Former Marlins exec gives fans the finger (literally, not figuratively) as he brags of profits from stadium ripoff

access_time personNeil deMause

Former Miami Marlins president David Samson was never the smoothest in the PR department, what with the way he upstaged the opening of his own team’s stadium by calling Miami residents and legislators “stupid” for giving his ex-stepdad Jeff Loria public money to build it. But this really takes the cake:

Samson showed up in a shiny rich-guy sport coat and dress shirt. He walked onstage to a hail of booing from the sort of drunk bros who would hang out at a Dan Le Batard event…

So how did Samson respond to angry fans? He flipped them off and bragged that he and Loria’s cartoonishly evil antics helped the owner sell the team for $1.2 billion…

“Thank you so much; thank you very much,” a drunk-sounding Samson stammered into a microphone as Le Batard lumbered behind him. “Here’s why I love when you guys boo me. Right. I want you to keep booing me. Because guess what? One-point-two billion. Fuck you!”

Yes, a former sports executive actually bragged about how he didn’t care if people hated him, because he and his boss/stepdad walked away with piles of moneybags thanks to public largesse, and literally said “Fuck you!” while literally giving the audience the finger. If this seems way too on the nose to possibly be true, here is video evidence:

I guess this is just the way things are going to go from now on. I look forward to Henry Kissinger’s upcoming memoir, Yeah, I Helped Send Three Million People to Their Deaths, What Are You Gonna Do About It, Assholes?

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9 comments on “Former Marlins exec gives fans the finger (literally, not figuratively) as he brags of profits from stadium ripoff”

  1. I’m hoping you’re going to write a post about it, but as a Chicagoan (and a Sox fan), I really enjoyed Rahm Emanuel telling the Rickets family no at least 4 times when they wanted to take my money to renovate their park, having them threaten to move, and then ultimately end up paying for everything themselves.

    https://deadspin.com/cubs-owners-discussed-moving-team-out-of-chicago-during-1831179210

    1. Credit’s where it’s due and all, but the public money for Depaul’s arena indicates this was more a case of who was asking than any principled stand.

  3. I always wondered what kind of idiots were the target market for Le Batard and co. Now I know. David P. Samson.

    Surprised to hear he and Loria have “split” (I assume someone else and Loria split, and this was collateral damage/improvement)… they seemed more or less made for each other.

  4. This seems to me to overengineer things. They could just as easily be sports fans who were booing him because he was terrible at his job of developing a team capable of winning games.

  5. Kissinger has started on his sequel: “For a Short, Fat, Ugly Guy, I Snagged Some Quality Tail.”.

  7. I love it. In a world of pretense where these guys are celebrated as exemplars of civic accomplishment for “saving” franchises after they extort hundreds of millions of dollars from communities, David Samson is the black and white, Walker, Texas Ranger villain we need and deserve.

  8. He got the $1.2 billion because of BAM and the growth of baseball rights fees & merchandise sales. The stadium was responsible for maybe 10% of it.

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