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Owner & Goals:
I edited the owner information to match real life owner William Giles, but I did not touch any of the ratings.
Owner: Bill Giles (part of a group that bought the team from the Carpenter family in 1981)
Patience: Demanding
Fiscal Personality: Controlling
Involvement: Normal
Priority: Winning
He has set forth a list of goals for me accomplish this year.
Reach the Playoffs
The first goal for this year is to make the playoffs. This is going to be tough as the talent on this team is barely good enough to be .500
Sign Kent Tekulve to an extension
This goal does not make much sense to me. Tekulve, while being my best pitcher, will be 40 on opening day and is under contract through the end of the 1988 season. So my owner wants me to lock him up through his age 43 season? No way, I plan on trading him once I fall out of contention.
Make 1.4 Million in profit
With a 10M payroll, projected gate revenue of 7M, projected season tickets sales on 5M, we project to have a deficit of 140K. The only way to meet this goal is to shed salary. There are 4 players with a salary over 1 M and I may have to unload one of them.
Reach the World Series
Giles gave me a long term goal of making the World Series within two years.
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