There's a lot of good going on right now. And we seem to be coming along. |
There's an energy. You can feel the energy of what's happening. |
These are people who are going to have a big impact on the success of the organization. Timing is not as important as getting the absolute right people in. |
This is more than Opening Day. This is the first day. |
This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful. |
We want to win. Will that make it a success? Absolutely. But there are other things that certainly would allow us to point to this year as a very successful year, and I think we're already on the way. |
We'll just keep building up on what we're doing here and make sure when they come back they have equally as good a time as they're having tonight. I'm overjoyed [with] what the organization has done. I'm just really proud of everybody. |
We're not looking for short-term profits or short-term kudos or short-term victories if it means we're putting the entire franchise at risk. |
We've been constantly writing checks. I haven't looked at the balance yet. We have a good deal of money to spend but (team president Matt Silverman 's) job, along with management and myself, is determining how much do we spend today, how much do we spend over a three-year period, how much over a seven-year period, and, most importantly, where is the money deployed. |
We've got some significant capital going in. Some is going to payroll this year, some is going to payroll next year and some the year after that. Some is going to fixing up the Trop. Some is going to bringing in new management. We're going to try to balance it, and it's a reasonable amount of money. |
We've received a lot of national press. It's been positive, and it's had a spillover to a lot of national sponsorship deals. |