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No More Excuses #MarnerOut
For everyone in this thread who was so sure that the FO had nothing to do with Bassitt clarifying his comments, Shi Davidi pretty much admitted that him, Zwelling and the FO were united in wanting clarification.
The description below does not strike me as an organization that faces only situational problems that are unfixable rather than structural:Blair: What's your sense of the message he wanted to get out there? And do you think there's any, I hesitate to use the word fallout. You think there's any reaction to this from the front office or from John Schneider?
Shi: I'm sure that the front office raised it with him and said, what did you mean? And that was the question that Arden and I just approached him with was just, hey, what did you mean by this?
Shi: I think there was just a lot of truth in what he said and really just a lot of things that have been painfully obvious if you've been watching all season long.
Blair: And, of course, the beauty of that is that even if that wasn't the message he meant to send, that's how it kind of landed and in some ways that might... In some ways that might accomplish something to his benefit, if you know what I'm saying.
Shi: Yeah, I mean, look, I think a lot of people, and I've heard this in private conversations, that a lot of people are sort of acknowledging a lot of hard truths about where the Blue Jays are as an organization this year, right? That a lot of this organization has come under the microscope, rightly so, based on where they were a few years ago and where they are now and what's happened with the window of opportunity.
This is what it is. This is what everybody's seeing. And so, you know, having it out there, having this discussion happen, having maybe some people in the organization have to face what other people see and how they perceive them, you know, that can only be healthy because that's what you're going to have to do in order to move forward. And as opposed to thinking everything's all right, I mean, it's not.
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