Always it is by Bridges That We Live: Royals Links, News, Etc. To Take Your Mind Off the Losing Streak

by Freneau on Jun 5, 2009 12:44 AM EDT

The SB Nation tech team launched new software this week which makes it insanely easy to do links-posts, so hopefully, I'll start doing them more often. There are so many great baseball sites out there now, it's hard to keep up with it all. As such, I hope that maybe one of these links helps you find something better to do online for a few minutes, other than writing your hate letter in blood to Trey Hillman.

Bob Dutton's June 4 vlog | A tough loss to take

Aviles ordered to shut down for two weeks | royals.com: News

Rany on the Royals: Horacio Ramirez Sucks. Get Over It.

A double blog day: would last year's Hosey please stand up? | Mellinger's Blog on the Royals and Baseball

Lenny DiNardo and his guitar - Royal Blues

Gordon Beckham Promoted | FanGraphs Baseball

The Savior Has Arrived: Beckham Called Up - South Side Sox

AaronGleeman.com Twins Through Two Months (Hitters) AaronGleeman.com Twins Through Two Months (Pitchers)

D-Train Disaster: Red Sox 6, Tigers 3 - Bless You Boys

The one about sample size -- The Hardball Times

ShysterBall - Jayson Stark's Hypothetical Outrage

Royalscentricity: There Is No Fucking Fight In This Team

Pitching Perspectives (5/25-5/31) | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog

Was the Big-12 overrated? Breaking down conference performance in the regionals. - Big 12 Hardball

Bat Cats Fall to Rice, End Historic Season - Bring On The Cats

The Pipeline: Royals on the Farm 6/3

The Pipeline: Royal legacy #38 -- the 2005 Royals (56-106)

Getting to know a draft prospect: Drew Storen - Beyond the Box Score

The Baseball Analysts: Q&A with Baseball America's Jim Callis

Strasburg, Boras, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know About the 2009 Draft

Prospect Profile: Vin Mazzaro - Minor League Ball

How 2008 Relievers Were Used in the Minors - Minor League Ball

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Trey has lost this team

IMO. I understand that this team isn’t the most talented on the face of the earth; but it is a LOT more talented than recent Royals vintages.

Even if we were in a slump, there have been winnable games that because I believe of poor choices by Trey, has added to the losing.

No doubt, this is a team effort, everybody sucks ass right now, but I believe in the tone at the top, and for whatever reason this team is not buying what Trey is selling.

As bad as we’ve been recently, this season is not a lost cause yet. It may be time to make a managerial change to see if we can salvage this season (and by that I mean a run at .500 and players living up to their potential). This performance is just totally unacceptable.

I hereby resign from this post.

by Home Run Tony Cogan on Jun 5, 2009 11:40 AM EDT reply actions

too bad we can't send Hillman

to the DL with an “injury” like we do with slumping players

by benfunke on Jun 5, 2009 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Trey has no control over....

Player execution.

Sure he has made some “interesting” choices sometimes but, what else does he have? I am by no means suggesting Hillman is a great manager, but he isn’t the one giving up runs, not hitting in runs, not catching balls, not blocking balls, not throwing strikes…….see what I am trying to get at?

It’s arguing after the fact, Oh he should have put Cruz in, but what if he did? That doesn’t mean he would be effective. Hillman has more info on his players than we do, who knows what’s going on.

by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jun 5, 2009 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions