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I just don't see money as the issue. Money will make it easier, cover up mistakes but no guarantees.
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Teach the same thing in low A that you teach at the Big Show. The Royals can defintely use the same approach the Cardinals have used. It's doable for the royals.
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2011 WS Champs 2012 one win from a WS 2013 two wins from a WS championship Best core group of players in the next 5 years according to Baseball prospectus. It's not Roids, really, thats the reason? It's a template for the Royals to follow.
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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. 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. People that act as if there's a better qualified candidate just hanging around somewhere to deal with the Glass family, revenue issues, the farm system and the trials and tribulations of building a team, on a small budget, are smoking opium. The Royals are not the Cardinals. Or the Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers or Giants. |
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They would have had a small temporary bump due to the "new park smell", but then they would have settled in at roughly what they always drew. Perhaps (or probably) even LESS long-term because it would be a LOT less convenient to go to games, and no one wants to F'ing go downtown.
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That said, given a choice, I'd much rather have a ton of dining and drinking options within walking distance (and public transportation as Dane said), than the other (and I LOVE the 'K'). While I called out San Diego to defend your statement - it all boils down to winning. Win, and the people will come. Win, AND you have dining and drinking options and public transportation - and they will come more often.
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When given the opportunity, the Royals should have chosen a more centralized location for their stadium. Not only would they have benefited from easier access from Kansans but from locals living and working downtown. It would have given people an excuse to go downtown, which in turn would have help revitalize downtown. |
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I think there would be fewer fans, and less money long term with a downtown stadium, and I don't give a damn about revitalizing KC at the expense of the Royals.
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When public transit exists, it adds so many different options as to where you park, how close you park, etc. etc. Not to mention, the hundreds, if not thousands, who can drink....hop on a trolley for the game...drink.....hop on a trolley home.....and not put people's lives at risk. When I was in KC for the raiders game, I literally ran to my car to get a jump on what was surely highways full of inebriated drivers. That's not to say it cant happen in a downtown stadium setting......but at least you got options if mass transit is done right.
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I personally like where the K and Arrowhead is located at, because other than trying to get in and out is a pain at times (this is more of a parking Nazi/stadium layout issue), I like it that it's close to I-70 or I-435. I just wish the Chiefs/Royals/Jackson County would had made some improvements on getting in/out from the stadium more manageable. But on the other hand, I been through worse. I went to the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona last year, it took me a hour and a 1/2 to get out of the ****ing parking lot. That was poorly managed.
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