Vote or Die: Select the Royals Play of the Year

by Freneau on Nov 2, 2005 4:50 PM EST in Kansas City Royals News

Well, I guess theres something to be said for finding the meritorious submerged beneath a deluge of horribleness. Only that kind of ethos can be behind the KC Royals official website promotion asking us to select the 2005 play of the year. An anonymous PR staffer writes,

Vote for the 2005 Kansas City Royals Play of the Year
We've assembled the cream of the crop of this year's top Kansas City Royals plays from the regular season. Relive each play by clicking on the video links below. Once you've made up your mind, simply click the vote button below to select your choice for the Kansas City Royals Play of the Year. Voting ends at 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 9.

You can visit the official "ballot" here, or find it easily enough on the team website.

Angel Berroa is represented well, as is now former Royal T-Long. The choices are as follows:

Stairs' Grand Slam against Detroit(7/14)

"Berroa's Defense" against the Tigers on 7/16

Sweeney's 2nd Homer Against the White Sox(7/27)

"DeJesus' Throw" against Boston on 8/3

"Long's Game Saving Grab" against Boston on 8/24

Berroa's Squeeze Bunt against ChiSox on 9/8

I like the fact that DeJesus' magical throw against Boston happened in the first inning... perhaps the fact that he nailed Johnny Damon had something to do with it. Even better, the Royals didn't even win the game

As Puffy told us last year, "Vote or Die", so lets follow his sage wisdom and ensure that... well... that one of these choices wins. I suggest we throw our support behind the DeJesus play myself: Royals 2005 Baseball- Occasionally Vindicative, Rarely Successful.

Believe.

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Some pretty weak choices

Homeruns are a dime a dozen and thus do not warrant very much attention for plays of the year. Therefore, we are pretty much given the choices of Berroa's defense, Berroa's bunting ablilty, Long's catch, and the DeJesus throw.

Berroa's Bunt: This is not really a top play nominee is it? It says a lot about an organizatoin when a standard squeeze play makes the final list.

Long's sliding catch: Garden variety

Berroa's shortstop play: This was actually a very good play. Deep in the hole, saving a run with "stick-to-it-ness" after an obvious error by the 3rd baseman.

DeJesus's Throw: Nice gun. Was Damon really trying to score on that throw though? He looked like he was running half assed and more interested in watching the flight of the ball rather than trying to touch the plate. It was a good throw with semi-good accuracy that recorded an out because of bad baserunning.

Final Verdict: I see why we don't draw that many fans, our top plays of the year are pretty pathetic. Only two of the plays should have made ESPN's webgems on any given night.

My Vote: Berroa's play at short.

Mr. Weatherstone

by rjweathestone on Nov 3, 2005 3:43 AM EST reply actions