Cash flow is a better gauge than net profit. What's 7% of $2.55 Billion? Debt service that, including any principal reduction required by the banks each year.
No it’s not. A man whose net worth is north of $2 billion should not have liquidity issues. Lending institutions, investors line up in droves to provide cash flow solutions to individuals with underlying assets in the billions. Ridiculous assertion.
What’s ridiculous is someone who thinks a billionaire
is going to personally guarantee a company loan.
They don’t have to. Learn accounting and finance.
That nonsense you spewed is accounting and finance? Good one. What next, Mikolas for Cy Young??
Beyond ignorant that you try to differentiate the Company from the man. Bill Dewitt = the Cardinals. JerryJones = the Cowboys, etc. No one takes a dump in the organization without Dollar Bill’s permission. There is no “they.” All other investors are just that: passive investors.
You better call it a night. Sunday is your day to wash and wax the DeWitt fleet, right?
this is how the Cards owners have operated forever, and Cards fans have been letting them get away with it for far tooo long. the Cards will never win another NL pennant until they get new owners. the sooner all cards fans pundits former players realize that.. the better. not sure why everyone don't know that already. I already this over 4 years ago
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Attendance is down: self-inflicted.
POBO clean slate: self-inflicted, thanks to bad contracts and the appalling desire to sacrifice 2025 to the John Mozeliak Farewell Tour
Cable revenue down: partially self-inflicted. Sure, lots of people cut the cord, but would they if the team was winning and fun to watch?
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Attendance is down: self-inflicted.
POBO clean slate: self-inflicted, thanks to bad contracts and the appalling desire to sacrifice 2025 to the John Mozeliak Farewell Tour
Cable revenue down: partially self-inflicted. Sure, lots of people cut the cord, but would they if the team was winning and fun to watch?
You want to go out and sign some free agents to multi-year contracts when you're handing the reins over to a new
boss next season? Not going to happen.
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Oh I not only "see it" cranny I've been among the earliest to see it pointing out all offseason that BDWJr was slashing payroll because he fears a loss of 500,000 - 1,000,000 in attendance if the team fails to contend w/o adding players.
Local Cable revenue, other than LAD/NYY, is down for all team yet they all spent this offseason adding players.
You have no idea if there's a "big time strike" looming.
Pretty sure C. Bloom could've had a say over adding players as well.
The Cardinals went cheap this offseason, just accept it.
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Oh I not only "see it" cranny I've been among the earliest to see it pointing out all offseason that BDWJr was slashing payroll because he fears a loss of 500,000 - 1,000,000 in attendance if the team fails to contend w/o adding players.
Local Cable revenue, other than LAD/NYY, is down for all team yet they all spent this offseason adding players.
You have no idea if there's a "big time strike" looming.
Pretty sure C. Bloom could've had a say over adding players as well.
The Cardinals went cheap this offseason, just accept it.
Bloom is spending 90+ % of his time on strengthening the pipeline. Strike? Most pundits say it's on the horizon.
Major market teams? If the cable contracts are down, they still have much more money to spend than middle market to small market teams on buying players. It's all relative.
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Oh I not only "see it" cranny I've been among the earliest to see it pointing out all offseason that BDWJr was slashing payroll because he fears a loss of 500,000 - 1,000,000 in attendance if the team fails to contend w/o adding players.
Local Cable revenue, other than LAD/NYY, is down for all team yet they all spent this offseason adding players.
You have no idea if there's a "big time strike" looming.
Pretty sure C. Bloom could've had a say over adding players as well.
The Cardinals went cheap this offseason, just accept it.
Bloom is spending 90+ % of his time on strengthening the pipeline. Strike? Most pundits say it's on the horizon.
Major market teams? If the cable contracts are down, they still have much more money to spend than middle market to small market teams on buying players. It's all relative.
He's been doing that since 2024, staying in the background so as not to step on Mo's toes in his final season but still very much in the loop as far as moves.
Sure there can be a strike, definitely will be if owners insist on a salary cap.
But I'll ask, why didn't all the other owners in MLB slash as much payroll as possible this past offseason then?
Soto $700M
Vlad, Jr $500M
In total over $3.53B was spent by owners of MLB team this offseason, an embarrassing $2M of that came from BDWjr.
Dewitt went cheap and only a fool would argue he didn't, you're not a fool cranny.
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Attendance is down: self-inflicted.
POBO clean slate: self-inflicted, thanks to bad contracts and the appalling desire to sacrifice 2025 to the John Mozeliak Farewell Tour
Cable revenue down: partially self-inflicted. Sure, lots of people cut the cord, but would they if the team was winning and fun to watch?
You want to go out and sign some free agents to multi-year contracts when you're handing the reins over to a new
boss next season? Not going to happen.
What a fallacious and disingenuous argument, Cranny. Bloom is already employed by Skinflint Bill. Bloom also has the ability to communicate. He and Bill could have collaborated to make sure the Cards got some new players and didn’t have a crummy season for the third year in a row. Why do you think you can tell us Moe has to be gone before the Cards can worry about the future? Surely, you don’t believe that. That’s completely illogical. Come up with some better stuff, dude.
Welcome Alex and you're spot on, BDWJr crying "poor mouth" and slashing payroll w/o using it to add players this season is a joke.
I guess you don’t see the situation, rock. Cable revenue is down, attendance is down, a big time strike is looming, and you want to give your new POBO as clean a slate as possible going into 2026 (as few long term contracts as possible).
Attendance is down: self-inflicted.
POBO clean slate: self-inflicted, thanks to bad contracts and the appalling desire to sacrifice 2025 to the John Mozeliak Farewell Tour
Cable revenue down: partially self-inflicted. Sure, lots of people cut the cord, but would they if the team was winning and fun to watch?
You want to go out and sign some free agents to multi-year contracts when you're handing the reins over to a new
boss next season? Not going to happen.
What a fallacious and disingenuous argument, Cranny. Bloom is already employed by Skinflint Bill. Bloom also has the ability to communicate. He and Bill could have collaborated to make sure the Cards got some new players and didn’t have a crummy season for the third year in a row. Why do you think you can tell us Moe has to be gone before the Cards can worry about the future? Surely, you don’t believe that. That’s completely illogical. Come up with some better stuff, dude.
Worry about the future, Rojo? The Cardinals know that the key to a successful future lies in the prospects and development process in the minor league system. Bloom was successful in that area at Tampa and Boston. Cerfolio was successful in that area with Cleveland. That's where they're spending their time. Bloom will kick it into high gear at the major league level when he takes over as POBO. But first things first.
I am starting to see things your way, Cranny. No one in the FO can multi-task, which is why we are where we are. They are not used to chewing gum and walking at the same time. Most business orgs can’t, can they? Doing one thing at a time is a valuable skill to have as a Cardinal FO guy. Yet, we can give out contracts to managers and tell them and the fans there’s no pressure to win.
Rojo Johnson wrote: ↑12 Apr 2025 11:08 am
I am starting to see things your way, Cranny. No one in the FO can multi-task, which is why we are where we are. They are not used to chewing gum and walking at the same time. Most business orgs can’t, can they? Doing one thing at a time is a valuable skill to have as a Cardinal FO guy. Yet, we can give out contracts to managers and tell them and the fans there’s no pressure to win.
If you are going to tell an American business how to run the company and how much profit it should make and they don't listen to your sage advice, you might consider spending discretionary dollars elsewhere.
