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“Do me a favor,” says Mike Sweeney, the one All-Star who stayed. “Take a look at all the players we had here through the years. Let’s say we had kept them all. What would the payroll be? Will you figure that out for me?”
Absolutely: For you, Mike.
The payroll this year, according to the USA Today Salary Database, would be about $75 million. That’s if the Royals kept everyone.
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From Poz's article.
The real truth is if the Royals had the stadium downtown - even as it is now with viable businesses around it, bars, & young people living down there, it would greatly improve. Working people could goto a number of day games.
I think with the reality of a new ballpark downtown it would mean higher ticket prices and people seem to bitch about that, but if you want a winner you have to pay for one. Corprate tickets would def. go up if the location was better. Arrowhead is where it should be b/c its setup for tailgating and an 8 game schedule. For 82 games, a Wrigley, St Louis setup is so much better.
If you told me they could be a replica of the K downtown by the Sprint Center and the new entertainment district and the only two differences would be wider concourses and more bathrooms I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Anyone else hear that the new entertainment district just approved open containers- you can move from bar to bar with booze!