9-News: 38.096 – Finances Keep Kids On the Farm

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9-News: 38.096 – Finances Keep Kids On the Farm

Post by RonCo » Thu May 16, 2019 11:03 am

Despite the Nine leading the Heartland Division by a wide margin, fans have been having a love/hate relationship with the club—loving the results, hating that fact that top prospect Dong-po Thum, and a few others have not yet made their appearance. Several fans, including many in the local alliance of super-fans, have bene holding vigils and protests, picketing the team’s ticket office and taking out ads in local news outlets. Until recently, the team has always provided assurances that these players would be up by September—and that the club was focusing on development rather than service time.

News comes today, however, that despite the calendar moving to the month where clubs can expand their roster to 40 players, the team will not be taking those actions as promised.

“We would love to bring some of these kids up,” said beleaguered assistant GM Phillip Watson, “but the league is very clear on the fact that we can’t exceed the salary cap in any way, and as everyone can see we’ve been quite liberal in spending our money to provide our fans the best possible product we can.” Watson noted big dollar contracts given to Alfredo Salazar, and trades that brought major league arms like Rodrigo Lugo and Elwood Blues to the team at the expense of $10M to the cap. Right now the club has only $230K of cap space to play with, and bringing even one prospect up would exceed that number.

ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO PAY FINES

Watson explained that the team’s original assurances that fans would see Thum and others was at least partially predicated on the YS9 front office’s erroneous reading of the rules. “We thought we could exceed the cap as long as we were willing to pay the league a fine,” Watson said. “But obviously that was wrong.” Watson would not reveal the source of the error, but noted that the executive office had taken steps to hold the guilty party accountable. “You can trust me on that,” Watson said in a clipped voice.

Bottom line is that the team that has won 86 games at the time of this writing is the team that the fans will see through September. “We’re living by the idea that we’re dancing with the guys who brought us here,” Watson said.

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Watson was asked about News that the Yellow Springs City prosecutor’s office was now moving to indict him for laundering money to support his then-girlfriend’s bakery, but his response was a terse “no comment.”
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Re: 9-News: 38.096 – Finances Keep Kids On the Farm

Post by HoosierVic » Thu May 16, 2019 1:04 pm

Wow - they picket and hold vigils when you’re in first by double digits - what would they do if you were in the second division? Launch scuds?

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Re: 9-News: 38.096 – Finances Keep Kids On the Farm

Post by RonCo » Thu May 16, 2019 1:15 pm

Yellow Springs fans have forgotten how it feels to be a cellar dwelling group. Or maybe the problem is they do.
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