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Originally Posted by ChuckElias
And while you question this as shooting for "less than the best you can do", you pointedly ignored my comments about the Devil Rays and Royals, who would love to win a World Series, but have almost no chance of doing so.
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And why is that? Simply because the TB & Royals ownership are not willing to invest billions (yes BILLIONS) of dollars to make it more likely that their team will win the WS. To the NY ownership winning the WS equates directly in additional revenue, it's that simple. Obviously the Royal ownership has decided the investment needed to make a WS win more likely is not worth it. It's not their strategy. I doubt they would LOVE to win the WS because they don't INVEST in it. In fact, if they DID win the WS they would clean house within a couple of years because they could not support the salary structure to keep the winning team.
Let's face it, these people took a hell of a lot of money to come play in NY for this particular owner. I'm quite sure none of them have a line in their contract that says "Just do your best, it doesn't matter how we finish" in their contract. Their performance after mid-way thru game 2 was - in very real terms - a sad failure.