TO: Royals Unable to Find Themselves in the Standings

'"We looked in all the usual places: third place, fourth place, even fifth place, and we didn't see our name anywhere," said Royals GM Dayton Moore, who added that he even peeked at the AL West standings to see if perhaps the team had been moved to a different division.'

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Gotta have some love for the Onion :)

by sterlingice on May 9, 2009 1:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This isn't the first time...

the Onion did a “story” on the Royals

A couple years ago they had an article about the Royals hiring Tom Emanski to help them with their fielding woahs

Are you telling me Jesus Christ cant hit a curve ball?

by averagegatsby on May 9, 2009 2:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49108

Are you telling me Jesus Christ cant hit a curve ball?

by averagegatsby on May 9, 2009 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Awesome. But The Onion could've...

…made this even better with a Dayton Moore-NL East angle. You know, something like GMDM was also dreaming the other night, and he woke up bummed and dumbfounded that the Royals were omitted from the NL East standings, especially since we keep calling up all of the best of the Braves former minor leaguers. :) – TL

by timlacy on May 9, 2009 6:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

good point

“What does Mr. Selig think the point of having Brayan Pena, Tony Pena, Jr., Luis Hernandez, Horacio Ramirez, Juan Cruz, and Ron Mahay all on the 40-man roster is all about?”

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by devil_fingers on May 9, 2009 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs