Royal Bullpen & General Incompetence Saves Cleveland's Season

Win the game we shouldn’t and lose the two that we should’ve won. The team is starting to play at their talent level. Hitters are average at best, defense is poor and bullpen is up and down and probably below average without Soria, starting pitchers are still good though and hopefully they can keep us close to .500 which is what we expected in the first place. Detroit is hot and probably gonna start building that lead unless somehow we get hot against STL and comeback and play well against them. Not extremely likely though.

no posts with pics of weed in this thread.

4th btw

no not really

how blind does that guy have to be?

23,095 seems like less than I was expecting from what I saw there. Maybe this team needs to not charge $16 for the fringes of View Level Infield.

And standing in front of the fountains is fucking glorious. I love that we now have a marsh pit by the statues in right field. One of these days, the fans WILL mosh.

Jose Guillen is fucking slow.
Kyle Farnsworth still sucks.

And we need a better bullpen

We are a very mediocre team in a very mediocre division. Nothing on our roster says we should expect to win these games all the time. Look at the game on Tuesday, another mediocre team butchered a good position.

We are not that good, nor is anyone else in the Central. I’m shocked people didn’t realise that.

Sorry if I’m behind on this, and I’m aware that the typical theory about certain players being “clutch” has been widely debunked.

What I’m wondering is this: There is no question that in life, certain people perform better in pressure situations than others do. This is not to say that people necessarily “elevate their game” in clutch situations, but rather just that they don’t collapse under the pressure.

So in baseball, is there conclusive evidence that there are no players who perform significantly worse in pressure situations? I know there’s not much evidence of players being able to consistently elevate their game in these situations, but the vast majority of players just play to their potential in crunch time, with typical statistical variation.

Any ideas?

we’re having a game in STL at 12:10 on Saturday?

does that mean we have to rest all our old guys for that game?

I have realized I am spending way too much of my time on this team. Not a chance in hell this team makes the playoffs. The only reasonable goal is to go .500 but if greinke fades just a hair that wont hapen either. One elite pitcher and nothing great after that since we dont know even what Meche (“the ace”) is gonna give you, whether it be his back or “conditioning”. Davies is inconsistent. Banny is AAAA hochevar blows and the bullpen with soria would be avg. but without has been pretty bad. We cant score enough runs and situational hitting is something that apparently isnt a priority. Defense has been god awful as of late too. For this team to attempt to compete everything, repeat EVERYTHING, is going to have to start going right. Is this rant out of frustration? You better believe it, with a splash of reality and lack of confidence that anything mentioned above will change anytime soon.

with some ice cubes made of dreams, and a garnish of frustration?

So while I sip away at my reality I can see my dreams disappear which will just get me frustrated that the only thing left to enjoy of my drink is that stupid garnish?

Coco Crisp couldn’t play today because of the Royal Inquisition he received from Tim the Douchebag.

Putting Jose Guillen in front of a section filled with transient drunks was someone’s idea of a joke. I’m sure Jose loves the Party Porch.

Putting Jose Guillen in front of a section filled with transient drunks was someone’s idea of a joke. I’m sure Jose loves the Party Porch.

the PA played Razor Ramon’s theme music at one point in this game for some reason.

They have a rotation of wrestling themes, it seems.

But they’re not using this for Farnsworth, yet

Being realistic is for impartial observers, fans should not give up until the fat lady sings. Sure, she’s doing warmups in the background, but how long has it been since our season wasn’t over by this point. Last year, we were in game 3 of a 12 game losing streak. I like being an optimist though few of us are left in the Royals fanbase. This team has not won a playoff game since I was four months old, yet I have supported them March through September whether they won fifty or eighty.

So if it offends you when someone tells you that you are jumping off the bandwagon, well don’t jump off or don’t ride your clubs like a bandwagon fan would. I don’t believe any of us on Royals Review to be one, since we seem to care enough to waste hours away on here. I know it’s frustrating, but if you expect wins all the time support Manchester United, it’s much easier.

Why go all crazy when we have a better team than usual (sad but true)? Sure, we should have three or four more wins, but why fret? Have a beer and tomorrow will be another game.

Last year, we were in game 3 of a 12 game losing streak.

And just yesterday we lost the ninth game out of the last 12.

Comparing this to last year is apples to dog turds. If we hadn’t run up a 9-3 stretch between April 26 and May 7, this current 3-9 stretch would be even worse.

But that answers a question all by itself. Over the last 24 games what are we? 12-12.

Exactly where we should be, and maybe even better than we deserve. We got some WINS in bunches, followed by some LOSSES in bunches.

I think if it weren’t for that fact, the “streakiness”; the comments would be different.

Wouldn’t it psychologically feel different if over the last 24 games, we won every other game? Of course it would. Getting one out of three versus Cleveland feels like getting punked by your little sister’s boyfriend.

I went to the game for the first time this season yesterday, and what struck me was how slow the Royals are in the infield, as well as Grandpa Guillen in right field. In the inning when Greinke gave up two runs, only one of those hits was well hit. There were at least two hits where an infielder with average speed has a good shot at preventing the hit. If all the infielders were hitting like Callaspo, the team could live with it. With Crisp out yesterday, you could also see the affect of not having him there to make up for Jose’s lack of range.

Inconsistant defense to go along with inconsistant offense is going wipe out the terrific job the starting pitching staff has been doing.