Samson said Thursday on The Dan Le Batard Show<\/a>, that he realized he was likely to be the villain of the doc.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen they said, \u2018We\u2019ll come to your house,\u2019 I thought, hmm,\u201d Samson laughed. \u201cThen it was nine hours long, and I thought to myself, what\u2019s this about again? And I didn\u2019t know the title until yesterday, and it\u2019s called \u2018Who Killed the Montreal Expos?\u2019 So I had to call my agent, I had to call my lawyer, I had to call my kids, and I said, \u2018I may have made a mistake.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Samson and his stepfather Jeffrey Loria ran the Expos from 2001-03, using the money from selling the Montreal team to quickly purchase the Florida Marlins. The Marlins won a World Series in 2003, then sold off the core of that team in short order.<\/p>\n
With a track record running both the Expos and Marlins into irrelevance, Samson is seen by some as a disliked executive that cared more for financial success than on-field success. So much so that he has built a character out of it in the Le Batard Show universe.<\/p>\n
Somehow, David Samson still agreed to participate in the Netflix doc without realizing how he might be seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was doing the interview, thinking to myself while it\u2019s going on, \u2018I\u2019m doing great,’\u201d Samson added. \u201cI\u2019m slightly concerned with how the edit\u2019s going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before David Samson developed a media career as a baseball and sports business analyst, he was most known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,41124,82,74854,74855],"class_list":["post-138430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-samson","tag-sports","tag-the-dan-le-batard-show-with-stugotz","tag-who-killed-the-montreal-expos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}