I haven't given up all hope on a playoff appearance, but I would dump my life savings on tickets at the K if they ever did make it. I'm afraid if they do make it, they may never make it back.

The Dodgers have 5 players who average more than $20 million a year.

There are plenty of examples over the last 6-7 years of teams spending less than the Royals and making the playoffs. Most people just don't realize it.

There were three teams in the playoffs that spent less than the Royals, and Cleveland was ranked one spot ahead of KC in total payroll. The Royals have spent more in recent years than teams like the A's and Rays who always seem to be successful. The A's almost won 100 games last year. Money's not the only issue.

Although with these huge differences in TV money now... we'll see where it stands in another 7-8 years.

Your right TK. The Royals main problem is their draft picks underperform.
Posted via Mobile Device

Kershaw and Greinke will be making 55+. Jeremy Guthrie restructures so we can go 90 million this year if need be. LMAO

Baseball is cheap to attend a game. You want to sit behind the dugout, thats not cheap. But, you want to take the family and sit in the upper deck at a Royals game, $10 on some days.

It's the cable contracts that are paying for these huge salaries, not ticket sales. You can't sell $2 BILLION worth of tickets.

Ya'll know something bad is going to happen to him... Bound to, right?

Entitled to you opinion but you are wrong. Someone with the money said, yeah he's worth $30 million a year. When you have a $2 BILLION cable TV contract you can afford a $250 million payroll.

The Cardinals beat him 3 times last year. Cardinal kryptonite. :rolleyes:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>People upset about giant player contracts: You’d rather the owners keep that money? TV cash has changed the scale. That’s business.</p>&mdash; Jesse Spector (@jessespector) <a href="https://twitter.com/jessespector/statuses/423644063863414784">January 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Royals will never have a chance in this kind of league...

Wow.

I walked away from baseball as a player and fan in 1994.

It's to the point now that it's a clean flush. Pretty much everyone that was a player when I was a kid is long gone and are getting into the HOF now and I haven't even heard of this guy that's gonna be the highest paid player in the sports history.

It's surreal.

They can. They just can't make any mistakes. They need young players who get called up to immediately be stars so they can get 5 good years out of them. They have to be able to sign guys that outperform their contracts and be able to replace the good ones who leave to get the $15M/year+ they aren't ever going to be able to pay. Not impossible, but really difficult. They just have to beat 4 other teams to win the division. Then get a little lucky or have a few great pitchers.

And yet, I doubt they win the division this year. Giants or dbacks.

Dbacks maybe, Giants have no more pitching. I dont know what the **** happened to Lincicum. I dont know if he was Juicing or what, but he's lost about 5-7 mph of his fastball and he's not even 30 years old yet. I shouldnt say they dont have any pitching, its just not as good as their WS years.

Dbacks will be competitive though. Dodgers took the division and had the most injuries i ever seen. I guess thats what the big bank roll does. Crazy to think they were bankrupt a few years ago. Thank god for Stan Kasten and his 5billion net worth. He may be worth 7B not too sure

Crazy a** money.