Why do people ignore the FACT......?

Question

that owners in baseball have money they REFUSE to spend on free agents and players in their organization that will become free agents?

Does anybody realize that Kansas City once had an outfield featuring Johnny Damon, Carlos Beltran and Jermaine Dye at the same time. Now I'm not saying they should've kept all 3 or even any if that was their idea. But they should've gotten some TOP prospects in return for all of them and including the revenue sharing they should be competing RIGHT NOW. DO NOT BY ANY MEANS THINK THEY ARE THE ONLY FRANCHISE TO HAVE PULLED THIS.

Thanks for such great information I honestly had no idea how much money the owner of Kansas City has, but this isn't supposed to bash only KC, I can come up with NUMEROUS transactions that have crippled teams such as Pittsburgh, Houston, Cincinatti, and SF just off the top of my head.

I think the person that suggested to me that I become a partial owner is missing my point. My point is that the owners have money they could spend and choose not to spend it, yet people blame owners of the Yankees, Red Sux, Cubs, Angels and Mets for spending the money they have. I'm not saying KC and such teams should spend all the money they have but they can afford to compete, especially with the additional money coming from revenue sharing. Also, did you know that teams are remodeling stadiums now instead of buying players?

Brett you missed my point as well. There are two workable strategies: pay for the players or develop. If a team can't afford to keep Beltran, Dye and Damon trade them at their peak for prospects that are cheap but will still allow a team to compete. When a team does neither they aren't making any sort of effort.

Your example with the Twins owner was good, however my point was for them to spend SOME not lose $150 million a year. If he has a billion dollars he's probably still making money from somewhere other than the Twins. But he cannot afford to lose both Hunter and Santana in consecutive years without gaining SOMETHING in return. I understand that the Yankees make it difficult for some teams, but not impossible. It makes me sick that owners choose not to spend money to compete, it shows they care nothing about the fans.

Answer 1

Royals owner David Glass is married to one of Sam Walton's daughters. He's got Wal-Mart money. Don't tell me the Royals can't compete. If Glass wanted to, he could have a cable-TV network blanketing the Plains, from the western edge of Cardinal territory in Columbia, Missouri to the eastern edge of Rockies territory in Western Kansas; from the southern edge of Twins territory in South Dakota to the northern edge of Rangers territory in Oklahoma City. It might not have as many people as the New York Tri-State Area or New England or Southern California, but it would be nearly as much area as the Braves would cover if TBS were regional instead of national.

Every owner could afford to buy a team; every owner can afford to pay for a contender. Some choose not to. And some choose to and fail (LA, Baltimore, Cubs). Anyone who says the Fill-in-the-blanks (not to be confused with the Phillies, who have tried) can't afford to contend is lying.

Answer 2

Your understanding of faith is not complete. Faith requires no physical proof. None that could be measured, examined or experimented with. Thus it does not lend itself to the scientific method. Not one bit of faith can be repeated thru any experiment in any lab. Yet this does not make it wrong. Science's inability to view or examine or otherwise experience something does not ultimately preclude that something from existing or being true. Science can only Truly say that the lack of evidence suggests that a higher or supreme being is an improbability not an impossibility. Being that I personally will not rule out a supreme being simply because of no proof, I do have some perspective on the topic of the many different beliefs out there. If God is all powerful and all knowing he can very likely never be described in terms that you and I can understand. I've discussed this before here on yahoo answers with some delight. It really boils down to how you define God's omnipotence. Truly knowing all in my mind is incredible. Being all knowing God would know everything, and I mean everything, down to the exact location of every quark or sub-atomic particle or bit of matter at any time or any place within all of existence at all times. This includes the past, present and future. Time and space itself would be a trivial little creation that would be simple in the Omnipotent eyes. The God who fits this description knew of this posting when time and space itself he hadn't created yet. Remember, he always knows everything, he is all-knowing and all powerful.And to compound this belief I would hasten to say that every soul he creates he knew long before that he was going to and what paths in life you will take. Even to the point of whether or not you'll be among the saved or not. How could the all-knowing not know this if he truly is all knowing. In respects to my opinion of the omnipotent, there is probability that nobody has religion right. No one faith has the facts nailed down. It is probable that when our end we reach we'll discover the whole of the matter is completely different than we had been taught by those who attempt to guide our spirituality. And who is to say that the afterlife is anything that we might suspect. Perhaps even after we die we may find that nothing is as we expected and perhaps nothing will be answered but yet more questions will arise.

Answer 3

The Twins owner is a billionaire if I am not mistaken. I think he should say "to hell with profit", take a quarter of a billion dollars, buy the best players money can buy and draw 20k fans a game and lose $150 mil a year, because he can afford it, right?

A company that pays no attention to profit will eventually fold from mis-management and those employees will lose their jobs.

Your argument solely stems from the fact that you are defending the "yankee" way.
We want to win, we want to win every year and to hell with equity.
Beltran was looking for a $17 mill a year payday, was he worth it, of course not.
He walked. In real life, Beltran would be making what, $30,000 a year? $50,000, but because he can hit a ball, he wants $17 mil a year while depending on x # of fans (of the $30k - $100k/year variety) paying for him to hit a ball.

If you are a parent and teach your children to win at all costs, then you are teaching them the current yankee way.

How about turning it around a bit.
"why do people ignore the fact that ANYONE could develop a farm system but some teams REFUSE to do so".
They spend all their money on free agents and not on scouts and minor league instructors that can develop a healthy crop of major league ready players that can step in for injured players, washed up veterans and those whose mental faculties go on vacation.

Steve, don't mean to pick on you, but it's a lot easier to develop a complaint when you already know what you are aiming for.
You want to justify the free spending on 'talent' which will ultimately increase revenue for players, the MLBPA and thus cause increases for companies that market through MLB, their retail chains and finally it hits us at concessions, gate and retail.

So, for those teams to compete with the likes of the Yankees, fans everywhere have to pay through many channels, simply because the Yankees can't draft and develop players.

Don't you think that's sad, if you weren't looking at it through pinstripes?

Answer 4

They are many owners of certain teams that could care less about the team or their fan base. All they care about is pocketing the money for themselves. But instead of blaming the owners those fans of those teams fans want to make the Yankees the scapegoats for their team's sad situation.

Answer 5

I agree with you. Instead fans want to blame teams such as the Yanks or Red Sox for being the reason their team sucks.

Answer 6

I blame expansion for diluting the pool of smart general manager candidates.

As for Twins owner Pohlad -- he got to BE a billionaire by being a tightwad, and now into his 90s he's not about to change.

Answer 7

It's very easy to tell other people how to spend their money, isn't it? If you believe in it so much, get some of your buddies together and chip in for a minority ownership in the Royals then pony up your own cash to get a big name free agent.

Answer 8

No One cares