seems particularly ill-equipped to be trapped in a hospital as someone who likes his control and, you know, is a bit of a control freak. And he's in a situation that leaves him pretty powerless. So, David, thank you for joining us. And before we get to the sports of the day, why are you still working at a time that it must be very, very hard to work?
Well, I'm only doing three shows this week and I did, I took two weeks after this happened and I wanted to get back because I missed the audience. I missed the feeling of trying to be normal, of trying to control stuff. And the thing about having someone who's sick with my daughter is that I can't plan anything.
So during today's, this morning's show, two things have happened is that an appointment, doctors don't care about my schedule. When an appointment changes, like in the middle of a live show, sometimes I just have to go because I don't get asked whether, are you free on this day at this time? There's no, it's not mutual at all. And then you wait 45 minutes.
So what I'm trying to say is that we had a 9.40 today and it's not 9.40 or whatever time you're listening to this. And I get a lovely text saying, hey, sorry, are you okay? 15 minutes late. Cody couldn't get himself together And I can't stay long today because I was supposed to be gone, but then it changed. That's Greg Cody's fault.
That's all Greg Cody's fault. It's very low on your list of problems and complaints at the moment, but blame Cody.
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Chapter 3: What was the reaction to David's gift among the team?
That's just wrong. What was the gift? One of the coolest things I've ever received. Absolutely. Genuinely. If you can't figure out why certain people in the company got that specific gift, and Roy, if you're listening, it wasn't a Panthers gift. It was a Marlins-related gift.
He loves baseball. I know that about him. Oh, we know that about Roy.
He's the only one here who hit a home run at the old Marlins Park.
I saw it. It went right over my head. It was very impressive.
Metal bat. Okay. Dan, listen, if you guys are really pissed, then I have nothing to say to any of you. Not in the slightest. If that's really how you feel, then that's bullshit, Dan.
I didn't say they were pissed. Whoa, I didn't say they were pissed. I said they were touched. They were all touched, and then they started talking, and they realized they'd gotten the same gift, and then Roy realized he hadn't gotten a gift because they all talked about how thoughtful your gift was. That's how it happened. I'm not saying that they were pissed. They were not pissed.
They all thought it was thoughtful, so thoughtful that they mentioned what a great gift it was. And that's how the cat left the previously aforementioned bag.
I didn't mention it at all.
Were all the notes the same?
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Chapter 4: What emotional impact did the gift have on the recipients?
The wind makes you cry. We were talking, and I was also wondering, David, I said, you know what, is this David potentially showing in my face you weren't at this game and you will never have been at this game? I'm sending you this lineup card so you never forget what I did to you, you son of a bitch.
So I'll give you the background because now you've done it, Dan, and it's so wildly inappropriate of you, but that's your choice. It's your show. It's your name on the show. I'm happy for you. It's really nice. So the background is that I was lucky enough to be... at Ichiro's game in 2016 when he hit his 3,000th hit in Colorado.
And I had the foresight at the time to get lineup cards from that game and have them done and authenticated as the lineup cards from the game. And I asked Don Mattingly, a manager, to sign lineup cards. And I asked Ichiro to sign the lineup card because he started that game. And it had been a big thing. Would he play that day and get his 3,000th hit on the road or not?
Then I got game tickets from that day. And I asked each row to sign those. And I had them for 10 years. This happened in 16, nine years. And I said, after my daughter got sick, I started trying to control those things I could control. So I started doing things that I had not done one of which was to get these framed. And it was no small thing.
I got them framed, and I had a certain number of them. And I had to make decisions on who would get them. And now, if you want to feel badly enough, I will tell you, well, I'm not even. Go on. No, okay, I will.
When you go through and you make a list of who you think would enjoy it, who it would be meaningful to, and I had allocated in my head that it would be for, my three children would get one, and people I've worked with who have a relationship with baseball or with Ichiro, including someone else in our company who got one, Dan, And I forgot about a name.
And so I took one away from my sick daughter thinking, A, she doesn't like baseball. B, will she not even know if she doesn't have one?
That's a cheap trick he just played on us. Because I didn't want one of the names to get one. It's an elaborate dance he just did.
I hope you're happy, Dan. You must feel like a real asshole, Dan.
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Chapter 5: How does David describe his experience with his daughter's illness?
How do you know they weren't plastered all over the dugout? And maybe there were. It would be funny if it was like wallpaper on the dugout that day. Billy is right. It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter. I will say this, though, because they do sell replicas of this thing, but these are not the replicas that they sell. These are hand-marked by Don Mattingly with all of the changes in the game.
So whether or not it's the one that was in the dugout in the day, it's not like one that you just buy. He went in there and it changed the lineup. Who came in to pinch hit? What the pitching changed? All of that is marked, which is not something that's available to the public.
So Billy, the way we do that is when something special happens, we will ask, and you have to ask Major League Baseball and the umpires and the other team, because there's one official lineup card. And everything's authenticated. There's a sticker on your lineup card, so it's actually authenticated.
You can ask for permission to get more lineup cards, just like you can ask to change bases in a big game. You can ask to change bases more often. So you have more things to give or to sell or to give to charity or to just have in your collection. And so this was a game where we had a thought that he's going to get the four at bats. He's going to get the 3,000th hit.
So we asked for more lineup cards and I had a total of 18 of them made and I've had them with me all this time. And I just now got them all framed and was able to FedEx them with notes to people.
that is true of how that genuinely david one of the coolest things i ever got genuinely thank you like yeah sincerely dan apologize you ruined this moment well i'm not gonna apologize and furthermore he just claimed he sent me one and his daughter can have the one that he sent me because i have not seen the one he claims i didn't send you one you were cut from the list
because the last time I sent you something that you just don't, your place is cluttered. You have no attachment to it. I thought there'd be no meaning for you to have it. And I thought that Pablo would actually want one. And so Pablo got one and you did not.
I knew that you thought that how was him saying he also sent one to you. He was scolding you by saying your name. He wasn't saying he also sent one to Dan. And he was saying, I sent another one, Dan. Don't take it personally, David. One year I remember was one of my first years on this show. I got Dan a Christmas gift, and I wrote what I thought was a nice handwritten Christmas card.
And then we came back from the break two weeks later, and so I was still on the desk, and I was like, all right, I'm throwing this in the trash. So it's not just you.
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Chapter 6: What insights does David share about baseball during the episode?
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Chapter 7: What humorous moments arise from the discussions about gifts?
We just say that we do because it makes us feel better.
Oh, but Cody, we know he's a boob, but Cody yesterday, as if he doesn't know what Monster Mashers Toronto is even without Bichette, Cody is at risk of having to walk from here to Seattle on that knee because he thinks that it's, he thought at 2-0-2-0 that it was guaranteed that it's going to be Mariners-Dodgers and that's foolhardy in this sport.
Well, it's 11%, Cody. There's 11% chance when a home team loses the first two games of a seven-game series that that team will go on and win the series. The Yankees did it in 96, the Mets did it in 86, and one other team did it, but that's it. But clearly, it's not over if you are Toronto.
I think the Dodger-Milwaukee series, and I hate to say this for my friends in Milwaukee, who I love, and the city I love, and for Yelich, who I want to get a ring, But it is, I think you're going to see the Dodgers again from the National League. But in the American League, the Blue Jays, think about the game tonight. I mean, Max Scherzer has no business pitching a postseason game.
He's the number nine starter right now with the number one starter's mouth. That's what he is. And you're looking at Luis Castillo, not the Marlins' second baseman, but the Marlins' pitcher who we traded five times. He's going for the Mariners. And they have the clear advantage. If they go up 3-1, you've got to believe. But even then... Toronto can do three in a row without a real big issue.
So this series is up in the air, Chris.
We know we have to get you out of here. It's not Chris Cody. It's Greg Cody that's got to walk to Seattle.
Oh, excuse me.
How can Greg Cody walk?
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Chapter 8: What are the final thoughts on the significance of thoughtful gestures?
They want to be a part of the premiere in Montreal, which was my plan. I was going to do a live nothing personal with old Expos players and all sorts of things. And of course, I didn't go to Montreal. But Netflix said, well, we'd like we'd like you to watch the movie. And I said, OK, do you need my address?
and I'm such an idiot, I thought they'd send like a screener so I could pretend I was Adnan Virk. Instead, they were just like, hey, give me your email. And I said, fine, I don't like giving people my email, but you can have it. And all of a sudden I turn on Netflix and the movie is there. I had to do a code and all sorts of weird stuff. So I watched the movie and it comes out October 21st.
And let's just say that the trailer that Netflix cut, the people who made the movie, I'd like to ask your Hollywood people this, the people who made the movie didn't cut the trailer. Netflix cut the trailer and it's not exactly how the movie goes, I'll say. But I am certainly in it as a featured interview, sort of like the narrator that carries the story forward.
And I make it clear that it is all Derek Jeter's fault, obviously, that I'm sorry, the local Canadian partner's fault that the Expos left.
Wow, that was something interesting that just happened with your short-circuiting of your brain chemistry.
That wasn't on purpose? No, he just instantaneously blamed Jeter. I blamed Jeter for it. I was going to call Jeter and blame him for my daughter's sickness, but I thought that I wouldn't do that. That seems a bit much. Did you send Jeter that you threw a card at him?
No.
No, I definitely cheated. He wasn't on any list, no. I'd like to know where the pictures are of us from the 03 World Championship that he had removed from Marlins Park. Now that he's been fired, I was gonna speak to Bruce Sherman and see if we can get those back somehow. Even if he doesn't wanna put them up, maybe they could just send them so I could have them.
But they're all gone from the ballpark. No, obviously Derek had nothing to do, nor would he even wish this. I haven't heard from him. I've heard from a lot of people, but I've not heard from Derek Jeter. And I'm appreciative of everyone I've heard from, but I don't keep track except on a list. But it is amazing. But no, I didn't kill the Expos, Dan, at all.
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