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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
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.
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Stadiums have proven to not be a cure for the financial woes of teams.
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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
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..
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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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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The Royals are not the Cardinals. Or the Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers or Giants.
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They were at one time and could be again.