Not finding a way, or feeling the urgency, to speed up the results is the failure.
-maybe drafting more college pitchers early on would have worked:
Hochevar was a college pitcher drafted in 2006
-maybe trading a bunch of talented, but effectively blocked players for a AAA pitcher
Melky Cabrera wasn’t blocked, but Cain was. Royals traded Cabrera for a AAAA pitcher (Sanchez)
-maybe hiring scouts that have a history of successfully evaluating pitchers:
In 2008, Mike Arbuckle, the man responsible for drafting Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels and other players who helped form the nucleus of the Philadelphia Phillies’ 2008 world championship club, was hired as senior adviser to general manager Dayton Moore
-maybe upgrading the pitching coaches in the minors:
Rick Knapp was hired in September of 2011. If you don’t know him, he made his resume as the minor league pitching coordinator for the Twins, reinforcing the philosophies of Minnesota pitching coach Rick Anderson and management, before the Tigers hired him as their pitching coach after the 2008 season.

Glass had the Royals at their lowest payroll in 10 years last year, and publicly set a limit on payroll this year which virtually guaranteed we would not be able to pick up a quality starter in the free agent market, despite the entire world knowing we needed at least one, and having a bump in revenue this year due to increased season ticket sales. (A combination of the all star game and some excitement over last years young guys) We were left with resigning our own players and maintaining the status quo. But you keep drinking the Glass Kool Aid, Nick.

I would not be so sure that this year’s attendance will beat last year’s though, despite the season ticket bump. For one thing, last year’s attendance was very back loaded, as a lot of single game tickets were sold fro the buzz from prospect arrivals. This year, it may well be front loaded, as many casual fans have already put the Royals out of their mind after the losing streak. (and Casual fans drive the single game ticket sales) Last year’s weekday series against the Yankees got only 200 less per game than this year’s weekend series. The other thing is secondary ticket sales (Stub hub and the like) have more availability this year due to many of the season tickets being bought with getting all star tickets as the reason behind getting those tickets. They will get cheaper (and already are) as the season goes along, and many more fans will find their single game seats there, which adds nothing to the paid attendance, just different people sitting in seats that were already sold.

What is Glass doing? I would say that he is paying for a team right now that has a lot of promise and providing us with some affordable entertainment. One of the games that my girlfriend and I went to this year we spent $30 on tickets and $10 to park. For that $40 we got to watch a major league baseball game, got two jerseys, got a free buffet from Harrah’s (on the back of the parking pass), and a free taco. That seems like a pretty good deal to me. Go check out how much Yankees or Red Sox tickets are. You would spend twice as much to go see their games.

Everyone is bashing the starting pitching and rightfully so, but overall we have a very promising team. We have some guys who should produce for years to come that are under team control (Gordon, Moustakas, Escobar, Hosmer, Butler, Perez, Duffy, and a lot of bullpen arms). We need some starting pitching, and probably another outfielder to take over for Frenchy. Hopefully Myers will be that guy and hopefully we get a little bit of help from the minors for our starting rotation. Other than that, stop complaining about Glass and go out the K and watch some games this summer. Glass has shown that if he gets the revenue, he will invest it in the team. Lets help fund our offseason signing of a true #1 starter for our rotation.

Stockholm Syndrome.

Continue to employ Dayton Moore for one.

That will happen when the media come to the All-Star game this summer.

No, it will be magnifyed when they are here. It’s been happening for a long, long time.