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Old 11-30-2013, 07:49 AM   #59
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Your views are overly simplistic.

Kansas City and the Royals ****ed up when they renovated the K. A downtown stadium should have been built, period. If they had, there would be far more money for the club because of fan support.
Stadiums have proven to not be a cure for the financial woes of teams.
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I'm sorry, but this isn't the 1980's. People have HDTV's and the Royals have a shit TV contract. KC is so spread out that the novelty of going to 80 games a year, without public transportation, wears off quickly for people living in JoCo or Blue Springs or Liberty, etc..
Same issue down here in Florida. People have too much other things to do. They make excuses that they won't spend 30 minutes to drive to the stadium. etc.
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The Royals are not the Cardinals. Or the Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers or Giants.
They were at one time and could be again.
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