When have we had an upper echelon payroll and high fan expectations/demands? Well we've been owned by a multibillion dollar corporation and had at least 90% stadium capacity for the year since the early 1990's. Oh also, we play in the third largest market in the United States. No reason why we didn't have a upper echelon payroll in the past. But then again, looking at this 95 million dollar disaster, do we really need to be throwing money around?