KC Royals Owner "We will be competitive this year"

[MicroBob]

I think I quit around there. I really can't remember. It was really freaking hard and the novelty had worn off by about day 6 or 7 or so after almost 100k every day.

[MicroBob]

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the Royals will show improvement, but not a lot in the win/loss category.

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you are forgetting the all-important Gil Meche Factor!!!!

Little doubt in my mind that he single-handedly lead them to the W.S.

[moorobot]

Their are four teams in the AL Central who have a 10% or better chance of winning 90 games next year. None of them play half of there games in Kansas City.

They have a decent line-up, but the AL central had three absurdly good teams last year, they have awful pitching, and the Indians spent a decent ammount of cash this offseason.

[bluef0x]

I think the owner meant competing against the Kansas City Penguins for fans, not competing for wins. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[mattsey9]

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Greg Gagne, former Royals SS extraordinaire, lives about 2 miles from my parents's house. He's got a pretty sweet glove statue at the head of his driveway.

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Wasn't that Buddy Biancalana? Greg Gagne played for Minn?

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Reminds me of a Royals commercial one season: "If you can't be a Royal, Biancalana."

[sandycove]

As a Kansas City major league baseball fan since the first opening day of the ATHLETICS (and I was there), there is no hope whatsoever.

But it's good thing to be hopeful.

Without regard to the present ownership's pocketbook or abilities, a small-market team is always playing with a short stack.

It's worth noting that late Royals owner Ewing Kauffman said, privately, that, had he anticipated the direction of big league sport finance, he would have invested his good fortune in some other community project. The turning point for him was sometime around the Royal's late-career flirtation with Pete Rose.