Boring Tuesday Fun Thread

1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
Not all professionals know what they are doing. Take advantage of the ones that don’t.

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?
You’re just trying to get me to reveal my list! I’d say right now he’s probably just outside the top 25 but he’s certainly on a track to be in the top ten.

3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?

Projectile vomit?

4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?

Jock Jamz. I think Volume 1.

5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?

I think the first time I went to Piropos back when it was in Parkville I probably paid $60. But that includes appetizer, wine, coffee and desert. I thought it was worth it.

6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?

One of my law school classmates, a sweet girl, was Seventh Day Adventist, so the wedding was on a Sunday. It started at 4 pm and the reception was at 5:30 or so, so you’d think there would be dinner. Nope. So I was completely starving. The only food they served was wedding cake and these really sweet chocolates. Have you ever eaten chocolate when you’re starving? Its terrible, it only makes you hungrier. And to compound things, we were at Crown Center on a Sunday when the food court has closed and back then there really wasn’t anything to eat anywhere nearby. It was a beautiful wedding, but I think I would have at least sprung for some finger foods.

1) I am in marketing and I have found that social medias are an excellent way for me to interact with clients, fans, etc. Listening to them express their ideas and concerns has changed at least two or three ways we offer our product. I really wish DM and Trey would read RR and act accordingly. I think they could learn a thing or two from a few of the posters here.
2) I think with the story of Greinke’s struggles off the field and his ability to overcome and have a year like 2009 puts him in the top 10 or 15 pretty easily. Ask this question in 5 years and I think you will have a unanimous top 10 consensus.
3) I would not be a Royals fan today if I had heard the truth from a time traveler in 1999. Honestly, my first reaction would have been disbelief. Then I would have started following the Rays or Rockies instead.
4) Worst album I’ve ever bought? Incubus’ A Crow Left of the Murder. Enough said.
5) I have never been one to splurge on meals, but I did purchase wine and a meal at a fine sushi restaurant for myself and the girl I was dating a little less than a year ago. I’m sure that ran me up around $60 or $80… I don’t remember.
6) I hate weddings. I can honestly say that I have only been to 4 or 5 and I don’t remember having a good time at any of them. I did have a friend (who was more like an acquaintance) call me up one day and ask me to attend his wedding. The wedding was that day and I was the only person in attendance besides him, his fiancé and his mom. I was a witness.

1. I work with elementary children, so the need for instant gratification is very apparent. Outside of that, not really.

2. Top 10 right now. Hasn’t been a career contributor to the Royals yet, but his season was one of the greatest played in a Royals uniform. That has to count, right?

3. I’d punch them in the face.

4. Oh man, not sure I can answer this one. Can’t think of anything, luckily I never wanted to spend a lot of money on music. I was content with borrowing a friend’s cd.

5. Plaza III, I think. Something like $160 bill when I was in high school, no alcohol on there.

6. Cousin was married to a serious Baptist girl a couple of summers ago. Wedding was too awful, but the reception was literally cake and punch with absolutely no music and obviously no booze. Everybody just kind of sat around being uncomfortable for about 30 minutes, then people started running out of that place.

1. I am a Civil Engineer and I have to go through several reviews before my construction plans get produced. DM should have to go through several reviews before his trades/ FAs come to fruition.
2. If ZG can perform as an elite pitcher in the AL over the remainder of his current contract, he should land in the Royal’s top 5.
3. Punch time traveller in the groin. Drink.
4. Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumper” was incredibly awful, even to a junior high version of myself.
5. I think I dropped close to $200 for my fiance and I at the Drover in Omaha. It was worth it though. Great steak, shrimp, wine, potato, salad.
6. I’ve never really been to a bad wedding. I guess a couple that didn’t have open bar weren’t ideal, but they were still fun.

1. In theory, it doesn’t seem that difficult to turn around a floundering organization. But it’s difficult and takes a special person. I hope Dayton is special.

2. #25. He’s been awesome for one year.

3. Unfortunately, I will not be surprised.

4. Baja Men- Who Let the Dogs Out? Not the single, either: the entire album.

5. ~$300 for two at Bluestem in Westport (I had the 7-course dinner with wine pairings). Best dining experience of my life. Pretty over the top, but highly recommended if you feel like blowing a lot of money on a fancy date.

6. Never been to a horrible wedding, so no good story to tell. I love weddings, but most of my friends are Catholics so the alcohol is always flowing.

intellectual humility and curiosity

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?

I think he’s nearing the Top 10, if not in it aleady. I’m partial to somewhat like Greinke, with an awesome peak of success as a Royal, over someone like Frank White, who was mostly just a Royal for a million years.

would have been surprised and not surprised… its sad that everyone else (Twins, Brewers, Rays, etc) got a taste of success, and the ROyals never did

Probably the Chris Gaines single

   5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?

I’ve spent 50-60 on a few occasions.

I went to one or two as an older kid/young teen that were just incredibly boring. I didn’t have that six year old’s love of a random shiny environment. Nor, at that age, an ability to have fun with people I didn’t know. Or relatives really. People: if you have kids between the ages of 6-18, don’t take them to weddings if you don’t have to. NO ONE is getting anything out of it.

1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
    Three phrases: 1 – Cover for me. 2 – Good Idea Boss! 3 – I dunno, it was like that when I got here.

   Seriously though, peer reviews. All big decisions get hashed out with people from all over, not the same small brain trust.

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?
  Top 10.

3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?
   Not exactly surprised, but I’d probably follow the team a lot less.

4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?
   Can’t think of one really bad one, although I do regret how much money I spent on CDs. If only napster had been around before I hit college…

5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?
   50-60/per plate at Rembrants in KC MO for prom.

6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?
   I went to a reception that was outdoors in late October. It was below freezing. Everyone was huddled around the three propane heaters.

1. I would apply the ability to publicly admit mistakes, it really helps employees buy into you; and oh yeah: NOT REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES (sorry for the shouting, but seriously, the revolving door of bad FA pickups is killing me.)

2. I will follow suit here and say #25, needs more consistency over time.

3. Would have totally believed him, that tenure of not having an owner was back breaking and very dificult to recover from. Nothing gets done via committee.

4. Stone Temple Pilots 3rd album: Little Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
So dissapointing because their previous 2 albums were freaking hit factories. I totally picked them to be my band of the 90’s; and then the rug got jerked out.

5. $110 per plate, Commander’s Palace, New Orleans. Once in a lifetime old school whiteglove dining experience, worth every penn.

6. Worst wedding in Paola Kansas. Girl I worked with and had a crush on, red headed gymnast, marrying the biggest redneck douche-bag in the world. As soon as “I do” was said he literally runs and changes into cut-off jeans and starts doing keg stands with his buddies. Didn’t dance with his wife once, as she spent the rest of the night in her gown awkwardly wandering around the barn the reception was held in. So titanically uncomfortable, but at least the BBQ and Beer was pretty kick ass.

(On a side note, saw her about a year ago and she looks 10 years older than she is, just beaten up by life; take a lesson here kids, it’s okay to wait. I have never met anyone who has regretted waiting to get married).

1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?

Job? What job?

Okay, okay, from my last job: I wish they’d learn that it’s okay to make mistakes so long as you learn from them rather than continuing to repeat them.

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?

Not even in the top ten… yet. Only because he needs more time, though. He could easily end up in the top three, and of course possibly the top one if he stays long enough and continues to excel.

3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?

“Okay, so what are the winning numbers in Tuesday’s MegaMillions, and how can I properly invest the winnings over the next three years to rake in enough money to buy the team?”

4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?

Hootie and the Blowfish, Cracked Rear View. In fairness, I “bought” it because it was a Columbia House selection I forgot to decline, and then kinda blew it off and accidentally paid for it…

5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?

I used to have a good job. With good money. And Morton’s was just around the corner from my place. Some friends and I would go eat there just about monthly, and let me tell you the $80 porterhouse was worth almost every penny.

6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?

Oh, that’s easy. BOTH OF MINE.

   1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?

Make sure the whole supporting structure is in place, before you make the big push (I work in drilling). In baseball terms, make sure you have a solid team before splashing out on expensive Free Agents in a half assed attempt to win now.

   2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?

No where very high yet. Won’t be long though.

   3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?

I’d have exhaled deeply, shook my head and entirely believed him.

   4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?

None. I’m cheap, and normally find a way to listen before I actually buy it.

   5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?

About $80 USD, at a restaurant in London, England a few years back.

   6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?

My Brother’s. No one should get married in Saskatoon in February. I kid. I’m lucky, every wedding I have been to has been a very happy and joyous occasion.

Love these. I vote that there be a mandatory one every Tuesday.

Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
I work for the government (your tax dollars funding this post!). So no.

Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?
Talent-wise he’s in the top ten, maybe top five. Performance-wise I think he’ll end up in the top ten for sure, with a good chance of being the best (context-neutral) pitcher in team-history. He already owns the best single season. He’ll have trouble with the counting stats if he doesn’t stay beyond the four year extension, particularly in categories like starts and innings with the five man rotation.

In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?
Like I react to any Dayton Moore transaction: not particularly surprised, but depressed/revolted all the same.

What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?
I bought a tape of the spice girls wannabe single when I was like twelve years old.

What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?
100 euros (~$140) for a meal in Paris. Perhaps the best meal I’ve ever eaten that I didn’t make myself. This was a set price/menu meal that included before dinner drinks, hors d’oeuvres, appetizers, multiple wines, multiple meal courses, desert, after dinner drinks, coffee, etc. Meal took about four hours. Stateside I had a forty dollar meal at the peppercorn duck club for prom in high school. No booze, but a great meal. Multiple courses and whatnot still. Probably not worth the forty bucks for a meal with no wine, but it was still quite good.

What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?
My own.

I have never commented before, but have read a bunch. I am not much of a blogger but enjoy reading people’s opinions. I had to post on this one though, just to share my wedding story. I can’t do it justice, but it was pretty awful. Anyways…

1) Ecologist/farmer: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket (Guillen)…uh don’t count your chickens before they hatch (maybe this relates to negotiating the market last offseason). Something to do with eggs.

2)One more really good year and he is in the top ten. If he is on a Royals playoff team ever, top five

3)Honestly I probably wouldn’t have invested as much time in being a baseball fan in general.

4) Alanis Morissette, jagged little pill. I tell everybody that it was my sisters.

5) I have paid up to $60 a couple of times. Most of the time it is worth it. I once spent $40ish at a steakhouse in Chicago. The steak was tough and they put ‘fried onions’ ontop of it which turned out to be too much like the canned fried onion things you put on casseroles.

6)Worst wedding:

My brother-in-law got married in Naples, Florida. He was 21 and the bride was 29 (28 maybe) I was a groomsman. This was such a bad experience. My wife and I met up with him a couple of days before the wedding in Florida. He immediately informed me that I would have to rent a tux for the wedding after he had told me (and I reaffirmed) that it was taken care of. I thought that was fishy and should have known better, but I was young and didn’t have any money. He then told me that it was $130 tux. I mean come on. So there went half of the money I brought to spend in Florida for four days. We then went to meet the new in-laws.

That night we tried to find a beach to hang out at but, it seemed that all of the beaches in Naples were private.

The next day we were to meet my brother-in-law’s new in-laws at a little private beach party. I am an environmentalist, right, and there were these ducks hanging around. They weren’t hurting anything or being annoying in any way. The first thing the bride’s mother said to me was ‘sorry about the ducks, the environmentalists won’t let us kill them".

The rehearsal was uncomfortable as the bride’s mom was running the show and very bossy. The priest went on a long discussion of how he used to be great friends with the Bride and how funny the fates are and how the choices we make…He obviously used to have a crush on her (don’t know why).

My mother-in-law set up the rehearsal dinner, so that actually went well.

The day of the wedding, the groom was running late…Well, I mean he wasn’t there 2 hours before it began. The bride’s father asked her where the groom was and she said "I think he is on is way" at which he said "You think or you know" very rudely.
At the end of the wedding, the bride wanted to several takes of them exiting and everyone throwing rice (or whatever it was) on them. So they did their big exit three times.

We got lost going to the reception and they freaked out on us. We had to run from the car to the reception hall and walk in to the party while the DJ played "yall ready for this" while our names were announced.

It was a Lutheran wedding. I don’t know what that means exactly except for the DJ could only play songs that glorified HIS name.

My mother-in-law got it worse though. The reason the groom was late was because his car broke down. The other two groomsmen were going to drive it back to Missouri the next day. Since they could no longer do that, she had to get them to the airport by 7:00 am the next day. They ended up leaving at 4:00 in the morning the next day. Oh, and the groom asked his mother the night before the wedding for hotel fair for the three days before and after the honeymoon. Apparently he had run out of money (my guess at a strip club).

There was so much more that I can’t remember right now. It was so bad we wrote it all down and kept for record all of the rude or funny quotes people said. It is really funny to go back through all of those quotes.

The groom has since divorced and remarried.

Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
Money is a terrible thing to waste.

Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?
Gotta be Top 10 for his story alone. Goes from almost mowing lawns and quitting baseball to having one of the all-time great pitcher seasons? That’s a movie folks.

In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?
I would have quit while I was ahead.

What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?
Not sure. Probably some crappy local punk band’s CD from a concert of theirs I attended. For $5 though, I could probably argue I got what I was expecting.

What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?
$100 total for my wife and I a few times. Nothing special.

What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?
A former co-worker of my wife’s had her wedding in this huge church that wasn’t even 25% full. Then we went to the reception afterward which consisted of a huge rented space with tables bunched needlessly and it was an appetizer buffet, no meal.

1.Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?

Right. I’m a student and I study English. Umm… do homework? No, I did just fine without doing homework. Read James Joyce’s Ulysses? Yeah, they should do that.

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?

Top 20, I imagine. He’s already, what, like the 5th best pitcher? I’d say he’ll be in the top 10 before long.

3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?

I’d question why he’s come to tell me that.

4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?

 Never bought a lot of music. I like my radio.
 
5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?

 I’m not one to spend that much money. No more than $40 at some Italian restaurant after some high school dance.

6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?

Only attended my brother’s wedding, and I was mad I wasn’t his best man.

Wow, my answeres are boring.

   1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
 Don’t always listen to your teachers/mentors

   2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?

Top 15 right now…he easily could move up to #2 depending on how it all shakes out though.

   3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?

One of the things that has gotten me through this decade has been hope. In 2003, it felt long enough away that we would have a chance to contend in 2005-2006, then in 05-06 it felt like we might have a shot in 08-09, now we are hoping enough breaks right to compete in 2011-2012. Suffice to say, as a 12 yo kid living 2000 miles or so from KC, telling me that just might have been enough to make me a Giants/A’s fan today.

   4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?

American Idiot

   5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?
I took my girlfriend out to a decent sushi place and it ran me 70 bucks. Was definitely worth it though.

   6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?
Haven’t been to enough as a person older than 14 to say

1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn? Not working, I should borrow from grudz96, and say, “don’t work, boys, until you go back to school.” On the other hand, I sort of “work” at FanGraphs, which would be either tremendous for the Royals front office or awesomely hilarious.

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time? Ask me again in three years when his Royals career is over. It’s not that high now, but probably higher than I’d think

3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted? I would never have gotten into baseball like I have the last couple years.

4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought? Hmm… I’m pretty picky… Albums that I’ve bought? I’ve been given some terrible ones. As for those I’ve bought, like Dayton, I adhere to such a strict process that I’ve never bought a bad one. I guess I was pretty disappointed as a teenager when I bought Judas Priest’s Stained Class, but it’s not like I blew my own head off or anything.

5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for? Canoe in Toronto. Can’t remember, at least $250 a person, and we took it easy. Hard to say whether or not it was worth it, but it was the among the best meals I’ve ever had, perhaps the best.

6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended? I am usually just bored at weddings. As for the wedding itself, well, objectively speaking… It was the best day of my life, and I would still say that, but if I’d been a guest, my own wedding would have to been one of the worst to sit through. We were so young and idealistic. Just overly long, pretentious, involving too many people.. nothing went wrong, it’s just that I cringe when I think about what people had to do and sit through to make it happen. We have some great family and friends, and after that, I’m surprised we still do.

Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn? Hiring employees with ugly resumes is a bad idea.

Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?
I’m more curious to know where Greinke’s 2009 ranks among the greatest single seasons of any Royal. I think it’s tops among pitchers, probably close to Brett’s 1980?

In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?
I’d hav cryogenically frozen my fandom to be unfrozen in a year to be determined (sort of like the current state of my Chiefs fandom).

What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?
I bought that Winger tape with “She’s only seventeen…chorus: SEVENTEEN!…Daddy says she’s too young, but she’s old enough for me!” circa 1988. Bought it right off the shelf.

What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?
Still paying for my wife’s birthday at Daniel in NYC.

What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?
The one that didn’t include Eddie Money in the DJ’s dancemix

I occasionally travel for work and get to spend the meal per diem for the area, which is usually far above what I’d normally spend on meals. You’re more or less encouraged to spend every dollar available, because you don’t get to keep it.

A lesson I’ve learned the hard way: Get something you like.

I almost always make the mistake of trying something new under the premise that I’m not paying for it anyway. After seeing the food arrive, I’m almost always disappointed I didn’t go with the steak or lobster.

Insight from work – a basic understanding of data and statistics…..how it’s useful and how it’s dangerous…..they actually only seem aware of the how it’s dangerous

Greinke – My heart says #3, my brain says around #20

Time traveler – I would say….damn, I was afraid of that.

Worst album – DMX Hell is Hot….I bought the edited version by mistake….essentially the entire disk was edited with mutes of the curse words.

Expensive Meal – Some Brazilian Churascarra in Manhattan…I think 59.50 plus drinks.

Worst Wedding – Every single one of my mom’s.

1.I’m in Grad School…maybe they should all drink more?
2. 2009 was my first season with this franchise…so #2 after Gil Meche
3. I wasn’t a fan in 1999!
4. Yes- Tales from Topographic Oceans (and they’re my favorite band)
5. £20
6. The last one I attended!

 1. The insight that I have from my job is that even though someone may make more than you, they don’t necessarily know more than you… i.e. The sabermatrician/janitor/coffee jockey/copy boy may know more about good player acquisitions than GMDM himself

2. To be completely honest my historical perspective of Royals isn’t the best, and Ive decided Im going to projcet that Greinke gets awesomer… So I will say when its all said and done Top 5

3. I would have made fun of the “crazy time traveler guy” and then throw rocks at the guy

4. I haven’t actually bought a cd/tape/minidisc in so long I can’t remember the last bad one I got.

5. When I was young my Parents took me to Disney World and we ate at the Restaurant under the sea, they had splurged for the “Mickey Pass” which is just when all your meals are pre-paid. Well the bill was $400 (back in 91) and i was allowed to swipe the Mickey card… And if that one doesn’t count, I had a job interview in Texas a couple weeks ago and was put up in a pretty kick ass hotel with a pretty fantastic steak house at the top… Well the night before the interview I treated myself to a steak and a beer… Cost me $67.

6. If I have been to any awful weddings I wouldn’t remember because I tend to get pretty smashed at the receptions.

What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?
What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?
What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?

1. Ok, the first thing is cost benefit analysis. As an IE, i have to shove this down everyone’s throats all day. Things like optimization, “process” haha, and standards too. There is a best way, you just have to find it. That being said your mind usually isn’t capable of taking all the variables into account and computer programs are the only way to go. People have a hard time accepting that they are not capable though.

To steal from Top Ramen, never say “it was here when I got here” or “we’ve been doing it this way for 30 years”. Don’t confuse experience with knowledge/intelligence boys, it can get you in trouble.

If you have a way that things work best, do them that way. I get “this is the way I do it” all day from operators who are slowing the line.
2. I started being a fan in 1991, so since I’ve been around we have the tail ends of Brett and White, and the tenures of Sweeney, Beltran, Randa. (I always liked randa) Who else Appier? Cone? He’s gotta be top 5.

3. I’ve been a big fan since 1991, so I guess I assumed it would be like this. I’ve never known winning. I figured we would have a Rays/Marlins “run” by now, but I’ve never expected us to be consistently good. Other teams have better tools than we do, so we should never been consistently better, as they should be able to implement our superior processes with their better tools and overtake us again. (I’m a nerdy IE, sorry for the lingo)

4. I got Hanson’s album sometime in the 1990’s as a gift. Terrible, it was used as a frisbee at some point, just like how I used all those free AOL cd’s.

5. When i was a sophomore in high school, my date ordered the shrimp and lobster at the Hereford House. I was pretty pissed at the time, but it ended up being really funny and one of my best moments of high school. A couple of years later at graduation her dad came up to me, said he was sorry, patted me on the back and laughed at her. Great.
It was something like 50 for her meal and 25 or 30 for mine.
6. Weddings with loser dj’s suck. I guess the worst wedding I’ve been to really wasn’t that bad at all, but unfortunately I got cut off by my mother at the open bar because she saw me holding 2 beers. One of which was for the bride, (she didn’t want to wait in line and i was being nice) but she didn’t believe me. haha

1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
Straight from the math curriculum——Negative + Negative does not equal a Positive. Or in the Royals’ case, Negative + Negative + Negative + Negative +……

   
2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time? Top 20 maybe? He’s got more time to go.
  
3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted? Not too surprised….we’d been bad, ownership/management was in disarray, etc.

   4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought? I was sent a Tori Amos & Kid Rock CD from Columbia House that I sold/gave away/buried until piles of garbage in my room.

   5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for? Great question. I honestly can’t remember anything over $15….and those are pizzas. How lame is that?
  
 6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended? The one where the poor ring bearer guy kept falling flat on his face over and over and over every time he tried to take a step. He was just learning to walk, apparently. On second thought, that might be the funniest wedding I’ve ever attended.

1. Is there any insight or practice from your job that you wish the Royals would learn?
Peer-review is an amazing thing, oh, and making decisions based on Data gathered previously, not watching something and making a guess

2. Where do you put Greinke on the list of the Greatest Royals of all time?
Top 30, but let’s wait and see what he can continue to do, he can easily get up to the top 10 if he can string a couple more good seasons

3. In 1999 a time traveler tells you what the next ten years of Royals baseball would be like. How would you have reacted?
Is this time traveler one Keanu Reeves? If he was, I’d be pissed off. But I guess it wouldn’t change the fact that I am a Royals fan, or the fact that after punching Keanu in the face I would still do the air guitar for Wild Stallionz

4. What is the worst album/tape/CD/minidisk you ever bought?

Snapcase………ugh

5. What is the most expensive meal, per person/plate, you’ve ever paid for?

El Gaucho in Bell-town, Seattle. 210.00 for two. Of course there was the mandatory bottle of Pinot Nior that comes with having steaks with Mrs. MVPRoC. So take the bottle out and it would be knocked down around where most people are at. It was a steak on par with Grand Street, or Plaza III, or even some of the Montana steakhouses I’ve been too, like the Oasis.

6. What is the worst wedding you’ve ever attended?

Long time ago a wedding for my then gfs, best guy friend. Whom all thought would marry my gf at the time…..it was awkward to say the least. But……other than that, they have all had there moments of ‘really?’ to differing degrees.

Hey, it’s gonna happen when something as complicated as all the plans that are required for a wedding run, need to come together with a large number of people that may or may not like each other.