Patience with the process wins out for Royals owner David Glass

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Current ownership of the Kansas City Royals hasn't been as popular with fans as its predecessor, the late Ewing Kauffman, was. Mostly losing records for the better part of two decades will erode faith.
But when David Glass and his son Dan hired Dayton Moore in the middle of 2006, ownership wasn't looking for results that season, the next or even the one after that. Moore was hired to turn the Royals around over the long haul.
Glass admitted Wednesday after his team beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series that Moore's process took a little longer than he probably anticipated 8 1/2 years ago. But here the Royals are, in their first World Series since 1985, when Kauffman owned the club, and Moore is largely responsible.
"It's always tempting to take short-term strategies to solve the problems of the moment, but everybody hung in there and Dayton's got some great baseball people and it all worked well," Glass said inside the Champagne-stenched home clubhouse.*
Glass also recalled when his son, Moore and himself moved Ned Yost into the dugout after the team fired Trey Hillman in May 2010. Yost hasn't been universally popular with fans, either, and sometimes there has been friction with players. But Yost has grown into the job, too.
"Dayton and I, with Dan, all three of us men talked to Ned about coming here," Glass said. "This was the plan. It took a little longer than what we wanted it to, but credit to Dayton and Dan and everybody, they stayed the course."
Even since the Royals started on this run, Glass has been answering questions about Moore leaving, possibly to return to the Atlanta Braves — where he worked his way up the organization, playing a key role in the franchise's 14 straight division titles, before coming here.
Glass reiterated that Moore wasn't leaving.
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For his part, Moore said he watched, feeling thrilled and relieved, as his players dog-piled onto each other after beating the Orioles. It's what he always wanted to have happen.
To MLB Network Radio, Moore said:

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