I understood people's frustration. proverb

 I understood people's frustration. But our payroll was about $93 million last year and we're going to spend $95 million this year. That's plenty of money. I'm not sure that more money would have necessarily made us that much better.

 I say they're misinformed. In a place like Wake Forest, the scholarships are worth $40,000 or $50,000 apiece. They spend $15 (million) or $20 million a year in scholarship aid. That money has to come from somewhere.

 The overall baseball business is improving dramatically year to year. The 30 teams several years ago were losing $400 [million] to $500 million. I think . . . it has gotten to where next year [MLB] expects to make money.

 I've got a funny feeling that if Detroit could spend $80 million this year and the Rangers could spend $80 million and Colorado could spend $80 million, I probably wouldn't have him [Foote] here today.

  ... A-Rod made his choice. He took the money. He could have taken $18 million or $20 million, but he gleefully accepted an average annual salary of $25.2 million, and now he wishes to God he were making a lot less money because now he is miserable in Texas. He wants to come to Boston, and he still might. But the truth is that he'd already be house-hunting in Greater Boston if he hadn't already made a bad decision to go for every last buck three years ago.

 In the NFL, for most of the teams the profitability is about $5 million to $18 million a year, with a handful above or below. A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. If this proposal adds $10 million to the cap, you'd be operating not making any money. The numbers the players are asking for may not be feasible from the owners' standpoint.

 This year's general-fund revenue, paid for by property-tax revenues, fines, fees and City Public Service income is $728 million. Last year was $620 million, which is (about) a 17 percent increase over last year. Phil's not doing anything different than what the rest of them (former mayors) do. That money comes from taxpayers' pockets.

 I like to think that next year, they'll go someplace else. But there's a lot of money to be made here. For every grow we find, there's probably two or three we don't. And you know, if you make $8 or $9 million one year, you'd probably be tempted to come back the next year.

 They can't live within their means. Their revenues will increase by $188 million, but they'll spend $275 million more than what they estimated. It seems that no matter how much money they get they'll spend more.

 This was a five-year reform (and) we're coming to our fifth year. We haven't used all of our money because we chose not to spend it quickly, but to spend it well and to spend it in full consultation with the people who give us our money.

 I think a $70 million payroll can be more than competitive, which is indicative of what happened last year. If you are in the $70 (million) to $80 million range, you can do it the right way, with a combination of veteran players and using players from within. But your scouting and player development are critical in doing it.

 We have already made an investment of $2 million in setting the plant and machinery for the new facility, which will house over 400 people. We are looking at a turnover of $5 million in the first year of operation and reach $20 million within four years.

 2005 was a significant growth year for XM in which we added more than 2.7 million net subscribers. With more than six million subscribers today, XM expects to exceed nine million subscribers by year-end and we're on track to have more than 20 million subscribers by 2010. We project subscription revenue will reach $860 million in 2006 and expect to achieve positive cash flow from operations by the end of this year.

 The simple question is, can we spend ($400 million) or $500 million in taxpayers' money in a better way?

 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.


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