David Sampson

And I believe that he's being paid $13 million by the Tampa Bay Rays.

And I would tell you, given my experience with the Rays' front office, when they choose to pay a pitcher $13 million...

I believe that they know something that I got wrong or my guys didn't see.

And that's not an investment that they throw away.

Like, hey, we need innings.

Let's sign him and give him $13 million.

They don't engage in that sort of behavior because they can't.

And so they had an expectation for him.

And he came in.

And I'm going to draw the comparison to the Marlins in a second.

But look what he's done as a $13 million pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays.

He is leading that staff and leading that team as we sit today to be the best team in the American League in a division that was supposed to be all about everybody but them.

It's amazing.

And it's important to think about that because what happens is that people get hired from that organization.

They go to other organizations.

You try to find people with connectivity to the organization.

And then you realize when they're on their own, like, oh, was it more of a team effort?

Like, and I'm not saying that Peter Bennix is doing a bad job with the Marlins, but the Marlins want to be the Rays and they're not the Rays.

I'm sorry to say that, but nobody's the Rays.

We tried for years to be the Rays.