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I'm GM of an expansion franchise that I put in Portland, set them up to be owned by Nike, more specifically Nike CEO Phil Knight, after a couple of years of sub-par baseball, expected by me and ownership, Phil dies, I set it up for his son Travis to take over as owner of the team, however he's not really much of a part of the Nike business, (well IRL anyway), so he gets mad at the job I'm doing as the GM of a 3rd year expansion franchise. Instead of firing me, he slashes my budget from $140M to $60M, so i trade away all high priced talent, have a mediocre year (not surprisingly), decides he sees greener pastures in San Antonio, moves the team, retains me as GM, ups my budget to $70M, and gives me a large infusion of cash (something like $120M in cash on hand), I had the lowest payroll of all 32 teams and was the National League champions and lost the World Series in 5 games to the other expansion team that my friend runs in New Orleans (with a much larger budget)...
I guess what I'm trying to say is just because your owner gives you crazy goals and slashes your budget, doesn't mean that great things can't happen
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