Stuart Sternberg
Stuart Sternberg
Stuart L. Sternbergis a Wall Street investor. He is the principal shareholder of the ownership group that owns the Tampa Bay Rays, and has acted as the team's Managing General Partner since November 2005...
felt knew spent talking time
I felt like I knew him already. We spent a lot of time talking on the phone.
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The time has come for dramatic change for this organization.
timing
The timing is not as important as getting the right people.
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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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It finally started to hit me recently. I was so caught up in the moment from the time I took over, trying to do so many things, that I didn't get a chance to experience what it would be like. We had a lot to do to get things right, but we are getting it done and today it's all hitting me.
national received
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's like you're going on vacation, and the trip is three days away, that's probably the best time, that anticipation. It's almost like the anticipation is greater than the journey itself. I don't think that's going to be the case. But right now, if I can almost stop time, it's this great period where we're just close enough, and you see all this spectacular work getting done, both with the team and the organization and the stadium, that if I can just stop it now, it would be great. Unfortunately wins and losses will muck everything up.
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It's going to cost us some real money, and it's not something that necessarily will be here for forever. But when you're trying to make nice and when you're trying to show people that you're here for the long run, I think it's as clear an indication as anything we can do.
energy
There's an energy. You can feel the energy of what's happening.
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There's a lot of good going on right now. And we seem to be coming along.
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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.