Royals Fall in Tampa, Ability to Get Up Unclear

Didn’t realize you had hung around for the sad ending. Should I delete the fangraph?

my projections is that we’re getting swept in Tampa, and we’ll win the next Greinke start in Toronto

I forget, are we at 5 or 6 losses in a row right now?

can you make sure Trey’s not betting against his team? He seriously can’t be so stupid as to think that repeatedly putting HoRam into tie games will help us.

I know the MLB puts a block on listening to the games online without paying them $x a month. After the game I’ve been trying to listen to the postgame on 610 Sport’s website, but still all I get is this crappy Fox Sports Radio bull $*. Is this normal or is it my fault? :(

I don’t know what, but I can’t imagine DM is going to let this nonsense go on much longer without making a trade or doing something semi-drastic. This offseason the story was that DM was done evaluating and ready to make some moves. Too bad the moves were mostly dumb. But I bet he does something soon. At least that will be interesting, more interesting that watching us lose 5-2 every night.

I also wanted to congratulate him on his plate blocking, then I noticed he had a WP from Colon… Man, he has to be headed for a record.

This team WILL lose 90 games.

The major league roster needs to be blown up. Greinke is the ONLY untouchable. Anything and anyone else else that that can be done to get rid of salary and be moved for young and high ceiling prospects HAS to be explored.

DEFENSE and ATHLETICISM and CEILING must be a priority if said moves are made.

We need to spend a BOATLOAD of cash again in this years draft, making several moves for “unsignable” players with our “extra” money (especially since we don’t have a 2nd rounder).

Aside from that, I love the boys in blue, but man am I disappointed. And Dayton, you are seriously on notice bud.

and that we were being a little irrational with things. But really, we just kind of felt what was coming. Those losses and bad decisions smelled of the old Royals, and they are most definitely back. I was angry and passionate then, now I’m resigned to sucking for the rest of the year, and probably til a year or 2 after The Hos and MooseTacos get here. If they aren’t going to do something significant to contend for next year I say trade Greinke to fill up the farm system faster. This is the absolute highest his value will ever get. The only problem with that is the ballpark will be void of fans as everybody will jump ship, so probably not the best idea. Then again, buy low, sell high.

List of things to do
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Fire Hillman
If GMDM won’t do it, fire GMDM
Trade Jacobs for a quality reliever
Call up Kila
Dump Guillen for anything including a PTBNL that turns out to be $1 if they pick up any salary
Send 2 of our 3 utility IF back to OMAHA
Trade Buck or Olivo for a quality reliever
DFA HoRam
Draft Best Player Available and throw money at the best players like you are making it rain on strippers
Trade DeJesus? Teahen? Crisp?
Do something not nothing.

where i can make a TPJ joke in a game thread and it just lingers on the page like a stale fart because nobody else wants/cares to post…. makes me feel like a man.

and go team!

that people are starting to come around to the fact that this team needs to be “restructured” (I’m not going to say blown up, that kinda implies that nearly everyone needs to go).

the fact remains, however that the upper minor leagues are nearly bereft of any talent whatsoever, and the team is at it’s notional payroll limit.

so, unless we do something to change this equation, this team is not going to make any more progress imo and will be a “fringe” .500 team with no legitimate shot to make the playoffs. better, to be sure, than what we’ve gone through the past 5 years, but not really where we want to be.

That some Royals fans haven’t learned anything over the years.

First it was, “Just wait, when Damon & Sweeney are up here, we are really gonna see something.”

Then of course came, “We’ll compete when Beltran and Affeldt get up here & start to produce, you’ll see.”

Which of course led to, “Butler & Gordon will be the backbone of our offense for a decade.”

And now there are those silly enough to carry the same philosophy forward, “We are going to suck until Moose & Hosmer are up here, then we’ll show ’em.”

there is just not enough offense or defense to protect what they do

Greinke is a phenom right now and has been for awhile he doesn’t move, and GMDM better not trade him, or that will be another step back towards what the Royals use to do.

Meche is usually really solid, and even in his off nights a slightly above average offense with an average bull pen would give him a win

Banny is a recent re-revelation and the same that was said about Meche could be said for Banny.

Davies isn’t that far off, he is probably a #5, but he sits at 4, how many other MLB teams are in similar situations?

These 4 starters could have 2-3 more wins (each) thus far in the season if, there was average offense and defense around them.

The whole roster needs to be scrapped? NO!! They need some big tweeks though. Guillen is a DH. period. (.) SS has been a black hole of sucksation 3 level, and not sure how to rectify that situation. Teahen at 3rd is not that bad, when/if Gordon gets back how agile will he be?

I am not sure how to change this team so that they can back their Starters enough, to get them to the closer of all closers……it just hurts to see (IMO) so many of the right pieces there, and yet so many circular pegs trying to fit into a square hole.