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Originally Posted by Nightfyre
I have a little more faith in Moore than that. Glass is the one we should all be butchering. Seriously a 70 million payroll after a huge increase in shared revenue and "saving" over the last three years? When you have a young team that could make a legitimate push over the next five years? You're going to squander a golden opportunity like this? **** you Glass.
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Glass has a couple things going against him that a lot of fans don't take into account. First, he is one of the poorest owners in the majors. He's not a multi-billionaire, he's super-rich by our standards but in baseball he barely gets in the door. Second, we're stuck with a horrible TV contract where if we were negotiating it now we'd get easily twice more than we're getting now if not more than that. Cinci is a smaller market and they are rolling in dough from their new deal. Our deal looked good at the time, but we're now stuck in a miserable deal that runs through the end of the F'ing decade.
Thing thats going for Glass that cancels all of that and therefore makes 70 unacceptable: we had a tiny payroll for a long time. The team was profitable, and those profits should have been banked for the day when they'd be needed. At least bridge us to the new national Fox TV contract in 2014 and to the time when the Royals can get fair market on their TV deal.