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[Jeff Young] “Greg Johnson reiterates his desire to “somewhat breakeven” with running the operation.”

  • October 25, 2023


[Jeff Young] “Greg Johnson reiterates his desire to “somewhat breakeven” with running the operation.”

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  2. What a joke. You’re in the same market as the 49ers and Warriors and they seem to get a return in their investments without allot of issues.

    People are quick to point to inflation and higher prices and I agree, but look at Golden State who’s just down the road from your stadium, they’re loud and fill up there seats without allot of major issues. Just look at the 2010 era of Giants baseball, people didn’t have an issue shelling out money to see the product of the field and were selling out home games left and right. You put a winning product on the field people will come and show you support.

    People can say what they want about inflation, but the Johnson crew allowed San Francisco market to be dominated by other franchises by not wanting to commit to anything and terrible drafting and scouting departments over the years. It’s a failure on your part Johnson and your dog shit investments.

  3. Uh, what else did you expect?

    You want there to be a Giants team 5 years from now? Then the operation needs to at least break even, but realistically should make money.

    Imagine being so self-involved that you thought someone else should pay for your entertainment.

  4. Break even can be a good thing for everybody complaining. Thats better than them pocketing profit. They are putting money back into the team

  5. What are they even doing anymore? Pocketing a ton of money and building that community over taking Lot A.

  7. Get this fucking tightwad out of here and sell to someone serious. Absolute loser mentality.

  8. Joe Lacob and company need to make an offer this shit head can’t refuse! We need a guy that will do whatever it takes to win

  9. I wish the teams were owned by their cities and had set player budgets distributed more or less evenly across them by the MLB from ticket sales and network deals. City gets to keep profits from concession sales and other events to spend as it pleases.

  11. More money for these greedy shits to give to MAGA

    How about selling the team to someone else

  13. I have a feeling if the shoe was on the other foot and the A’s were the more profitable asset in the Bay Area, he wouldn’t think twice about moving the team.
    I’m ready to stop buying tickets, concessions and merchandise otherwise.

  16. This is why LA lets Magic talk and not the billionaires who actually own the majority of the team.

  18. my boss just gave up his 4 season tickets behind dugout, he’s done…..he cant stand johnson, farhan or melvin

  19. This is being blown out of proportion IMO.

    I’m not a huge fan of Johnson, his family’s politics, or his increased involvement with the team. Has early Jed York years vibes.

    That being said, this quote was through the lens of not wanting to spend just to spend, they want to be calculated, and he also did say that if the situation comes where they need to go over the CBT they’d be willing to do it.

    Is it a surprise they don’t want to lose money? Idc what team it is, none of them want to lose money.

    It’s not like he’s saying “we want to win 54% of games” or some nonsense like that.

  20. What an insanely tone deaf statement given everything that happened this past offseason.

    The Giants were #2 in profit last season and guess what? They posted a higher overall attendance this season compared to 2022. Fuck that old piece of shit

  21. Read the room, Greg. I’m convinced he’s more of the issue than Farhan with the Giants failures. He has absolutely no pulse of the Giants fan base whatsoever.

  22. This is the TRUE REASON extending Farhan’s contract. In GJs pov, Farhan is doin’ very well. Not spending a bulk, getting a mediocre standings so let people keep attending a team.

  26. I like how every person is picking those 2 words in a long response to report on.

    If you listen (or read) his response in it’s entirety, it makes sense. He doesn’t completely shut down wanting to spend (and the giants the past few seasons have TRIED to spend). He simply put that being consistently over the luxury tax, doesn’t automatically equal success, and that’s been proven this season.

  28. The whole quote is:

    >“When you look at the luxury tax, one year you can go past that if you have to,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s something we want to do for a long period. I think if you look at the teams that have jumped up in free agency, they didn’t really have great years this year, with spending. So I’m not sure there’s a direct correlation there. **But we plan on being active, and if we have to go through that, we will go through that.** But we also represent a group that ***hopefully our goal is to somewhat break even***, which is somewhat a challenge in this business. But everybody, I can tell you, from the ownership side: ***the goal is to win***. And we’re doing everything we can.” 

    In context it’s pretty clear ‘break even’ was an aspirational statement and ‘be competitive and maybe step into the luxury tax short term’ was what he actually said. That you can’t buy a great team but you can definitely buy a very bad one that loses everyone money is also pretty code to the point he was making.

    I get people around here want to hate on Greg Johnson, and none more than the people who report on the team but, the way this is being framed doesn’t match his actual comments.

    He basically said the opposite of how it’s being reported.

  30. Most laughably absurd moment of that press conference by a longshot. Goes to show how Zaidi’s bargain bin shopping is more of an ownership group mandated feature than a bug.

  31. Getting Bob was a good move. Well done.

    Players love that guy and he’s not off rating coffee shops on Instagram with his sleeves cut off.

    Now let’s get stupid and get some big boys in big games.

    It’s not our money bro we do not care if u break even u rich dork w daddy’s money. Entertain us.

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