Someone locally needs to do this to David Glass

It seems Dan Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins, is mighty upset with a local writer--Dave McKenna of the Washington City Paper-- for a tough article written last November which rather savaged Mr. Snyder's leadership of the team.  Now, Mr. Snyder is so upset, he's trying to get the reporter fired or sue the paper:

The City Paper published McKenna's "Cranky Redskins Fans Guide to Dan Snyder" in November. It was an encyclopedic A-Z look at Snyder's "many failings" and featured a picture of him with penciled on devil horns and goatee. McKenna chronicled most of Snyder's missteps, most of which already were on the public record. This piece wasn't reporting as much as it was collecting.

What's funny about it, too, besides the article (which, maybe you should check out as it really is good, even if you're not a huge Redskins fan) is that now even more people, exponentially, will be reading this article about Mr. Snyder, since he's going ballistic.

Which brings me to this idea:  wouldn't it be nice if we had a local writer who had as much guts and creativity as this Dave McKenna so they'd take on David Glass and his ownership and "leadership", such as it is, of our Kansas City Royals. 

Wouldn't that be nice?

I mean, the guy--Mr. Glass--is ranked as the third worst owner in Major League Baseball by Sports illustrated.  (Again, see link below).  From their article:

During Glass' 16 years, the Royals have averaged 96 losses. More than that, the former Wal-Mart exec is viewed by many as a stoolpigeon for Major League Baseball, open to suggestions from the league office as to how much to bid for free agents and, most prominently, being one of the loudest voices in opposing the players' union during the 1994 strike. In the meantime, he has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the revenue-sharing system, yet hasn't spent much of those funds in the free-agent market. That could turn around this year, with a franchise record $70.5 million payroll. Still, while the Royals probably won't lose 100 games for the fifth time under Glass, they likely won't break their 24-year playoff drought, either.

The Royals, under his ownership, have done zero when it comes to even getting remotely close to a penant race at the end of the season.  I've written here before how he seems to run it like the company he comes from--Wal-Mart--in that he sucks all the profit out but only wants to operate it on a "lowest cost" basis, with little desire for or emphasis on winning.

Add to it that Mr. Glass puts a gun to the city's head for millions of dollars in tax money so we can fix up his stadium so he can make even more money and it just makes for a really bitter taste in one's mouth.

And think about it, besides maybe pushing the team's owners to do and be better, it'd be a great read, it'd be fun, it would likely do great things for readership down at the Star--and God knows they need that desperately--and finally, if it didn't get the Royals to improve, at least we could have some fun with it until, one day, God willing, the team improves.  It's a total win, all around.

Sure, it's freezing cold and bitter out now but Springtime and baseball are right around the corner.

I'm convinced there are far too many Royals fans--and taxpayers--who think like I do, that Mr. Glass has gotten off far too easily on all this for far too long.

Please, Kansas City Star, get someone on this as soon as possible.  If we can't have a better team, at least give us a good belly laugh.  If we can't have the entertainment we want out at the ballpark, give it to us in our newspaper.  It's a distant second but we'll take it.

Links:  http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Dan-Snyder-is-trying-to-get-a-newspaper-reporter?urn=nfl-315778
http://mirror.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40063/the-cranky-redskins-fans-guide-to-dan-snyder.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/05/08/mlb.owners/index.html