Dayton Moore, if you’re sticking around, please be less pissy

One of Royals blogger Rany Jazayerli‘s skills is his ability to write really long pieces that hold your interest. Today he’s posted a 3,600-letter to Royals owner David Glass about the contract extension Dayton Moore recently received.

Jazayerli’s take: Moore’s new deal makes sense if it allows the general manager to focus on the long-term success of the franchise. But, damn, his psychological bundle of arrogance and insecurity (reminiscent of a former president, no?) needs some work.

Virtually every person who has covered the Royals regularly this season

– print, radio, TV, whatever – has been struck by just how ridiculously

thin-skinned the front office is. Which is a problem. Not

because it makes it harder for the media to do their job (it is, but

that’s not a problem for anyone but us), but because a front office

that can’t handle criticism is a front office that doesn’t broker

dissent. It’s a front office that’s unwilling to admit when it’s made a

mistake. It’s certainly a front office that’s incapable of learning

from its mistakes.