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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"David Glass, being former Walt-Mart CED, knows all about keeping costs low while still making a profit, and it sure doesn't mean putting the best products on the shelf."
— ESPN.COM
FACT OF THE DAY
David Glass is a member of the world retail half of fame for his work as CEO and president of Walmart.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What year did the Royals go to the World Series for the first time?
A: 1980
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THE MORNING BREW Royals owner cheap; inhibits success
As another Major League Baseball regular season winds down, most teams know where they stand as either pretenders, or contenders.
For my favorite team, the Kansas City Royals, they have been labeled as a pretender yet again.
After coming off an encouraging sweep of the first place Chicago White Sox over the weekend, the Royals are still 11 games out of first place, and looking to cap off yet another losing season, their ninth in a row.
So the question is why? Why have the Royals only had one winning season since 1995? Why have people under the age of 26 never seen the Royals in a playoff game? Most importantly, why aren't the Royals competitive anymore?
The answer is simple. The Royals can't compete because they don't have an owner that is willing to spend money.
By Andrew Ruszczyk
aruszczyk@kansan.com
Baseball is unlike most other sports in that there is no salary cap. This means that as long as a team is willing to spend money on high quality players, high quality players the team will get.
This is why year after year the Royals and their fans are sitting at home watching teams like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox compete for World Series rings, something the Royals haven't achieved since 1985.
The main problem is that David Glass, the Royals owner, is cheap.
In 2000, Glass bought the Royals for the minor cost of $96 million. Now the franchises estimated value is around $354 million, according to Forbes magazine.
But despite all the money that Glass is sitting on, he refuses to increase payroll and spend money to make his team competitive. No matter how much young talent the Royals may have, you have to have money to keep these players.
In the past, the Royals have not been able to keep their star players because they simply don't have the money to pay him.
Glass is also distant from Kansas City and the fanbase. With almost no media or fan interaction, he doesn't have to answer as to why the team has been this bad for this long under his watch.
In contrast, if you drive thirty minutes west on I-70 from Kaufmann Stadium to Livestrong
Sporting Park, you will find Sporting Kansas City, Kansas City's professional soccer franchise, is making headlines for unprecedented fan support and championship performances.
Sporting Kansas City is currently in first place in the Eastern conference, and they have also recently won the Lamar Hunt US Open cup.
The Kansas City based OnGoal LLC owns Sporting Kansas City. The ownership group, led by Robb Heineman, has built a world class soccer stadium that has attracted numerous sellout crowds for MLS and USA men's national team matches, and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final. It has also hosted several concert events.
Heineman's twitter account is full of fan and player interaction. He cares about the team because his
company is located right here in the city Sporting's fans live in. If he fails, he understands how much it can hurt the fans, unlike Glass, who has no connection to Kansas City other than the Royals.
Now I understand that the MLS and MLB are two totally different markets, with the MLB being far more of a cash cow than the MLS. But all I want is an owner who cares enough about the city and the fans to put a competitive product on the field, so that maybe once in my life I can witness the Royals where they use to be — as a contender.
This week in athletics
Edited by Luke Ranker
Wednesday
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Women's Volleyball
Northwestern State
4:30 p.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
Women's Soccer Georgia 5 p.m. Lawrence, Kan.
Saturday
Women's Volleyball
Tennessee-Martin
1:30 p.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
Sunday
Women's Volleyball
Arkansas
7 p.m.
Fayetteville, Ark.
Women's Soccer
UNLV
1 p.m.
Lawrence, Kan.
Monday
No Events Scheduled
Tuesday No Events Scheduled
Hochevar leads Royals to defeat Tampa Bay Rays
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Eric Hosmer's two-out single in the 10th inning drove in the only run in Kansas City's 1-0 Tuesday victory over Tampa Bay in a classic pitcher's duel between the Royals' Luke Hochevar and the Rays' David Price.
The run off Joel Peralta (1-5) was unearned after an error on Tampa Bay shortstop Ben Zobrist. Jeff Francour scored the run after his single preceding Zobrist's throwing error.
four hits.
Price and Hochevar both pitched eight innings, giving up a total of
Kelvin Herrera (1-1) got the win and Greg Holland pitched the 10th inning for his sixth save.
Hochevar, the first overall pick in the 2006 amateur draft, gave up one hit and struck out 10.
Price, the first overall draft pick in 2007, gave up three hits and struck out eight. It was the second time this month Price pitched eight shutout innings without getting a win to show for it.
The loss snapped the Rays' five game winning streak.
Through the first seven innings, the only player to get as far as second base was Luke Scott, who led off the Rays third with a double and advanced to third on a fly ball. It was the only hit off Hochevar.
The only other Ray to reach base in five innings was Matt Joyce, who walked and was picked first off base by catcher Salvador Perez.
The only Kansas City runner to reach second base against Price was Hosmer on a stolen base in the eighth inning.
Price, who gave up seven earned runs to the New York Mets in his most recent loss on June 13, has given up only 15 runs in 12 starts since. Those 12 starts include a franchise-record eight straight wins and a 1.56 ERA, dropping his major league-leading ERA to 2.28.
Hochevar shut out the Rays in Kansas City on June 25, but in his first three career starts at Tropicana Field he was 0-2 with an 11.20 ERA. In 10 starts since his shutout of the Rays he is 2-4.
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Kansas City Royals starting pitcher, Luke Hochevar, delivers to the Tampa Bay Rays during the second inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)
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