NIL has changed hockey forever! Gavin McKenna commits to PSU! Draymond Green sounds off on CBA!

Today’s word of the day is ‘consequences’ as in the NHL as in NIL as in Canada as in change. Gavin McKenna is the lock of all locks to be the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. And he’s going to college. A top Canadian JR player headed to the US is unheard of. But NIL has changed the world of hockey forever. We have another investigation into an MLB agent. Another case of an agent taking advantage of a foreign player. It’s sad. Someone had asked me a question about MLB owners and the MLBPA so let me answer that. We have an F1 update! Christian Horner has been fired by Red Bull. Wow. Review: Dept. Q. Draymond Green sounded off on the new CBA. He said free agency is dead. He said players aren’t educated on business. Hmm. The Big Beautiful Bill is already upsetting Congress. Here we go. We’ve got people in Congress writing up bills to change the gambling law in the bill. Woof. NPPOD. It’s So You Wanna Talk to Samson Wednesday! We start off with a question about what goes on during a Players’ Only meeting! Is A.J. Hinch the most valuable manager in baseball? How do you deal with loss? Especially when you are the head of a business or company. Mount Rushmore of candy! This is just a big ole pat on the back for me! Could you see MLB expand internationally to make the game more global? Does it make sense to do this? Banana Ball! Should MLB we worried about the success of the Savannah Bananas?

0:00 – Intro
1:20 – Hockey
11:00 – MLBPA investigation
25:45 – F1
30:00 – Review: Dept. Q
33:30 – Draymond Green
41:45 – BBB
46:00 – NPPOD
53:00 – Players Only
61:10 – AJ Hinch
67:10 – Dealing with loss
75:00 – Candy
80:20 – Thank you
83:30 – MLB Expansion
93:05 – Savannah Bananas

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