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Originally Posted by siberian khatru
Bob Dutton @Royals_Report
One reason #Royals are willing to trade Myers is they believe Jorge Bonifacio is pretty good. At least two years away, though.
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And Frenchy rejoices. So do the Royals. Do you have any idea how much money they dumped into the "Frenchy Quarter" campaign?
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Originally Posted by alnorth
Regarding local TV, we get about $20MM/year from Fox Sports KC through the end of the decade.
The Cincinnati Reds, baseball's smallest market, figure to get, at worst, $50MM/year with their new deal, and maybe more if they have more than 1 bidder.
We signed our local TV deal at the absolute worst possible time, RIGHT before the value of sports on TV exploded. |
Pretty shrewd business men, those Glass boys. I wonder what their personal kickbacks are?
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Originally Posted by alnorth
Found this story from Stark. They estimate that the Royals probably get roughly $35MM from the revenue sharing component. He also notes that every single team must pay MLB about $10MM for pensions and other things.
I'm coming up with roughly $115MM before we pay anybody. Throw away $10MM, then subtract another $10MM for the draft and international bonus pools, and we're at $95MM. Between coaches, front office, scouts, rent to Jackson County, utilities, Arizona, debt service, whatever we have to pay for our share of stadium maintenance and upgrades, minor leagues, etc the Royals seem to be saying all of that stuff costs about $25MM before we get to the 40-man roster.
If that were true, I'd expect our 40-man breakeven to be about $95MM in 2014, and somewhere north of $100MM after 2016. |
Obviously you're not factoring in what Glass considers to be acceptable profit margin numbers. Sure, he could spend 100+ mil on a roster, but his yearly profits would plummet from a guaranteed 20+ mil to 5 to 10 million. Unacceptable!
Basically imo, and this is brand new information, David Glass is one cheap, greedy ****.