2009: It's Over
by royalsreview on Oct 4, 2009 5:29 PM EDT
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Ballgame over, series over, season over.
With a third straight opportunity to play spoiler, the Royals lost a third straight game to the Twins. Here are some of the pitchers who appeared in this game: Carl Pavano, Luke Hochevar, Anthony Lerwe, Dusty Hughes, Y. Yabuta, Bobby Keppel, Ron Mahay, Brian Duensing.
A hearty congrats to the Twins for getting to 86 wins and forcing the lamest one-game playoff ever. The Twins went 10-22 against the AL East and 19-21 against the AL West.
As for the Royals, it's all over.
Thanks to a "hot" September, the Royals only lost 97 games in 2009. The Royals went 48-81 in games not started by Zack Greinke. Trust the process.
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You make it seem worse than I remember it being
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Oct 4, 2009 5:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
yes
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Oct 4, 2009 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
wonder how it compares to 2001
granted, we had offense in 2001, and a GM who was slightly competent
Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think this season was the worst in Royals history...
And I have been alive for basically the bad ones exclusively, so I think it is fair to say that I am somewhat of an expert on the subject of horrific Royals baseball. After watching 95% of the games this year, all I can say is: we need a new pitching staff, we need a new offense, a new defense, a new manager, and most likely a new general manager.
At least when we had Allard, we had valid excuses – no budget, meddling ownership, a general lack of parity in the game. But now? We have incompetence, arrogance, infielders playing the outfield, hard throwing relievers that couldn’t hit the strikezone with a beachball, and more. Somehow, “The process” not only failed at making the organization respectable again, but has made the situation even worse.
Before we were just the lovable laughingstock, now we’re the arrogant, blind to the truths of reality laughingstock. It’s like, the earth is round, but the Royals keep managing to find a way to walk off the edge of it anyway.
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:39 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Well said.
Depressing, but well said.
~ That seasick camel is a regular osteopath. ~
by DiggityDawg on Oct 4, 2009 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice.
Love the last couple of sentences.
by hunter s. royal on Oct 5, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hm
and there’s no Robert Ford on the post game… having an all-Greg Schaum post game is… unique and I think Greg is gonna close it out by 5pm
Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
and Robert was at the Chiefs game cheering for the Giants
at least someone had a good time
Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i knew there was a reason why I didn't like him! :) j/k
by Rob5KC on Oct 4, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
aside from being from Nooyawk too?
kidding kidding.. Rob is good even if he had his pro-Jacobs moments. Although the 2hr+ postgame he did by himself after a bad quick loss was… something
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Obviously, 610 needs to give me the postgame job.
If this team is still this bad next year (IE, if drastic changes are not made), I am going to make an effort to call into every postgame show just for laughs.
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
did you call into any of the postgames?
hope you could get in before the regulars
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I bombed several calls
was better at anonymous texting
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sweet- would give me a reason to listen to 610
(I think it would be the first one)
by sterlingice on Oct 4, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
but both text messages he has read
were people saying they’re not going to attend games in 2010 as long as Trey is the manager
Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also, Felix Hernandez has gone 6IP 2H 0ER 0BB 6K against the Rangers so far today
SO i can’t wait to see zack get the Cy stolen from him because Felix managed to scrape together 19 wins
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As much as I'd like Zack to win it....I think it's clear now that he likely won't
by Rob5KC on Oct 4, 2009 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
(Clear? I mean. Don't get me wrong- it definitely could happen, but I'm not clear it will)
by sterlingice on Oct 4, 2009 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah i think he still wins it
didn’t they already do the voting anyway? pretty sure i read this somewhere
it would be a shame if zack didn’t win it, he has pitched quite a bit better than felix this year when you look at the defense independent metrics, well, even just era / strikeouts / walks etc
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
national game..he gives up four runs...any undecideds will likely choose someone else after that game
I hope I’m wrong, believe me
by Rob5KC on Oct 4, 2009 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah but if they watched the game
they would realize that the joke of an outfield completely hosed him
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Rangers just scored 2 ER and they took Felix out
so his ERA finishes at 2.49.
by swing and a miss on Oct 4, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Least fun season that I can remember.
There had to be maybe 25 games that I enjoyed.
I only went to 4 games this season, the fewest in a looooong time.
~ That seasick camel is a regular osteopath. ~
by DiggityDawg on Oct 4, 2009 5:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yes, it is possible to lose and have fun.
Not nearly as much fun as winning – but you
can lose in a way that is respectable. I have
lost all respect for the team this year, except
for some starting pitchers and Butler.
by kgustaf on Oct 4, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Most disappointing pitcher for the Royals this year? Hochevar, Davies or Cruz?
not putting Farnsworth as an option.
by Rob5KC on Oct 4, 2009 5:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
hochevar easy
he had some bright spots this season but hasn’t even resembled a major league pitcher lately
i am beginning to think it’s just all in his head, sometimes it really looks like it on the mound.
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mambachevar is the only option
had some of best starts and a lot more of the worst starts. Someone who needs to figure out what his A stuff is and what his B stuff is
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe Mellinger's right
Hoch could be a great pitcher someday … in the National League.
by swing and a miss on Oct 4, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
luke could be a great reliever...just not what a #1 pick is supposed to be though
by Rob5KC on Oct 4, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
DM doesn't believe in turning #1 picks into relievers
After all, that doesn’t work
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i love that the main thing they shoved in our face when he was drafted...
was how mentally together he was with his fancy sports psychologist and all that bullshit
Fire Everyone
by billybeingbilly on Oct 4, 2009 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
to be fair to DM
he didn’t pick Hochevar, that was on Ladnier, yeah, that’s the ticket.
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
felix is done, 6.2ip 2er 1bb 6so
so his era goes up. only have 1 run lead, they could blow it
OH AND WHAT IS THIS? wakamatsu pulled him with 2 outs…. so he could get the standing ovation at home
something hillman didn’t do for zack
thanks a lot douchebag
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 5:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Trey's a leader of men
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
To be fair
I think Zack would probably just think that’s annoying.
Even if we fans would have liked it.
by Gross(est) on Oct 4, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Felix has given up 15 unearned runs this year
Zack has nine. So the actual runs allowed difference is even bigger between the two. And that’s even though the Royals defense is a million times worse than the Mariners. Not that I expect sportswriters to notice these things.
by swing and a miss on Oct 4, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
In a non-snarky moment
I just want to say I’m glad a friend of mine turned me on to this site a few weeks ago. Y’all have made the end of this season much more bearable than it had a right to be.
by Gross(est) on Oct 4, 2009 6:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
hey, we have to laugh....cuz there's no crying in baseball...or whatever it is that the Royals are playing
by Rob5KC on Oct 4, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
An artistic representation of Royals '09.....there appears to be at least some crying
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Oct 4, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
welcome to the site...
I hope to see you around
by royalsreview on Oct 4, 2009 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
we need to trade Hillman to the Twins for Punto
the Twins owe it to us
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 6:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The Twins need to send a case of PBR to every player on the Royals team
Your welcome
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Oct 4, 2009 6:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Important safety tip: if you’re so buzzed on PBR that your cheeks have gone red, it’s time to put down the bowling ball.
by 2X2L on Oct 4, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
usually sending crappy beer is an insult
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
whoa there
be careful what you say about the pbr
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by slayor on Oct 4, 2009 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why no offseason moves yet?
I mean they need to GET FREAKING BUSY making moves. At least release Guillen Bloomquist, Buck, Gordon, Teahen, Hernandez, Farnsworth, Wright, Colon, Mahay, Yabuta, Davies, Chen….Seriously, just release all of these guys. I bet 2/3’s of them would never play again in organized baseball. If nothing else they would make a great nucleus for the 2010 T bones.
by Olentangy on Oct 4, 2009 6:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow , I forgot the most obvious one...Jacobs!
by Olentangy on Oct 4, 2009 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And Bale
He and Jacobs are 1 and 2 on my list of people DM might realistically get rid of, since we all know he is not letting of Hoagy and his 12 million.
by swing and a miss on Oct 4, 2009 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
don't want to distract people from the playoffs by making quick moves
Hoping that the Tigers fire Leyland and steal Trey Hillman from the Royals
by BHWick on Oct 4, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love this
It sounds like a blogger being witty, but when you think about it carefully… Yeah. Ditch the lot of them.
by LaFLamme on Oct 5, 2009 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
eagerly awaiting our run at 73 wins in 2010
where's ross gload to explode the process?
by blue bandwagon on Oct 4, 2009 9:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Its truley a sad day...
Baseball is over (at least Royals wise) and now I have to wait 8 months for Entourage again… Oh man.
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Oct 5, 2009 12:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Thank god...
it is over… this season has been like picking a scab over and over. It hurts and then bleeds and then scabs over for the next go around. I have been up at the lake for two weeks so have been forced to watch or listen to the Twins side of things. In April I was hoping that it would be the Royals in playoffs. What is that you say Dayton… Guillen’s injury was the turning point. Yeah, right… The bleeding has stopped and now we can set back and watched Dayton do nothing over the offseason and prepare for another year of Royals baseball. Yes, I need a break from all this fun.
by grudz96 on Oct 5, 2009 12:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As dissapointing as this season was...
…it did have its share of exciting moments. The 18-11 start made the month of April and most of May exciting to watch. (How fun would it be to be in a true pennant race all year???) Watching Greinke dominate, seeing Butler turn into a solid hitter, Bannister prove he can be a good major league pitcher, and watch Dayton Moore steal Scott Pioli’s “process” mantra, this season never ceased to be intriguing.
While the Royals have pretty much zero cap room this offseason (since they “went for it all” this year) I think this team will be very similar come April. If they were in any other division is baseball, they’d have no shot to win. Since they’re in the AL central, you just never know……
Here’s to hoping Zack wins the Cy Young…… it’s going to be close but I think he’s the sentimental favorite to win it nationwide.
by jjbjhawk on Oct 5, 2009 12:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
2009
Just like that, it’s over. I can’t believe I’ll miss the Royals, but I will. Horrific season and yet I’m depressed. I’m still of the opinion that we need to fire Trey to make things better, but whatever. I can go to bed and dream of perfect managers and such. What matters is that when I wake up tomorrow, there will be post-season hype on the tube and we won’t be part of it. I’ll be a baseball fan first and a Royals fan second. Whoopee freaking doo. What completely blows is that this year, the Central division was completely up for grabs, and we couldn’t rise up to grab it. We couldn’t get off our knees long enough to even pretend. We just sucked and kept getting suckier.
Boogeyman for the whole season? I think we should all name one. For me, it’s Hillman: Trey Hillman is the biggest crappy cog in our machine of suck. Hillman is the grain of sand that gets into the system and over time causes the engine to go: GUH-GUH-GACK! If I were the type of vindictive prick to really try to blame someone, it would be Hillman. My, how I hate Trey Hillman.
Close runner up: Mark Teahan. Teahan killed so many rallies and sucked in so many key moments, I think of him as the Anti-Royal. Al Pacino would portray Mark Teahan if a movie was made about a baseball player who sucked so bad, Christians deemed him the Anti-Christ. Teahan may be a decent ballplayer someday, but please, please, please let it be somewhere else.
I’m done. Have a great winter, everybody.
by LaFLamme on Oct 5, 2009 1:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Consistent you are
about that imaginary Teahan guy.
by 2X2L on Oct 5, 2009 8:41 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Following the Royals
can cause mental difficulties. :)
by hunter s. royal on Oct 5, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We stank this year
except for Zack, Soria, and Butler. And I mean stank. Like the trash bins behind the fish market on Sunday afternoon. Like a backed-up sewer. Like a flat ex-skunk pancaked along the roadside of I-29. Like a migrant worker’s armpit after fourteen hours in the fields. Like the gastric results of a meal of garbanzos, pinto beans, and cauliflower. Like concentrated cat piss.
I have no idea what to do for next season except get rid of all the bad players, which would leave us with about four pitchers, the right side of the infield, and the ghost of Alex Gordon. Getting rid of the bad manager might help. Having a GM who doesn’t acquire overpriced free agents and sign decaying washed-up veterans would, too.
Maybe American baseball fans will need to get used to watching a very unbalanced league, like European soccer leagues. In Spain, either Barcelona or Real Madrid wins the title 90% of the time. Occasionally someone like Valencia or Atlético Madrid sneaks in and wins it, but that’s rare. If you root for someone besides the Big Two, who have payrolls of some $150-200 million, you’re rooting for your team to win a few games, score some nice goals, not get embarrassingly blown out when facing the big boys, and come in fifth or sixth (it’s a 20-team league), while not finishing in the last three spots and getting demoted to Second Division. But you have no hopes of being competitive with the real big teams, ever, and you know and accept this.
Maybe we’d better do the same, and begin to consider a season in which we don’t finish last in the division as successful.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
by Juancho on Oct 5, 2009 4:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Colorful :)
“And I mean stank. Like the trash bins behind the fish market on Sunday afternoon. Like a backed-up sewer. Like a flat ex-skunk pancaked along the roadside of I-29. Like a migrant worker’s armpit after fourteen hours in the fields. Like the gastric results of a meal of garbanzos, pinto beans, and cauliflower. Like concentrated cat piss.”
by sterlingice on Oct 5, 2009 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's a pity
that the Royals couldn’t take one win from its last series at the Metrodome ;). The Royals were again good against the Tigers. I have a soft spot for them so I can’t be angry.
Zack Greinke for AL Cy Young, no question about that. Happy Offseason for all Royals Fans and a good season 2010.
Greetings from Germany. Dirk
by Germantiger on Oct 5, 2009 10:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Where at in Germany?
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Oct 6, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Göttingen, Lower Saxony
Greetings from Germany. Dirk
by Germantiger on Oct 7, 2009 5:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Holy Crap...
i studied in Saxony… Freiberg.
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Oct 9, 2009 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
However...
I just found out that Lower Saxony and Saxony are not the same thing.
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Oct 9, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You are right ;)
Saxons have a “dialect” but Lower Saxons are speaking (high/standard) German ;)
Greetings from Germany. Dirk
by Germantiger on Oct 10, 2009 9:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I also burn myself with cigarettes
First thing I did upon awakening today was try to remember if the Royals have an afternoon or a night game.
by LaFLamme on Oct 5, 2009 1:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
ouch... you have to get out more... maybe a hobby
like knife collecting would work for you.
by grudz96 on Oct 5, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Took your advice
Now collecting the bodies of hookers in my basement.
by LaFLamme on Oct 5, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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