Suck.

I thought anytime you can trade a relief pitcher for an everyday player you have to do it and I thought they were good trades.. Get some Power here and some speed and good defense from crisp.. Boy was I fucking wrong

Jacobs cant hit a lick and hasn’t hit a homer since 1937 and crisp has the worst arm I have ever witnessed in the MLB it is just pathetic.. He has lost the skill to draw walks now and is batting .230..

Im now completely disgusted with these moves

I can only imagine if this team were to spend money on lets say an Adam Dunn? Bobby Abreu? and put DeJesus in centerfield.. and leave Kila to the starting job.. those two moves with Leo Nunez and Ram Ram in the pen would be unbelievably better..

This is a putrid team who’s luck has obviously ran out..

I.Hate.This.Team

Sincerly -Disgruntled and Disgusted Royals Fan

Is clearly a better option than Wright at this point. It really isn’t even close.

Greinke throws 13 innings of shutout baseball (of course our offense will not score) and loses on a should-have-been-caught triple over Guillen’s head and a passed ball by Olivo

“ability to pick up quality bullpen arms on the cheap” moniker that I’ve heard ad nauseum for the past year and a half?

how many games Hillman has cost the team because of bringing in clearly inferior options, like today. no guarantees that anybody else gets it done either, but who knows, man just fuck it, it really doesn’t matter what happens we are just going to lose no matter what.

100 losses, anyone?

Sorry, Its time for me to root for the Cardinals

Jeremy Affeldt and Mike MacDougal both pitching in the SF-WAS game currently. SF up 2-1. Which former Royals stud will break first and either blow or insure Randy Johnson’s 300th win?

First he says Soria available, then during the post game said he was never going to pitch back to back.

Its amazing how he isn’t throwing anybody under the bus when he makes the mistakes… Fucking ASSHAT!!!

I was really excited to post this pic with some clever… “This guy approves” but no… WHY GOD DO YOU SMITE US!!!

Fox Sports KC is replaying the game, so we can relive that epic Billy Butler double in about an hour

til this abortion of a team proves me wrong or at least has a freakin’ pulse. THIS TEAM WILL LOSE 100 games. I know its a weak divsion. I dont care. If you at our record vs. the division its 13-14. Doesnt sound that bad huh. However, remember the magical start we had, well its history. When we pitch, we dont hit. When dont pitch, we dont hit. When we pitch, we dont play d, we dont hit. There is no combination thats been working. The lineup is terrible. Crisp is really pissing me off. Callaspo, like i said all along, will be under .300 by the end of the year if he didnt go under today. The bullpen is in shambles. The trades of Nunez and Ramirez make us look like a joke organization right now. We got an imaptient, aging lead off hitter and a guy that couldnt hit a pre pubescent kid thats left handed. I mean as some of you have said, maybe you just have to laugh and say to yourself, “Why do i care? Why do i root for the royals? They stunk in the past, they stink now, and will prob stink in the future.” Im just mad at myself that i actually believed this year they had a chance. We keep losing and nothing is being shaken up. No moves. No nothing. This is a team thats drowning and the organization is watching, laughing with a beer in hand. Pathetic.

He won’t be a regular major league starter within 2 years of leaving the Royals.

With the love of OBP, I’m surprised there’s still a push for having DeJesus (OBP below 300) batting leadoff over Crisp (OBP in the .340s). DeJesus would need to raise his BA by 50 points to put up an OBP close to Crisp’s.

Teahen and DDJ are the poster boys for take it easy aimless baseball.

And DDJ is 29, advancing on 30. He’ll be out of the majors by the time he’s 35.

who was doing good is now regressing back to normal, how in the hell are the regressed players going to help out the now regressing

kinda like the blind leading the blind

7 walks, 4 strikeouts in 9 1/3 innings pitched since May 8th

to be fair, he managed to not walk a batter in 3 of 9 appearances over that time.

Get over your mancrushes. Juan is Leo Nunez with 10 pounds, a few years, and less control.

at least he sounds like he cares about winning games.

Can’t say that about DeJesus, Guillen, Teahen, etc, etc, etc

9 HR, 25 RBI, 9 doubles, 103 OPS+… or 21 K/13 BB in 26 2/3 IP

If you really think the second is decisively more valuable than the first, invite me to your fantasy league.

in a high leverage situation until he actually does it successfully. Hindsight and wishing are great, but can you imagine what the reaction would have been if Farnsworth came out for the 8th? And then if he gave up 2 runs? We would have gone berzerk (sp?).

So when Wright comes in—granted, not a great choice—the criticism CANNOT be “we want Farnsworth”. We do not want Farnsworth, not in high-leverage, at least not until he shows us otherwise.

what the hell is this crap? I’m going to need to put my headphones in the jack now

he’s pitching in the 9th (Hillman said that). If you pitch a reliever over two innings, his rotator cuff explodes and the terrorists win.

Still not defending Jamey. He’d be stocking groceries if he was 5 inches shorter.

Look at the 25 man roster currently. Castoffs and utility players are everywhere obviously he could make a couple less mistakes but it doesn’t matter. Positionally there isn’t one playoff caliber starter on the roster. Until the team has at least one positional all star starter it just doesn’t matter.

Schaum and Ford said it perfectly after the game. If the team is unsure Soria can’t go two games in a row then why not have him pitch a couple rehab games so they know as opposed to just guessin. Yes it wouldn’t have changed anything for this game except to take a little heat off Trey for using him in a meaningless game not knowing when Soria will be able to pitch in a meaningful situation.

This is what happens when you put a bunch of washed up has-beens (Wright, HoRam, Ponson, Bale, Farnsworth) in a bullpen.

Add that to the fact that we have a 4th OF batting leadoff, a should-be-platooned lefty hitting cleanup, and a big fat hole at shortstop, and this is almost entirely expected. Yes, guys like Cruz, Mahay and Aviles have let us down more than we can even put into words, but were you really relying on them to punch our ticket to .500? Gordon and Soria have both been injured, but if Gordon had stayed and played his career average, would Teahen have gone on his hot stretch? Or for that matter, would Callapso have even gotten off the bench?

And how many save opportunities has this team even had since Soria got hurt? One? It sure feels like zero.

My point is, this team is and has always been genetically flawed. Our three big acquisitions in the offseason (Willie, Coco and Jacobs) all played far above career averages, and what we’re seeing now is all of that even itself out.

Final thoughts? Dayton Moore had a pathetic offseason, is fielding a team that on paper should finish about 15 games below .500, has regressed so much from last year’s bullpen-first team and yet will continue to receive a free pass from the soft KC media. Yes, Hillman makes a bad thing worse by misusing his terrible bullpen, but Dayton deserves the blunt of the blame for this.

/rant

Runs scored
2006 – 757
2007 – 706
2008 – 691
2009 – 658 (projected)

it’s very obvious I avoid all the big discussion simply because I refuse to learn more about baseball. All I need to know is that the team is struggling majorly, bad desicions are being made by DM, Trey, Olivo, hell, most of the guys on the team. We have Greinke who hasn’t been getting run support he got in April. We have Soria who Trey refuses to play even though we might not be in a save situation for another week and a half and he could very well “save” us some games by pitching in pressure situations that aren’t in the 9th inning. We have Billy who is really starting to grow into a nice ballplayer both defensively and offensively, but I am convinced will get into his best form for another team, just like every other good player we’ve had in the past decade. Other than that what do we have? We have a line-up of starting pitchers which includes (other than Zack) 1: Gil, who gets up to 50 pitchs in the first 3 innings and can’t finish guys off worth a shit. 2: Davies, who would honestly work best as a bullpen guy right now. 3: Banny, who is just the streakiest pitcher I’ve ever seen. 4: Luke along with a bullpen that includes guys who are getting play time in the wrong time for being good A MONTH AGO. Obviously Trey can hear our views because now he’s been keeping Farnsworth out of tight situations, only now he’s gotten better and we’d LIKE TO SEE HIM PITCH THEM AGAIN. And finally there’s the offense which can be describe without stats: it’s bad. It’s very bad. Butler and Teahen can produce. Olivo, Jacobs and Guillen are streakier than a windshield covered with dead bugs. DDJ is getting old, but is still doing good stuff. Coco and Willie have dropped off the face of the Earth. Bert has a mandatory hit almost every game, but lately it’s been at the wrong time every time. So add all these up, subtract views like mine that say (when it starts you always have a 50% chance to win) and you have a blog filled with disgruntled, angry, pissy, shitpoor attitude users. We weren’t supposed to be good this year, so maybe that’s why I can still be sunny side up in this place, but after every loss, even though the words have been different, it’s been the same spiel with some thoughts on things we did bad in the game added to spice things up. And if we win the comments will still be based on things we did bad and who sucked more. And if we win 10 in a row and then lose 1 the mood will instantly change back to the we’ve lost 20 in a row mentality. I know I don’t have stats to back me up on things like this, but really there are not need when you can see it happen as it really happens. Feel free to point out anything I’ve said wrong because when I do rant like this (this is my first all season) I speak entirely from the gut and only the gut (and it always will be the gut) and may not speak from perspective of a guy’s WAR or whatever right.

And its not even one we play.

Let’s all get a good night’s sleep and come back all refreshed tomorrow. The Royals haven’t been good against slumping teams they should beat, so maybe they’ll reverse course and take 2 of 3 against a team who should beat them. We’ve got Zack, and he’s due to play stopper. CG shutout time.

Unbridled irrational optimism rules!