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Apr
19
Royals: It’s the management, stupid
April 19, 2006 |
ESPN calls out the real problem with the Royals. It’s not revenue sharing. It’s not an old stadium. It’s shitty management. The Pitch said the same thing on the eve of the stadium tax vote.
If you were as bad at your job as Royals management is at theirs, you’d be reading this at the … public library because you certainly wouldn’t have a job… At least the Truman Complex is going to be renovated and will include a promenade and all sorts of fan-friendly shenanigans. That should fix everything.
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Yeah, I think that’s a pretty good read on the topic.
Not that I disagree but you could have said the same thing without the profanity.
Little from the Royals losing streak can be credited to bad decisions by management. David Glass gave the team probably the league’s softest starting rotation, and easily the worst bullpen. The highest-paid reliever, closer Mike MacDougal, is making $430k.
In baseball dollars that’s like working at Wal-Mart.
It’s sad what Glass has turned this team in to. It’s embarrassing to our city and to Ewing Kauffman’s legacy. We need to take back the Royals somehow - a hostile takeover. Anyone have $200 million sitting around?
So the Wal Mart Royals suck? I’m shocked since they have won so many games the last 10 years or so.
Hajkar: they have a special internet just for you and your delicate sensibilites:
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just stay on AOL pages and you’ll be safe from the scary profanity.
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David Glass has turned the Royals into an embarrasment for this city. It is even equally embarrasing that Jackson County residents voted to give this slickster so much money to him to add concessions and other useless features to the K… I agree with Johansen, there has got to be a way that KC can take back our baseball team from this horrible person!
Better yet, lets take that tax increase money and buy out the team from him!
We all agree - the Royals are worse than terrible. They are more than horrible. Their stink-o-meter lands on “craptacular”.
However, do any one you people remember the last time this baseball team was looking for an owner?
NOBODY WANTED THEM!!!!
David Glass was the only one that stepped up and bought the team. NOT ONE single local rich guy would take the gamble.
The Halls of Hallmark? No.
The Blochs of HR Block? No.
Not even Ray Lamar of Lamar’s Donuts would touch this team!
So what makes anyone think we could find another owner? Does someone have a person in mind that would ACTUALLY do it? (Note: Miles Prentiss does NOT count)
I’m not saying that the Royals’ organization doesn’t need to be reamed out with a wire brush - it definitely does. This team needs better management and better baseball business people.
However, a new owner really isn’t an option. I dislike “The Wal-Mart way” more than anyone, and I despise corporate greed, but should an owner have to spend his own personal money to keep a business afloat? Would Gary Forsee put his own money into Sprint to make sure they make a financial goal? No. Because a business needs to stand on its own. I think that the Royals can make money (or break even) and they should even be competitive, but changes need to be made.
Glass needs to make sure that every baseball dollar goes back into the business, and none of it goes into his pocket - he already has plenty.
But enough with the “lets find a new owner” crap… if we lose this owner, we probably won’t be allowed to have a team. (you did see that the Royals were called the WORST franchise in sports, right?)
AeroSquid:
If you can’t make your point without profanity you lack intellectual integrity. I am not offended by profanity as much as I see it as an indictment against the purveyors of such language which acts only as a detriment towards true civil discourse. Nonetheless, the Royals lose another game.
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the word ’shitty’ has certain nuances that ‘bad’ just can’t touch. it’s the english language, get over it.
I disagree, Matt. I can think of any number of alternatives that contain nuance beyond “bad”. In fact, used correctly, I suspect that I could wring more nuance out of a different choice of words without the vulgarity.
The biggest fish the Royals ever let go was John Schureholtz. Its been downhill ever since.
i guess some of us appreciate the sparing use of vulgarities of the oh so barbaric english language more than others.
anybody catch al roker at the k this morning on ‘today,’ it was uncomfortable for me to watch…
i saw that, it was painful. i also don’t think you can accurately describe the 2006 Royals without using vulgar language. the Royals don’t just suck… they fucking suck out loud. I’m thinking of putting up just such a billboard…
Sheeesh…. Its just a baseball team!
You know, in spite of all the people who dismissed Miles Prentiss, I honestly can’t believe that the team would be that much worse under his ownership than under Glass’. Prentiss as I recall submitted a higher bid than Glass, which was thrown out because Bud Selig felt that Prentiss would be unable to generate enough revenue to field a competitive ballclub (although he failed to back this up with any actual evidence). Generally, most of the bad press about Prentiss seemed to come from the commissioner’s office, which had an interest in keeping Glass in charge of the Royals since Glass supported Selig’s hard-line approach to labor negotiations with the players. For all I know, Prentiss may have been a loon, but I can’t imagine that he would have been more of a cheapskate or more incompetent than the Glass regime. Personally, I think that Selig gave Glass the franchise because KC losing 100+ games per year gives credibility to his b.s. argument that small market teams can’t compete (something he continually brings up when trying to install a salary cap in his negotiations with the player’s union). I honestly don’t believe that Glass is interested in fielding a competitive team at all, since he can put a continual bottom feeder out there and still make $20 million a year for himself from the revenue sharing/luxury tax that baseball imposes on the Yankees and other bigger-market teams.
Just listened to Royals blow a 6 run lead get a 2 run lead back then blow it to lose by 5 runs to the Detroit Tigers. Don’t they have anybody in AAA or AA that can pitch? They don’t seem to be that bad on offense or defense but pitching is horrible. They just stay with the same pathetic guys, can’t fire the owner, shouldn’t fire the manager. Fire the GM and the pitching staff.
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