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Originally Posted by KCTitus
Wow... a full decade of the 'youth movement'. I can remember before I left KC hearing Herk talking about how, now, they were going in a new direction called the youth movement. That was 1994.
I guess 'youth movement' is a euphymism for acting as a triple A club in the major leagues.
That's just sad, relegate the club or fold it.
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You have to remember the team had no official owner at the time, and they let things toil for years until they finally let Glass have the team. Glass was Kauffman's hand picked successor... I had my doubts at first but the 2003 season proved a lot to me, he proved he is more than willing to spend money in order to improve the team and make a bunch of trade deadline acquistions. Then he spent money to bring in some more quality veterans to try and put us over the top quickly, but at the same time he is sticking with the plan of going through this youth movement. The free agent moves blew up in his face, but it wasn't through lack of trying. Now we're building the farm system better than it's been built in a long time, and we're not going to abandon it like we did several times in the 90's. Of course if you'd actually followed the team you'd know that as opposed to just sounding like the idiot that calls into sports radio that you abhor so much...
