GO ROYALS! we be the bomb!

Aviles has 19 doubles, 2 triples, and 7 homers in 219 PA. Mike is also 18 for 40 against Chicago.

Anybody know the distance of the Guillen HR in feet?

Decided DJ wasn’t throwing at Olivo and should not have been ejected. 3 straight in the face not on purpose?

he’s not swinging at bad pitches right now. He has drawn 3 walks in 4 games. The last time he did that was in May 2007.

Clearly, Grudz was holding the team back

I agree. He and DDJ are clearly offense-killing clubhouse cancers. Intangibles rule!

So, I just watched the video of the “fracas” for the 1st time, a few things stuck out to me.

1) What was going through Olivo’s mind as he approached DJ? My guess would be something along the lines of, “I’ve already been suspended once this year,” but it ended up just making the absolute WORST “fracas in MLB history. Though, luckily Miguel got a decent shot in @ AJ Piersknsic, though it was over Jose G.

2) Anybody notice who played peacekeeper? Mr Cool head himself, Jose Guillen. It will take a team of 4 sociologists, 3 anthropologists and 13 psychologists to figure out how he managed to talk down AJ Pierznskfioak w/o those 2 coming to blows. Seriously, how can those 2 go toe to toe w/ adrenaline running and NEITHER of them threw a punch?!

3) Anybody notice where Trey Hillman ran to? Right next to Jose.

Just some observations…

9-7 and 3-1-1 in the 5 series.

Don’t ask me how they’ll get that final two-tenths of a win, but Hillman will find a way.

Source

Guillen was still hot after the game, saying he should’ve ordered Mark Teahen to be beaned for bunting with a six-run lead, admitting to having players hit in the past, and predicting more drama in the future.

“Get ready for the warnings,” he said. “I signed a five-year deal with this organization, and we play Kansas City a lot.”

Bring it Ozzie

.340/.365/.550/.915

After his little confession after the game where he admitted to the press that he sometimes orders pitchers to throw at batters, he needs to be suspended for a long time. Not because he’s the only manager that does that, but because he basically said, “yes I do it, I’ve always done and I will always do it. Fuck the rules, this is baseball and I’m going to be telling my pitchers to hit batters whenever the hell I want to.” In the last several years, for better or worse, MLB has taken the issue of bean balls, hit batsmen and basebrawls seriously by really cracking down on all of the above. If they are still serious about it, they need to slap Ozzie down hard and continue to slap him down hard every time one of his pitchers intentionally throws at an opposing batter. In the next Royals-Sox series, he’s going to have is pitcher(s) throw at Royals batter(s). Everyone knows this. He basically said as much. The Commissioner’s Office should warn him before hand by telling him that he’s going to get suspended for 10, 15, 20 games or whatever it takes to make him grow the hell up. And the umpires MUST warn both benches before each of those games so that the Sox pitcher gets tossed immediately when he beans a Royal, instead of waiting for the Royals retaliation, thereby only getting a Royals pitcher ejected. Ozzie Smith doesn’t give a shit about the rules or anything other than what he wants to do or say. If MLB cares about its rules, then it needs to make Ozzie hurt.