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Royals on there Yearly Skid

Fri, 15 May 2009 17:57:56 EDT

Ok so we are officially in the middle of our annual, check that biannual gruelling skid. This is what seperates the fans from the bandwagoners. Lets hope that tonight the Grinkenator, Zack the Wiffer, or Zack Grienke what ever name you want to call him stops the 6 day bleedings that have gone on. Like any male 6 days of bleeding is never good and normally a lot of emotions are thrown around during the duration of lets call it... idk a "period". Its hard to watch the team why they are on these biannual "Periods" especially when we see them play so well when they are not on these skids.

Lets look at the positives that we can take from this skid though..... Gil Meche's appeal for the inside the park home run to be ruled an error at LA was approved and the official scoring on the play was an error by Jose Guillen and both runs that we scored on the play we unearned. The decision came from a five person pannel appointed by MLB and was unnanimous. Jose Guillen sent in a confession the board saying that he should have caught the ball and after reviewing the tap and watchingt he batter stop at first the board decided it was an obvious error. The ruling was announced before the game yesterday and Gil could once again say that he had not allowed a HR yet this season. That lasted for another 1.3 hours until he gave up an out of the park homerun that I am told will not be appealed. O well 1.3 more hours of fame for Gil.

Royals the Least streakiest team in the majors!

Sat, 02 May 2009 18:41:37 EDT

With the Royals so far this season there has been an absence of streaks good or bad. They are team that has been on the teater totter in all areas of play. They dont loss a lot but they dont win a lot. They hit here and there dont get hot but most havent been cold. There is a lot of gray area when it comes to this team and the stats prove it-

Most wins in a row is obvious and actaully one of the better steaks we have going for us-

Grienke with 5 straight wins bring his recorded to 5-0 with a 0.50 ERA

Longest Hitting Steak- Alberto Callaspo at 10 games

Surpises that will keep surprising??

Sun, 03 May 2009 23:59:29 EDT

In honor of the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals game I will open upt he discussion. Last week all over sportsline, espn, and any sports media outlit writers, bloggers, and the media were all running the story of first place surprises. At that time the Marlins, Blue Jays, Royals, and Mariners were all in first place and were definatly not expected to be there. Its be a week or two now and the only team that has fallin of that list of 1st place is the Royals and the only other team that has cooled off has to be the Marlins. What I found amusing is that most of the articles and the blogs all thought that the Marlins and Royals had the best shot to place first when September rolled around and most writers were saying that they felt like none of them would win there division with only the Royals being cometitive when the time came. It looks like if last week was an indicator that these predicitions are ass backwards. What does everyone think. I am a a Kansas City resident and being a KC native you have to be an optimist or not like sports. I believe that the Royals will be there it just depends on how quick the bats can warm up. I am not talking 7-8 runs a game I am talking about just getting 2 or 3 a game and our record is so much better. I also think that the Marlins will turn it around, rough series against Phily and they pose the only real threat in that division so maybe they will be there. I really like the Mariners though, they have very solid starters even more so early in the rotation. Closer has done his job and the runs continue to keep coming from all differnet ways which is a good sign. The only team that I believe wont be there in the end is the Blue Jays. They have such a brutal division which comes with a brutal schedule. I think they might be the best out of all four of these teams and if there we relocated to a different division I would be ranting and raving about them. They see Boston, New York, Tampa Bay, and Baltimore to much there is no room for error in that division and I just dont see it happening. That my opinion; now it is time to tell me why I am wrong or right. I dont not know these clubs in and out and fans of these clubs will have better takes them me let me know why your teams won or will be there when rosters are locked and pennate races really begin.

Anyone Else Confused?

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:25:44 EDT

I am extremly confused by this draft. Scott Pioli is supposed to be this absolute talent evaluator genius. He has a proven track record of amazing picks and finding talent deep in the draft. I am giving him the benifit of the doubt because of these facts but my confusion doesn't come from not taking Aaron Curry, it doesnt come from our 1st round draft pick at all. The off season is almost over for the most part. Free Agents have been signed and draft picks have been taken. With little to no more wiggle room is Pioli really going to give the drivers seat to his ROOKIE head coach with this offense? Supposed garing problems with the offense; O line, Wide Recieve, and recently TE. What we did in the draft and off season to improve these areas? Got Jeff Goff from SD a solid gaurd and drafted MO tackle late in the draft at best back up for a few years then starter. At wide recieve we draft a RETURN SPECIALIST if you think this kid from Mcness St. is going to be a WR your nuts he is another Dante Hall at best. So the season will start with us lining Dewayne Bowe, Bobby Engram, and Ben Franklin as out Wide outs and O at TE will be Brad Cottom since we did nothing to replace TG. I know that defense is the cornerstone of playoff teams and thats where a majority of the focus is but how in the world are we expected to resign Matt Cassell what love have we showed him if any. Take five more years of this abuse Cassell dont worry we will get better I think not.