To Hate Like This is to be Willie Bloomquist Forever
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 2:14 PM EDT
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The Mariners and Royals resume their epochal battle for the soul of America this week, and lo and behold, they're both in first place. Like you expected anything else?
And so another chapter begins in this grand rivalry. Time for another crush of national media, a double-shot of nationally televised games, and another 72 hours of pure drama for the two most diametrically opposed fan-bases in this ancient, pastoral, holy, nation-defining game.
Nobody would have it any either way.
All true baseball fans, be they in Baltimore or Buena Vista, worship at the altar of this rivalry. If anything, just as the nation begs for more Duke-Carolina coverage and hype every spring, they want more. They want to learn more about baseball and, to be honest, a little more about life, from those fans in Seattle who call themselves The Nation and from the grand custodians of the game's history, the Royals. Who among us has not looked out over the Kingdome in the 7th inning of a Battle for Grass Creek game and not seen, at once, both themselves, and the smiling face of God?
I feel sorry for those lesser fans, as I'm sure the people in Seattle do. All we can do about is to keep being important.
Dayton Moore, known to most as a placid man, wants to crush the Mariners. He wants to grind their bones into powder and sprinkle it into their widows' coffee. He wants to do to Seattle what Chile did to Bolivia, he wants to be Rome to their Carthage.
Moore is on a mission, he is the grand Cincinnatus of the Eastern Empire, and thanks to Buster Olney's 700-page character study of him released just last week we now how deep his hatred for Mariner teal runs. Moore's hatred is a bitter one, tinged with respect. He knows the Mariner way works, but it makes his blood boil to see it do so. So with all the enmity of an ex-wife, he's worked to transplant the Mariner way to the Royals.
Strengthen yourself and weaken your enemy in one move, and you shall reap the rewards of the smiling octopus...
Moore has those words, from a long-lost Laotian text on strategy, tattooed to his wife's lower back. From day one as the head of the Royals he's chiseled away at the edifice of the Mariner insurgency (and he views it with that same sense of disdain, as something out of bounds). Not that anyone needs reminding, but he's turned Gil Meche, Miguel Olivo, Jose Guillen and Horacio Ramirez from Mariners to Royals.
Those moves were the prelude to the salvo delivered this winter, when Moore ripped the beating pancreas out of the twitching body of the Mariner body politic: he signed Willie Bloomquist.
You don't have to be as smart as Bob Costas (and man is he smart) to see what's going on here.
Who embodies the Mariner Nation more than Willie Bloomquist?
Bloomquist knows how important these games are. After seven seasons in Seattle, Bloomquist has achieved everything that anybody's ever bothered to give out awards for, not that he gives a damn about those things. No. The magical three double campaign in 2007 that had America glued to her televisions? Good luck trying to get him to talk about it. No, Willie wants to talk about one thing and one thing only: winning. In a sad time when 99.9% of baseball players don't even pay attention to their team's score or record they just play for themselves... I blame the schools. Bloomquist is old-school. An old-school, team-first, winning-only Mariner. And that's what he did: he won. He's a winner or the highest order.
Only now he's a Royal.
It still looks weird on the page, doesn't it?
So what did the Mariners do? They went out and signed Mike Sweeney. This is like that time Coach K did something, then Tyler Hansborough's dad did something back. Oh, mercy! This is bitter!
All week, Grass Creek Wyoming, the traditional dividing line between these two teams, has been abuzz. When, Guillen and Ho-Ram switched teams, well that was one thing. When Bloomquist traded in his space needle for fountains, it was like a baseball bomb went off across Wyoming: jersey sales, media chatter, fistfights, everything increased.
If you're one of Wyoming's six employers, good luck having your workers get anything done this week.
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Willie's hit and run last night
Was not unlike watching Atlantis rise again from the sea, the bones of its kings new-covered with flesh.
Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com
by RoyalsRetro on May 6, 2009 2:18 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
the only thing keeping the Mariners afloat without Bloomquist
has been Griffey’s veteran leadership
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can't believe I'm going to miss this game
It’s going to be epic, if epic means throwing out two overweight replacement starters into a meat grinder that is the Royals and Mariners lineups.
Alas, I’m going to see Murder By Death tonight. Let’s hope our girth outweighs theirs tonight, and we can win another game without playing fundamentally sound defensive baseball.
"It’s not about the guacamole itself," Greinke said. "I just don’t want to let them win."
by lobes on May 6, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
My buddies are opening for them thursday in St. Louis,
by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on May 6, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Shit, they're playing in St. Louis now
I shouldn’t buy tickets so far in advance.
"It’s not about the guacamole itself," Greinke said. "I just don’t want to let them win."
by lobes on May 6, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What band?
"It’s not about the guacamole itself," Greinke said. "I just don’t want to let them win."
by lobes on May 6, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just make sure
to put the women and children to bed tonight before the epic battle resumes. I hear that the Grass Creek city council is considering an ordinance making any Royals-Mariners series a local holiday.
“Is this not what you came for? Are you not entertained?”
-You play to win the game - Herm Edwards
by truebluetradition on May 6, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Come on 7:10
I’m gonna rip my eyes out if it doesn’t hurry!
by kansasjhawk044 on May 6, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
No, Willie will rip your eyes out!
-You play to win the game - Herm Edwards
by truebluetradition on May 6, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bravo!!!
Some of your finest work yet. Let’s hope ESPN doesn’t rip it off again.
by djk royal on May 6, 2009 2:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That was indeed, magnificent. Epic, if I may say so. Truly a cornerstone work of literature in the Grass Creek struggle.
I have a feeling I will be reading it to my grandchildren someday.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on May 6, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
did sweeney return to the K last year or will this be his first time?
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think he returned last year
But he was in a full body cast.
Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com
by RoyalsRetro on May 6, 2009 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sweeney was 0-5 vs. KC last year in his return
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KCA/KCA200809041.shtml
Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com
by RoyalsRetro on May 6, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
no.
that can’t be…
I've got crazy flipper fingers!
by labbadabba on May 6, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The "K" now stands for Kryptonite to SuperSweeney
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on May 6, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I believe this will be his first return as a non-injured
member of an opposing team…
I've got crazy flipper fingers!
by labbadabba on May 6, 2009 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Will Sweeney ever be considered "non-injured"
by Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal) on May 6, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
only in heaven
but only until he tries to swing a bat
-You play to win the game - Herm Edwards
by truebluetradition on May 6, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jacobs' homer last night
finally put his wOBA ahead of Sweeney’s for the first time in a while.
The new guy gets it!
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Imagine if Sweeney had only experience the masterful teachings of Sensei Seitzer
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on May 6, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
it's hard to say
after all, we’ve never actually seen Sweeney get tutored by Seitzer while wearing Royal Blue. As I understand it, there’s no way to tell whether a player is good or not until we actually see him play in a Royals uniform, regardless of the past, age. etc. It’s just a total crapshoot.
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Patently false
Sweeney was tremendous in 2005. Thus, a 2005 Sweeney combined with Kevin Seitzer equals some kind of non-roidal walking, doubling, .450 OBPing machine.
by Top Ramen on May 6, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Royals will plow down the Mariners
As if they were a bunch of wimp-ass Persian archers facing Alexander’s phalanges. Or the Polish cavalry trying to stand against the Wehrmacht. Or the Austrians against Frederick or Napoleon or Suleiman or Gustavus or anybody else who had a real army. The Communards against the regular army from Versailles. Or the wooden-walled Spanish navy facing American ironclads at Santiago and Manila.
It’s gonna be ugly, people. It’s gonna be Iwo Jima meets Gettysburg. The casualties will be immense. The wailing of the widows and orphans will be heard throughout the nation.
I picture Bloomy as Joshua Chamberlain.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
by Juancho on May 6, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Don't call me Lawrence
Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.
by BillyMojo on May 6, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Seattle... land of cowards
First, the Pilots fled to Milwaukee, then the Seattle “Brewers” flee KC’s division for the “National League” (whatever that is). The the Seahawks fled KC’s football division for the “NFC,” and add neon green to their uniforms to hide their shame. Then the SuperSonics fled to “Oklahoma City” (definitely not a real place).
by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on May 6, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
They're the Mariners. This is Midway.
And we’ve just caught them with their planes refueling on the decks of their carriers. The Rising Sun sets within forty-five minutes.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
by Juancho on May 6, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Mariners rule the heavens and the seas - the Royals are bound to the earth.
Your allusions to Alexander, the Austrians, Gettysberg, and the on-the-ground fighting of World War Two reveal the Royals’ fatal weakness. The Royals have ceded control of the skies to the ones who already control the seas: the Mariners. Your Overlord Dayton Moore is intent on refighting the wars of previous generations: wars determined by grit, batting average, stolen bases, errors, and “playing the game right” The most powerful satraps of Royals Review like NYRoyals, royal review, and marbotty, even through intoxicated on the hubris all attest to this: for Emperor Moore, his officials, and his armies, finding talent is “all based on how [they] look.” the players “‘must have manface,’” and the talent evaluation approach is “100% in the scouting/tools, ‘have to see the player play’ mode of evalution.” You make the mistakes and hire the cast-offs of Bavasi and let his mind infect your own with with bad process akin to this – Farnsworth! A name that sends children running home crying to their mothers. You will be the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry charging the Italian and French bunkers, the Polish Cavalry charging the Panzers.
Jack Zduriencik, despite his Ahab-like, monomaniacal pursuit of with power arms for the bullpen, understands this: that air-power is the future. At his side stands the Karl von Clauswitz of the Age: Tom Tango. He is the visionary leadership of Billy Mitchell combined with the logistical and organizational ingenuity of George C. Marshall. As Billy Mitchell said: “If a nation ambitious for universal conquest gets off to a flying start in a war of the future, it may be able to control the whole world more easily than a nation has controlled a continent in the past.” Commander Zduriencik has turned the outfield into The Valley of Death for opposing lineups – a three centerfielder nightmare. GMZ knows that Franklin Gutierrez, better known as Death to Flying Things, will be the death of the Royals’ lineup.
Before you scoff and brandish your cereal-monikered centerfielder, remember that Coco has a UZR/150 of 10.8 from 2007-present in about 2,300 innings, whereas Frutierrez has a UZR/150 of 23.9 from 2007-present in about 1,800 innings. Jose Guillsen has a minus 7.2 UZR in the same time frame. The Mariners, meanwhile, have Endy Chavez (of “the Catch” fame) and a living nightmare from the far east to destroy opposing lineups’ birthdays.
Meche, Grienke, and Gordon are still cool, though. But nevermind that! To the victor go the spoils!
by Decatur on May 6, 2009 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You are not welcome here.
Not on this day.
"You know what, I mean I cried in bed for a while, moaning 'Why!? Why did this have to happen?'"
Zack Greinke on the Brad Pitt - Jennifer Aniston split
by DCRoyals on May 6, 2009 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you're serious, I apologize.
I loved the post and wanted to contribute to the silliness. I’ve been rooting for the Royals since the season began (not over the Mariners, obviously, but genuinely rooting for them), and I followed the game thread yesterday. If I stepped over the line with this, again, apologies, but no harm was intended.
by Decatur on May 6, 2009 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't want to speak for him
but I think he was just getting in the spirit of the rivalry.
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
by mazoboom on May 6, 2009 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, it's obviously all in fun
die mariner scum
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the only good mariner...
is a dead mariner
we will turn your navy into a fleet of prison ships
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am very sorry
Did not mean to come across as serious.
But seriously, you’re not welcome here.
"You know what, I mean I cried in bed for a while, moaning 'Why!? Why did this have to happen?'"
Zack Greinke on the Brad Pitt - Jennifer Aniston split
by DCRoyals on May 7, 2009 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Absolutely phenomenal
"You know what, I mean I cried in bed for a while, moaning 'Why!? Why did this have to happen?'"
Zack Greinke on the Brad Pitt - Jennifer Aniston split
by DCRoyals on May 6, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I would like to see that tattoo
-You play to win the game - Herm Edwards
by truebluetradition on May 6, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought I read that Griffey is out due to illness...
so that can only help us, at least. I like Willie Bloomquist. The more I look into the Royals and see how they’re piecing their team together I get a comparisson to the Chiefs and Scott Pioli. They’re both bringing in a team-first, hard-nosed, fight to the final batter, type of attitude to the teams and helping the players bond together and be as 1 team and not several players signed under a contract calling themselves Royals or Chiefs.
The major difference, and it could be due also to the way football and baseball differs with the way the psychie of the game is played, is the type of HC/Managers they have. Todd Haley is an old-school, Parcells-mimic hard as nails type that wants smart tough players to hit hard and do their job and only be on the team if they truley want to be a Kansas City Chief.
Hillman was much softer than that, helping the players bond with each other and letting the crowd rile up the players to be that hard as nails type at the games, but also wants smart, tough players that can work through the entire game with intelligence, stamina, and thinking team first. Their major differnce is how the approach the players and Hillman is the perfect manager for our team. He’s smart, knows how to evaluate talent, and lets the players do what their good at, while building up what they’re not. I love this rivalry (especially being in Alaska with so many Mariner’s fans) and I can’t wait to watch this game to see how it all plays out.
There's no hope with dope...
by chrisjo07 on May 6, 2009 2:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Seemingly
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on May 6, 2009 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes I am...
and I hate, hate, HATE…the Mariners. It didn’t bother me when I first moved up here over 3 years ago…but now it’s gotten to the point where that’s all you’ll hear about on the news and from the tons of fans up here. It sucks.
There's no hope with dope...
by chrisjo07 on May 6, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There are a lot of ways to describe Hillman
In our mind, “fan of Kyle Farnsworth” would come before all the attributes you listed, but that’s just us.
by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on May 6, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Speak for yourself
Just because the Hillman haters are vociferous, doesn’t mean they’re the only opinions on this site.
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
by mazoboom on May 6, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
everyone already knows this but:
Born in 1967 in Wichita, Kansas, Moore grew up a Royals fan. He claims to have watched the 1985 World Series in Kansas City from I-70. 1 He played baseball at Garden City Community College before graduating from George Mason University in 1989, with an undergraduate degree in Physical Education and Health. Dayton served as an assistant baseball coach at George Mason from 1990 to 1994. In 1992, Moore received a master’s degree in Athletic Administration from George Mason.
(wiki)
So I really think he wants the Royals to play like the team he (and I) grew up watching. 70’ and 80’s Royals. Just as you said. Come from behind, it ain’t over till it’s over cliche cliche cliche.
Lately that’s what we’ve been seeing; except when Zack’s on the mound and he covers all the nastiness well enough on his own.
Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.
by BillyMojo on May 6, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
oops what was I thinking you were talking about Hillman
And I was talking about GMDM
Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.
by BillyMojo on May 6, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Strange -
I’m kinda pumped up for the game now. And Bob Costas is really Really REALLY smart.
Plus he’s a tool!
I've got crazy flipper fingers!
by labbadabba on May 6, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
he's so smart he shouldn't even be doing sports... yet he is
I love being insulted implicitly
if only i could pay him directly somehow
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What's up with the Costas slamming
what did he do to draw our ire; let me know I’m a huge ire bandwagonner.
by Your_Moms_Boyfriend on May 6, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Costas started his career at KMOX.
Isn’t that enough of a reason?!
(Seriously, I always liked Bob, and his later-career descent into smug smarminess hasn’t completely obliterated that yet. He’s one of the smartest sports broadcasters around, and I can forgive him his Luddite-like curmudgeonly desire to return to the way sports “used to be.”)
This space for rent.
by jonfmorse on May 6, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nicely Stated
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on May 6, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
he's just really annoyed me recently
he seems smug as hell, and I pretty much disagree with him on everything
also, the Buzz/Leach affair
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, Costas seems cool sometimes
but the truth is, well, he isn’t. Leitch makes it sound now like Costas was much more the “brains” behind the ambush than Buzz.
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
His schtick...
Here’s a story line that has been covered to the point of cliche, now I’m going to rehash it with a voice over of a montage set to stirring music.
Are you a personally invested fan? Here’s a spoon, lick it up.
Anybody else? Tough cookies, I’m gonna fan myself with the network dollars palm frawn while you suffer through this maudlin bullshit.
by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on May 6, 2009 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I disagree with the
“smartest sports broadcasters” moniker.
He’s a great trumpeter of ideas that aren’t always his. He just delivers the ideas like he thinks he’s smarter than you so you think, wow, Bob Costas is smart.
Meh, I just think he’s a tool.
Watching him on Inside the NFL was pure comedy (in the worst sense of the word).
I've got crazy flipper fingers!
by labbadabba on May 6, 2009 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd argue that actually trumpeting the ideas
instead of ignoring them is (generally speaking) evidence of his intelligence. ;)
This space for rent.
by jonfmorse on May 6, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think NBC has a PayPaul button on their website
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who's Paul?
Royals baseball. Where .260 would be orgasmic.
The General Theory of Royaltivity
by kabrink on May 6, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know
but I’m definitely in favor of putting PayJon buttons everywhere.
This space for rent.
by jonfmorse on May 6, 2009 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He's who you rob Peter for
Like when we traded away RamRam for Coco.
by Big Guy on May 6, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I remember here in Barcelona
during the ‘92 Olympics – we got the American feed on TV at night while the Spanish coverage team was off duty. Costas was extremely good about explaining stuff about Barcelona. He did a whole long semi-documentary on its history. He had clearly done his homework, or he’d been smart enough to hire a great producer to do that homework for him. I’ve always given him credit for that.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
by Juancho on May 6, 2009 2:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wait, are you FROM Barcelona or do you just live there?
Why do you like KC teams if you’re from there?
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
by mazoboom on May 6, 2009 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm from KC
Shawnee Mission South, class of ‘84. Graduated from KU. Have a Catalan wife, and have lived over here since about 1990, about 20 years. Translator and ESL teacher. Never fail to catch a game or two at the K when I’m back in the States in August, vacation month in Europe.
My signature line: Pujol / Pujols is probably the most common surname in Catalonia. It means “hill.” Since it’s a Catalan name, not Spanish, in Spain the Catalan pronunciation is used. So I always think of the St. Louis first baseman as “Poo-ZHOLS” rather than “POO-holes,” which is how they’d say it in LatAm. I like the Catalan pronunciation much better.
This is a great sports fan year for me. FC Barcelona eliminated Chelsea last night on a miracle last-minute goal, and is off to the final of the European Champions League against Manchester United; they also beat Real Madrid 2-6 last weekend, humiliating the traditional enemy in its own stadium and basically clinching the Spanish League title.
And, of course, the Royals’ success this season is tremendous, even though I only see a few highlights on ESPN’s website.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
by Juancho on May 7, 2009 3:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
SM North '84
We’re going to have to do pistols at dawn, sir.
This space for rent.
by jonfmorse on May 7, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Best Part About Willie F. Bloomquist
Is that even if the Mariners slay him, we have another Willie F. Bloomquist waiting in the wings in Tug Hulett.
Or should I say, ex-Seattle Mariner Tug Hulett.
by marbotty on May 6, 2009 3:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Tug hit well enough to be a major league bench player
he’s not nearly gritty enough to be another Willie
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
JoGui preparing to "pie" Buck after last night's win
I hereby resign from this post.
by Home Run Tony Cogan on May 6, 2009 3:11 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Good Will Blythe
Reference. We still correspond during the college basketball season. We’re 2 for 2 in championships the last 2 years.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on May 6, 2009 3:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
my heart is racing.
Can you imagine a Bloomquist late game PH, and a Sweeny late game PH. Oh boy oh boy.
"I can resist everything but temptation." - oscar wylde
by cfizzle on May 6, 2009 3:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
"Who among us has not looked out over the Kingdome in the 7th inning of a Battle for Grass Creek game and not seen, at once, both themselves, and the smiling face of God?"
Actually cribbed from a James Lipton introduction, or imagined as cribbed from a James Lipton introduction?
by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on May 6, 2009 3:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I Can Watch
This game on regular television today. I don’t know if I can put up with the M’s telecast, though.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on May 6, 2009 3:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
well done sir
can you explain and expound on Willie B’s nickname “the spork”
by AronV on May 6, 2009 3:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
He plays multiple positions. A spork is more than one thing.
"I can resist everything but temptation." - oscar wylde
by cfizzle on May 6, 2009 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I had to laugh last night when
Frank said lately he had been the ‘spark’ …
How I wish I had recorded that to overdub SPORK in there
Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.
by BillyMojo on May 6, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A spork that's also the spark?
Now we’re unbeatable!
by raefzilla on May 6, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Will:
OT, but I was wondering why the overflow threads are going in the fanpost section this season? The only reason I ask is that they push the other fanposts out rather quickly, not a big deal and don’t know if there is anything you can do but was just curious about the change.
by I need more Esteban on May 6, 2009 4:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
its a little workaround I have so I can move them off the front page after the game...
… i’m still not sure how best to handle this, I don’t want to erase them, but I also don’t want the entire front page just a bunch of overflow threads…
i’ve been trying to repost the real fanposts so they don’t get buried
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah I was thinking about that too
a dilemna that only Willie Bloomquist could have the right answer to.
by I need more Esteban on May 6, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
awesome
i will be at the game tonight ushering in this new era of royals dominance
realistically speaking
by slayor on May 6, 2009 5:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Trey obviously does not think our rivalry is a big deal
Resting Coco Crisp tonight! For shame!
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by RoyalsRetro on May 6, 2009 5:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
what was your and NY's bet on his PAs?
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 6, 2009 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
good ?
maybe 300 I think
or was that Glaod/
by royalsreview on May 6, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
For what it's worth
My friend from Seattle told me last season how BITTERRRRRR she was over us getting Meche, who just happened to be her favorite player.
I might rub it in her face that we’re pwning the freaking battle for Grass Creek right now…
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Greg, age 8
by loyal2theroyals on May 7, 2009 8:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Does Gil Meche still take forever to throw, or he work more quickly now?
This is a LL image circa 2005 or 2006:
And yes, I realize he is good.
by Decatur on May 7, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's fine, you just bring a novel to the game to read between pitches.
Go Royals!
by BabyBlues on May 7, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
still one ofthe greatest posts ever
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by devil_fingers on May 12, 2009 8:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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