My pick is the ownership of the Pirates. It's a disgrace what they have done to this once proud franchise.
2007-12-05 01:58:44 · 11 answers · asked by Scooter_loves_his_dad 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
You can put a few teams up there. My pick is my home town Twins owner, Carl Pohlad. The dude is twice as rich as Steinbrenner and spends about a quarter of what the Yanks do. Too cheap to re-sign Big Papi for the million it would have took, Torri Hunter, and soon to be Santana and Nathan.
If you own a team, you should be in it to win a championship not just make money for your greedy rich self.
2007-12-05 02:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pirates is a good answer, and I would put Baltimore in there as well. Tampa, it pains me to say, never really had much to "ruin"--besides, our new owner is MUCH better than the old one. KC seems like they could be on the upswing to me, so I don't think they are completely ruined. The Yankees is a ridiculous answer--how can a team be "ruined" if it makes the playoffs every year?
2007-12-05 14:36:37 · answer #2 · answered by jmanj78 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steinbrenner after he got senile. Hard to say Steinbrenner overall caue the yanks of the 70s were magical, and that aura returned from '96-'01, yes I'm including the dramatic loss to the D-Backs as magical. But then "King George" stepped in and said get Giambi, gave Tino the Boot after a career year, he said trade for Vazquez, then Randy Johnson came available a year later and said Trade Vazquez for Johnson. I dont know if Cashman started putting sedatives in his metamucil or what but now that cashman is in control of player movement again (granted Hank and Hal are breathing down his neck) the Yankees will return to being the winningest franchise and doing it with their own talent.
2007-12-05 11:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by coopello 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
David Glass, KC Royals.
Biggest failing (and there are many): poor hires in the front office, coupled with intractable tenacity in sticking with those poor hires (and bringing home predictably poor results, season after season) until the evidence for firing and replacement becomes overwhelming. And then repeating it.
KC's last three GMs have been strong evidence that expansion has watered down the pool of smart baseball executives.
Although, today, only two of the 30 GMs are former players (Beane and Williams), so the times they are a'changin'.
2007-12-05 11:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Pirates are up there as well as Peter Angelos of the Orioles.
2007-12-05 10:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by Andy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Marge Schott with the Reds. Post 1990 of course. Wow... that lady was witch.
2007-12-05 11:55:58 · answer #6 · answered by Reduviidae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tampa Bay
2007-12-05 10:05:01 · answer #7 · answered by Crowdpleaser 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Peter Angelos. He needs to sell.
2007-12-05 10:06:30 · answer #8 · answered by mrguitarman2 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to go with Steinbrenner. They are paying out rediculous amounts of money, they've got the biggest payroll in MLB (by far), and it is only getting bigger. The problem with this is that every few years a salary cap is discussed for MLB, with the current payroll they have, they'd be stuggling to get their payroll down for years, to the benefit of everyone else.
2007-12-05 10:17:32 · answer #9 · answered by Kyle H 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I agree with Pittsburgh. This seems sadly accurate:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50814
2007-12-05 10:07:16 · answer #10 · answered by The Camel 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋