Royals Owner David Glass said that there is "not a chance" he will sell the team now that it has won the World Series. Glass: "My whole family, we're all sort of baseball junkies. My goal in life when I was a kid was to be a major-league baseball player, and I didn't have the talent to do that. This is the next best thing, to do it this way. Dan (Glass, David's son and the team's president) is the same way. We enjoy it. It's fun to go to the game. ... At the same time we have a responsibility to continue to put a good product on the field, so we continue to have good fan support, then if you can make all that work, it's fun" (K.C. STAR, 11/14).
NICKELS & DIMES: In Atlanta, Dan Klepal reported SunTrust Park and the adjacent mixed-use development "will require tens of millions of additional taxpayer dollars for roads, bridges, public safety and foregone property taxes -- expenses beyond" the roughly $400M for construction and maintenance. Road projects in Cumberland County "conceived since the stadium announcement will amount" to more than $41M. Those expenses, among others, will be "paid by a combination of local, state and federal money." That is an "incomplete total that does not include" the $3.4M for buses or $1.2M "annual operational expense for a new people-moving tram around the stadium area;" and only allows $9M for the bridge over I-285 for pedestrians and the circulator (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 11/15).
GENERAL STUDIES: In N.Y., Ken Davidoff writes under the header, "Ranking Baseball's Top 10 GMs -- Yes, Cashman Makes The List." Cardinals GM John Mozeliak ranked No. 1, with Jon Daniels (Rangers), Theo Epstein (Cubs), Brian Sabean (Giants) and Brian Cashman (Yankees) rounding out the top five (N.Y. POST, 11/14). Meanwhile, the AP's Ronald Blum notes MLB GMs have "become the brainy bunch," as four "hired in the last two months have Ivy League backgrounds." The 30 current GMs "include four Harvard graduates, two each from Cornell and Dartmouth, and one apiece from Princeton and Penn." There also are grads of MIT, Amherst, Georgetown and Wesleyan, two law degrees from Harvard, two MBAs from Northwestern and a Ph.D. from Cal (AP, 11/15).
