The new signings in perspective. It's a good thing.

Great thoughts on the flurry of signings from "JQ". Remember, Bale is no scrub either, thats a big money signing as well. Royals Review will be posting a full recap of the moves this weekend. Bale stats here.

So, a lot of big signings this week.  I see a lot of people divided about the  recent activity.  

(rubbing our hands together) What if we overpaid?'  

When that thought enters your mind just reply to it like this.  

"Who cares.  It's not my money.  It's David Glass' money.  And David Glass is kinda a jackass who has made all of us Royals fans suffer quite a bit over the last four years.  He doesn't even come to many games and lives in Arkansas.  Damn, he owes us."

With the revenue sharing money now stabilized for another five years and the extra income from the new television deal, plus all the free upgrades to the stadium paid for by tax dollars, there really is no reason Glass can't be feeding the Royals a payroll in the area of $70-$80M for the next five years.  The Royals have an inexpensive core right now and the salaries of the young guys will not really start to escalate the payroll until 2008.

Gilgamesh, or any other tier two starter, was going to cost about $10M/per.  That is the new going rate, and that rate will probably never go down.  This is what it costs to hire a decent free agent starting pitcher.  The Royals needed a solid starter (well, in truth they needed a few) and this is what it was going to cost.  Glass paid it.  We'll have a better team next year.  I hope Glass pays for more solid players.  I want to see the Royals not suck for the first time in a long while and if it costs David Glass some money then good.  He is sorta evil and has not treated us fans well for years.  

Give me a team to both love and have hopes for!  Like a father loves his crippled child, I'd love the Royals no matter how badly they play, but wouldn't it be nice to see that lame child walk again! The damnest part of it all is that Papa Glass could have afforded his surgery years ago and is only now finally willing to take care of his responsibility.

Remember.  Glass got his money from Walmart.  It should have been seized on principle as ill gotten years ago and given to a worthy charity ... like, I don't know, maybe the Royals.  These signings may not have been the absolute best way to build the team, but this demonstration of serious financial support lent to an effort to build a competitive team has been a long time in coming.