Can we get past this at some point? Plenty of GMs have made their name on small market teams only to be hired by bigger markets due to their success. (We've seen it in Boston - Dan Duquette, for example.) And not one of them adopted the small market mentality with their new team.
Andrew Friedman with the Dodgers is another incredibly obvious example, as he is not only a big spender, as of right now, he is the biggest spender ever...