Did Anyone Else See This in the Star? And Trade Stuff

by Freneau on Dec 3, 2006 11:14 PM EST in Kansas City Royals News

In today's Star, there was a column by Joe Schulman about adopting the Royals as his team. Some kind of regular column will be involved, as well as a blog.

What?

Doesn't the Star know there are already Royals fans out there?

I'm sorta interested in who pitched this to whom, since Schulman doesn't appear to have any previous connection to the Star. Just really a bit odd. I'm like half-insulted, half-curious.

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[update]

"Greggagne4hof" mentions some intriguing Emil Brown rumors involving the Texas Rangers over in the Diaries... I'm not sure how Emil can really have a market, he'll turn 32 next season and is now a career .263/.336/.414 hitter in over 1550 plate appearances. Maybe its his near identical .804 and .815 OPSs the last two seasons. I don't know.

"PhattStairs" meanwhile is talking Royals-Dodgers for a possible trade which seems too good to be true. I wouldn't put it past Ned Colleti either, he may savor Reggie Sanders' veteran presence and leadership.

Does anything beat veteran presence by the way?

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RR, I understand why you're insulted

but I wouldn't worry about it. This is a pretty lame gimmick if you ask me. Who wants to read some guy from Atlanta posing as a Royals fan who has no knowledge of the history of the franchise, or first hand experience with the excruciating pain the fans have experienced the last two decades, which is the antithesis of the Atlanta experience. Are we supposed to be flattered that he picked our downtrodden franchise over Tampa Bay?

The Review offers the best Royals coverage on the web by far. This is just another step down in the Star's deteriorating coverage.

by chukar on Dec 4, 2006 9:31 AM EST reply actions

I think I'm gonna email the dude...

...Just out of curiousity.

Its not really a problem, because its not a zero sum game, most people have multiple sites they check out, and its not like at the end of the year a federal law will demand that only one survive.

The Star has been fairly pro-blog these last few years, well, insomuchas they havent been noticeably anti. The were running/linking Bradford Doolittle's stuff on The Stat Guy page for awhile, and he got an interview with GMDM out of it, but the site hasn't been updated in months now...

http://kcstarstatguy.blogspot.com/

by Freneau on Dec 4, 2006 12:35 PM EST up reply actions

Bradford Doolittle

Hey Will, I pretty well liked reading Doolittle's column. Do you know if he is still publishing somewhere?

by James Quinn on Dec 5, 2006 6:32 PM EST up reply actions

All I have to say is ...ARGH!!!!!!!

So some psuedo sports writer decides to chose another favorite team. Let's see his favorite team is Atlanta...Moore moves from Atlanta to Kansas City.... so Mr. Psuedo chooses Kansas City as his SECOND favorite team. Does he wear the same colored socks everyday?

What does he know about the Royals? Does he know where there minor leagues teams are? Does he know how bad Bullrroa is and does he even care? He states he likes pitching duels, so why pick the Royals. Did he note that they had the worst ERA in baseball last season.

To this I will just say.... that, this too shall pass. One guy writing about his views seems really boring to me. I want to hear variety of opinions from people that I know follow each and every game. Our little online pub will be better than one guy's pontifications ever could be.

Keep up the good work RR and we will survive even this lame attempt at fair weather fandom.

by grudz69 on Dec 4, 2006 2:34 PM EST reply actions

His website looks lame

I wouldn't worry about it, RR. This is where the honey is. So to speak.

by marbotty on Dec 4, 2006 3:58 PM EST reply actions

Knowing how to win

I'm pretty sure this is considered even more important than veteran presence. That's why we have Reggie, so he can teach the young guys this critical skill.

by chukar on Dec 4, 2006 6:57 PM EST reply actions

About this guy rooting for the Royals...

Hear me out...first of all, I hate the Braves, always have...they just win, and its unexplainable, and I hate it...but I think what this guy is doing is applaudable and I don't see a problem with it, plus he hates the Yankees and that makes a perfect Royals fan...I mean they didn't call Brett "The Yankee Killer" for nothing...and Bill Simmons on espn.com explains picking up the Clippers as his NBA team just for a different perspective and listed a hundred reasons why and actually bought season tickets...also, I have always loved hockey, go Blades! go Outlaws! but I never had a team that I could root for in the NHL, I like Eddie Belfour, because a friend of mine got me into hockey, so I rooted for the Leafs, but my wife couldn't take it (she's a hockey fan), so I am a converted Canucks fan, and I hope the Canucks fans don't hate me for trying to adapt to their style of fanaticism...I used to love the Dolphins, because of Dan Marino, but now, YUCK!...anyhow, I think new fans of all kinds accepted, until they start acting like a jerkalope, maybe he will learn the "suffering" thru socializing with the fans and then become a "real" fan, I mean the Royals are a fun team because we were actually pretty dominant from '75-'85...I think we have to question why we root for sports...I root for them because it promotes athleticism, forces social interaction (expecially in youth sports, not just 810 AM call ins), and develops money and entertainment for societies...new fan accepted, but I don't think he's gonna see any pitching matchups this year!

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

by PhattStairs on Dec 4, 2006 7:26 PM EST reply actions