Minda, I think when people criticize a team for throwing away money on lousy players, many of them aren’t doing it out of spite, but rather out of frustration. As someone who grew up as one of the world’s biggest Expos fans, I know too well how irritating it is for my team to make boneheaded decisions. If I’m KC grief for enriching Kyle Farnsworth’s agent, it’s only because I think the Royals can do a lot better, even on a limited payroll and with a below-average revenue stream. We’ve seen too many examples of small-revenue teams finding success in recent years to think otherwise.

Thank you, entire WORLD, for rubbing it in.