Management Death Watch, Glass House Gang Edition
The Glass House Gang has a new General Manager. Don't get too excited, Royals fan. Dayton Moore certainly has some strong qualifications, having been Assistant GM to John Schuerholz in Atlanta since 1994. It can be reasonably assumed that he's formed some good ideas about how a winning franchise is run.
The problem is that the old GM is gone, but the owner remains. As long as David "You and I have different definitions of child labor" Glass and his halfwit sons still control the franchise, there is little chance that the Royals will be anything other than the modern incarnation of the St. Louis Browns.
Glass became Chairman of the Board of the Royals on September 23, 1993. By an amazing coincidence, the next season, 1994, was the last time the Royals posted a winning record. By another amazing coincidence, the Royals were sold to Glass on April 18, 2000, with the sale approved by a Board of Directors including Glass and Glass appointees. Perhaps inadvertantly, the board overlooked a bid by a different ownership group which was $24 million higher than Glass' offer. I know this will be hard to believe, but the Commissioners' Office took no action on this. Of course, there is absolutely no chance that Baron Budhausen was rewarding Glass for his unyielding role as one of the worst labor hawks during the 1994 strike.
The whole situation in Kansas City is rotten to the core. But fear not, Royals fan. Bud Selig and David (Gl)ass have a plan to restore your franchise to its former glory. And all it will cost you is a shiny new renovation of Royals Stadium (and Arrowhead Stadium) paid for by your tax dollars. Please, join the fight to help the cruelly oppressed David (Gl)ass. You'll be glad you did.
The problem is that the old GM is gone, but the owner remains. As long as David "You and I have different definitions of child labor" Glass and his halfwit sons still control the franchise, there is little chance that the Royals will be anything other than the modern incarnation of the St. Louis Browns.
Glass became Chairman of the Board of the Royals on September 23, 1993. By an amazing coincidence, the next season, 1994, was the last time the Royals posted a winning record. By another amazing coincidence, the Royals were sold to Glass on April 18, 2000, with the sale approved by a Board of Directors including Glass and Glass appointees. Perhaps inadvertantly, the board overlooked a bid by a different ownership group which was $24 million higher than Glass' offer. I know this will be hard to believe, but the Commissioners' Office took no action on this. Of course, there is absolutely no chance that Baron Budhausen was rewarding Glass for his unyielding role as one of the worst labor hawks during the 1994 strike.
The whole situation in Kansas City is rotten to the core. But fear not, Royals fan. Bud Selig and David (Gl)ass have a plan to restore your franchise to its former glory. And all it will cost you is a shiny new renovation of Royals Stadium (and Arrowhead Stadium) paid for by your tax dollars. Please, join the fight to help the cruelly oppressed David (Gl)ass. You'll be glad you did.
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