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Originally Posted by tmw4h5
Again, this team was able to sustain a payroll of $125m this year after last year's performance.
This year, we averaged 9,000 more people PER game. At $29.76 for the average ticket price x 9,000 x 81 home games. That's $21,695,040 extra.
We also had 8 playoff games which brought in something along the lines of $4.9m per game . Basically $40m extra from the playoffs in addition to the nearly $22m from the regular season. Where the **** is this money supposed to go? Hosmer WILL NOT sign in KC. Do you want to give a 31 year old Cain money? What about Moustakas? Do you want to pay $20m/year for a closer like Wade Davis?
This team could easily operate at a payroll of $160m for the foreseeable future, with or without a new TV contract.
The more that you people convince yourself that this team needs to operate at $120m/year, the more David Glass gets to jerk off onto piles of your money.
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I don't get why people immediately give up on signing Hos. You can't make the argument that we're making more money then say we can't have a chance to re-sign Hosmer. Which is it? I agree it may not happen... but why couldn't it. You want to give Gordon $20 million a year, but you don't want to give Hosmer $20-25?