Tag «sports ownership»

The Royals Won Eight Straight. They’re Still 16 Games Under .500.

Eight straight wins, capped off by an 11-7 sweep-clincher over Detroit this weekend. For a few days, Kauffman Stadium felt like 2024 again, back before this team apparently forgot how to win a baseball game for four straight months. Here’s the number that doesn’t make the highlight package: 58-74. That’s the record after the streak, …

Enjoy the Game, Question the Invoice

Somebody buys a sports team, and within a few years the city is somehow paying for their stadium. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just how the math works out almost every time. A guy worth a few billion dollars buys an NFL or NBA franchise, then turns around and tells the local government that …