David Samson

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176 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Blair & Barker · Blue Jays' Offseason Options with David Samson · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

And they all of a sudden it felt like a team that would just flip the switch and all of a sudden be ready. voice-verified

Ready to compete and win, and then before you know it, you're in the middle of September. voice-verified

And I worry greatly about what to do as a front office person on that team because your tendency is to leave them be, because you have to believe that they're gonna o wake up in October if they're not there and say, Wow, that was a wasted year of our career in terms of team winning, and that they'll come back and be ready to go again. voice-verified

next year. voice-verified

I think that's probably their best move because if they start moving out pieces, it puts a sort of message of panic into the clubhouse. voice-verified

And I wonder whether that's the right makeup of the team that will respond to a panicked front office. voice-verified

And my guess is no. voice-verified

Mm. voice-verified

office, isn't it? voice-verified

It's so bad I can't even tell you. voice-verified

But it's worse when you've got an an owner who is not patient and you are forced then to overcorrect and be more patient than you want to be, so as not to basically bolster an owner's view that one blown save means that player cannot save another game. voice-verified

Sound like you're speaking from first hand experience. voice-verified

I mean, I'm speaking from 18 years of firsthand experience, and I know very well that what I had to do was pretend that I wasn't as despondent as I was, pretend that I wanted to give players a longer leash than I wanted to, because I didn't want to make changes as on a whim as sometimes we did or were asked to do and then fought to not do. voice-verified

When you have an owner like the Blue Jays owner, I wonder whether from a company standpoint voice-verified

Individual standpoint, the Rodgers view it as listen, I understand the ups and downs of players, I understand the ups and downs of teams. voice-verified

That's the dream owner. voice-verified

And sometimes I think as a corporation, you get that latitude. voice-verified

And I don't have the inside knowledge of what happens inside the clubhouse in Toronto, whether Rogers acts like an individual owner or a corporate owner, because to me that's a huge difference. voice-verified

Like it's voice-verified

Up in the air. voice-verified

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