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Next he'll say he didn't make any money when he sold the parking garages in downtown St. Louis.
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06-09-2020, 02:32 PM | #452 | |
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06-09-2020, 03:09 PM | #453 |
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Eat so many dicks, Bill DeWitt. So many, many dicks. Dude got a major league team for free, watched it gain $2 Billion in franchise value through no doing of his own (thanks again, TIVO and Tony LaRussa), has averaged about $50 million/season in operating profits for the last decade (based on what he's actually willing to divulge) and has watched as MLB revenue has grown far faster than player salaries. And he has the unbelievable hubris to say that baseball just isn't that profitable. Like he should've taken the $120 million that he immediately recouped by selling parking garages and just shoved it into savings bonds instead. What a massive prick. Stingy bastard won't bail out his dipshit GM for his neverending streak of stupid FA acquisitions and unnecessary contract extensions because he's gotten used to printing money but he'll cry poor when it comes to actually playing baseball. So very done with Bill DeWitt.
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06-09-2020, 03:36 PM | #454 | |
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I love baseball. I live it and bleed it, as everyone here knows. But **** these owners with their bullshit. I'd rather not see a season than see the players capitulate and take deals that protect the profit margins of the owners while shuffling all the costs to the players. Thankfully John Sherman has taken good care of his minor league guys and his organization, so at least my team's owner isn't being an unmitigated prick.
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06-09-2020, 03:38 PM | #455 |
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Ewing Kauffman said the same thing. If you ever read his biography, he never made much money on the Royals.
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06-09-2020, 03:46 PM | #456 | |
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That was a different era, before the absolute explosion of media rights and before revenue sharing.
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06-09-2020, 03:53 PM | #457 | |
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Re: number of games... **** the owners. If they can't pay full pro rated salaries **** them. They can't reap the benefits in the good years then not take the risk in the bad year.
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And I'm floored how many owners took the route of not paying the (relative) miniscule salaries of the minor league guys over the terrible PR of doing it.
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06-09-2020, 06:18 PM | #460 |
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Diamondbacks owner pulled the same bullshit. These bunch of chuckle ****s better get this season underway ASAP and put this nightmare PR behind them. **** around too much and people that just have cable for their team will say **** it and cut the cord en masse
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06-09-2020, 06:54 PM | #461 |
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Yeah, we're not getting baseball this season.
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06-09-2020, 08:44 PM | #465 |
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