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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Optics matter, they literally lost ticket sales over this IMO. The casual fan doesn't care about anything you just wrote there. If all the goodwill and momentum from last year wasn't already gone, it was the moment Price's agent said what he said. By June, it will be like 2015 never even happened.
They officially confirmed that the Jays aren't interested in using their considerable resources to field the best team possible. All the people that jumped on the bandwagon last year aren't going to be impressed when they hear that they couldn't even be bothered to try.
Hope Rogers enjoyed the $100m windfall, because it was likely a once in a generation scenario with the way they run the team.
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Do you think making an offer changes anything though? I'm not sure a fan would walk away content that they at least made an offer if they don't get the player. I think instead of complaining that there was no offer made, they would just complain that they should have offered more.
One thing worth pointing out that peole are also missing too that currently with the Canadian Dollar a payroll of 140 million US is the equivilant to 190 Million Canadian. To start last year the same 140 Million payroll would have been in the 160million dollar range. So I dont' agree that they arn't reinvesting that money becuase in order to jsut keep the payroll the same they have to reinvest a huge chunk of that "profit".
Rodgers isn't perfect, no corporate ownership is, and sure I would prefer a private owner who was more willing to lose money but who stepped up do that? They arn't the best owner but they are far from terrible IMO.