I, too, find it sort of refreshing that a former player has the balls to rip the owner. Mr. Tufts obviously had a lot of pride in being a Royal, because that used to mean so much more back then than it does now. I applaud his effort to shame the current owner.

One of the comments about that article said a mouthful – it shouldn’t take a bunch of meetings for Glass to figure out what’s gone wrong. Should be painfully obvious to anyone who has been paying attention at all for the last 15 years. That’s why I think the recent Glass comments are simply more PR bullshit designed to placate the masses. An ill-fated PR move, no doubt.

His record as a pitcher is even worse than Glass as an owner.

It implies that the Groundhog is going to leave his hole in August. What a momentous occasion for us all.

P.S. Bob was 2-0

Kansas Citians/Royals Fans deserve better. My youngest son is 29 and he can’t even remember when the Royals were a competive team. Yet there he is every spring full of hope that this year will be different.

When the Royals won the Series in ‘85, they had the best farm system in the majors. Since then, someone in the organization decided that the farm system just wasn’t important and let it slide into the abyss. KC has been trying to go with old, burnt out free agents ever since. Glass is just the latest incompetent owner to try his hand with KC. They tried the youth movement in the late 90’s and earlier this decade. However, each time a talented player has come up, he has been promptly traded because of money. Developing good talent does you no good if you don’t even try to keep them around. I have lately counted no few than a dozen star players around the league that got their start in KC before being traded. Where would the Royals be today if even half of those stars were still there. I’m willing to bet that there wouldn’t be an empty seat in Royals Stadium, and the franchise would still be able to make a profit by being super competative.