Rany Has Been Banned By the Royals

Brilliant, Just Brilliant.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I now realize why Mellinger probably takes it easy. If he gets banned from whatever it actuallly effects his job.

But this is just another embarrassing incident for the Royals. If Dayton had anything to do with it, he’s absolutely out of chances with me (and yes, I realize how much that matters).

Utterly classless. They won’t even respond? Not even a Mike Gundy-esque rant with Rany in the room?

If they think this is going to help anything…

I’m guessing that JoPo has written his last “Dayton Moore is super smart” column for a while.

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

by devil_fingers on Jul 2, 2009 1:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

the timing is even better...

… as the Meche saga refuses to end (because the Royals refuse to handle it the easy way)

by royalsreview on Jul 2, 2009 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm bummed about the BP Event...

I was trying to find a way for my wife and I to get to the K for it.

by royalsreview on Jul 2, 2009 1:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't really get what he means by banned?

Can he not attend games at all? How on earth can they enforce that? Have his picture at gates “DO NOT SERVE THIS MAN!”

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Jul 2, 2009 1:31 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

i'm pretty sure that is very illegal

Fire Everyone

by billybeingbilly on Jul 2, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe they have a German Shepherd with his scent at every entrance

Eh, my sig needs a little time off

by ratherfantastic on Jul 2, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

they get around it by actually just banning...

dermatologists…

the Roberts court has already spoken that this is acceptable

by royalsreview on Jul 2, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's simply a symbolic and pathetic gesture on the part of a gutless and inept organization

that cannot handle even the slightest harsh criticism about an obvious problem.

"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 Jul 2, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

In a way, it's even more shocking

that they would even “allow” Baseball Prospectus to have an event there.

Ironic, too, since BP is barely more sabermetric than the Royals front office at this point.

I can put that aside for now. I’m guessing all hell is going to break loose (relatively speaking) as Neyer, Pos, etc. get wind of this.

This will not end well for the Royals.

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

by devil_fingers on Jul 2, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

since BP is barely more sabermetric than the Royals front office at this point

hey-ooo!

by royalsreview on Jul 2, 2009 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

im looking forward to coming home from work tonite and reading a bunch of mean articles about the royals....

oh wait

maybe i should turn on petro

Fire Everyone

by billybeingbilly on Jul 2, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

fucking intern jeopardy....damn it

has he said anything about this previously today?

Fire Everyone

by billybeingbilly on Jul 2, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe 810 will fit it into "The Smoke & Fire Show" after Petro?

- W. Bloomquist homered to deep center
- P. Earth explodes

by JobDDT on Jul 2, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

petro is probably our only hope for this to get covered....

kietz sucks and the 610 boys arent likely to attack when they’re the flagship

Fire Everyone

by billybeingbilly on Jul 2, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

810 will undoubtedly have some fairly extensive commentary

since Rany is one of their employees.

"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 Jul 2, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well

The first 15 minutes of Kietzman’s show have been dedicated to talking about fireworks.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Jul 2, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

if Rany ws banned for talking about a downtown stadium

then that ratbas Kietzman would be on it

Still suffering from the greatest robbery of all time: The stealing of the 1994 AL Central title from the Royals

by BHWick on Jul 2, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hopefully they get to it before they have Gary Lezak on

TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER!!

by KCROYALS64 on Jul 2, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What?

is it raining in Kansas?

Still suffering from the greatest robbery of all time: The stealing of the 1994 AL Central title from the Royals

by BHWick on Jul 2, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No. Its a regular spot they have w/ Lezak each week

Scintillating radio. Right up there w/ Smoke and Fire.

by KCROYALS64 on Jul 2, 2009 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What a completely classless failure of an organization.

They should feel BLESSED at how soft the Kansas City media is. The franchise has spiraled out of control and nobody has really held them accountable.

And why was Rany banned? Because he advocated an out of shape athletic trainer be fired for a 19-year track record of failure? Forget the fact that he didn’t even point out that he is morbidly obese; I didn’t even think Rany’s column was that harsh.

I certainly, certainly hope this is a move by a Glass family member and not a decision made by Dayton Moore or anyone on his staff. Or maybe I do hope it was a Moore decision, because that might end the honeymoon he is still unbelievably on with the Kansas City media.

Think about it. I love some of the writers in this city, but we have to be the softest media on the planet. JoPo admits to going 10+ games without watching the Royals, taking massive vacations in the middle of the season. Whitlock could NOT care less about baseball. Dutton is a PR machine and Mellinger is an apologist.

Shame on the Kansas City Royals.

- W. Bloomquist homered to deep center
- P. Earth explodes

by JobDDT on Jul 2, 2009 1:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think it's pretty stupid of myself

But I also don’t like it that our two trainers weigh a combined 600 pounds.

by hippdoghipp on Jul 2, 2009 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Insane

This tells you all you need to know about the organization right now, I’m afraid.

by cookierojas73 on Jul 2, 2009 1:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What reporters were banned previously?

It was Rhonda Moss and someone from 810, right?

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by RoyalsRetro on Jul 2, 2009 1:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes, for asking Baird questions at the GMDM introduction press conference

- W. Bloomquist homered to deep center
- P. Earth explodes

by JobDDT on Jul 2, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

because they hid from the press after firing Baird

by Top Ramen on Jul 2, 2009 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

bob fescoe

who is now in STL, i believe

by gilmeche55 on Jul 2, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And while I never would have banned Fescoe

if I were the Royals, his semi-ridiculous, little-more-than-purely-antagonizing, almost-rhetorical “questions” were certainly more worthy of a ban than Rany’s very rational, well-reasoned, and supported blog post.

"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 Jul 2, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yes

fescoe was a douche who knew nothing about baseball. Complete opposite of Rany

by gilmeche55 on Jul 2, 2009 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This organization is a joke...

Yes, ban the most popular blogger about your team. This should get some national attention. What a sad excuse for management…

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by slayor on Jul 2, 2009 1:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

well, it's not like Rany has any friends at a major sports media outlet...

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

by devil_fingers on Jul 2, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Totally classless.

As I commented on Rany’s blog, the one good thing (other than the beauty of Kauffman Stadium) that people have always felt they could say about the Royals was that they had class. Now, unless someone higher up than the blacklister comes forward to undo this, the Royals have lost that as well.

Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!

by cmkeller on Jul 2, 2009 1:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

MRIs are for pussies

having chunks of your roster visit Dr. James Andrews is the currency of baseball

Still suffering from the greatest robbery of all time: The stealing of the 1994 AL Central title from the Royals

by BHWick on Jul 2, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

As in

the chunks of the roster that fall off after they play hurt?

by PopeSoria on Jul 2, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Has anyone emailed Soren?

Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.

by BillyMojo on Jul 2, 2009 1:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Lucky Rany

I wish they ban me from watching.

by kcbottom9th on Jul 2, 2009 1:57 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Open Post to the Royals Organizastion and Personal Resignation as a Fan

I am extremely disappointed in the Royals’ response to Rany Jazayerli’s blog post of June 24, 2009. Blacklisting Rany Jazayerli from Kauffman Stadium is fundamentally upsetting to me. This shows a lack of class and lack of respect for the basic right of free speech, and the Royals’ response should be protested.

I would have been able to tolerate, even understand, a response of blacklisting someone if Rany Jazayerli were employed or associated with the Royals in any professional capacity. But he’s not. Rany identifies himself on his blog as a dermatologist, blogger, and Royals fan. For years he’s been extremely articulate, incisive, and at times, critical of the Kansas City Royals organization from an outsider’s perspective, and my personal fandom of the Royals has been made all the better by his independent contributions to discussions of my most beloved sports franchise. It is very sad to hear that as a result of his love for the Royals (admittedly, sometimes a "tough love" as in his 6/24/2009), the powers that be have deemed him a pariah.

I’ve been a Royals fan all my life, but this lack of acceptance of freedom of speech by the Royals offends me as a person and citizen of this country. It’s not about whether Nick Swartz should be fired or not. At this point, I could care less, because freedom of speech comes first for me, before fandom. In result, it pains me to say this but I am no longer a fan of the Royals until they issue Rany a public apology. As such, I will no longer provide any support to the Royals – whether that be be monetary, emotionally, and sadly, contributing to this website.

The Royals’ front office response to Rany fundamentally offended my sense of right and wrong, and I will not sacrifice that for anyone, even the franchise that I have loved for so long. It’s time to move on. I wish the Royals all the best, and I extend a warm thank you to all of the contributors to Royals Review. This is an excellent online community and it saddens me to leave it. Hopefully, this will not be a permanent self-imposed exile.

The Royals’ front office response to Rany fundamentally offended my sense of right and wrong, and I will not sacrifice that for anyone, even the franchise that I have loved for so long. It’s time to move on. I wish the Royals all the best, and I extend a warm thank you to all of the contributors to Royals Review. This is an excellent online community – the Royals have such a wealth of intelligent and thougtful fans, it amazes me that so many bright people have been able to tolerate so many years of managerial and company executive ineptitude. But alas, that’s part of being a fan, and I have such a deep respect for you all. It really saddens me to leave this behind. Hopefully, this will not be a permanent self-imposed exile.

All the best,

Jonah Gillespie
Washington, DC

Waiting for April.

by DC Royal on Jul 2, 2009 2:28 PM EDT reply actions 10 recs

+1

I am actually going to send something along the lines to the team – with the addition that I will not be renewing my season tickets.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Jul 2, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I hope you sent it snail mail

I thikn the last three years have pretty much proven there aren’t any computers in the Front Office

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

by devil_fingers on Jul 2, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs

I'm taking a different approach but I agree with you DCRoyal. Note revised sig line.

I’m not going to stop watching and being a fan of MY team. I’m going to complain and bitch until they trot out their ~~scapegoat~~ sacrificial lamb in this debacle.

Not like I’m a drop in the bucket. I don’t contribute more than slightly to their revenue. I watch games on television, and listen on the radio, and occasionally buy products from ‘sponsors’ but not intentionally. I don’t attend games at the K. So, why should the organization care?

I do agree DC. This is clearly an issue of right and wrong. This is my chosen path, I will continue to be a ‘fan under protest’.

I’ve been in that state anyway in general for MLB ever since Bud Selig cancelled the World Series.

The Royals Front Office Is An Embarrassment to the Constitution of The United States of America. Specifically for blacklisting Rany. I am a fan under protest and I request an apology and withdrawal of this outrage.

by BillyMojo on Jul 2, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

New sig noted

And while I agree that the Royals have made a serious error here, I think it falls short of a constitutional issue. The First Amendment limits what the government can do, not what other entities can do.

I value freedom of expression beyond the limits to its abridgment in the First Amendment, so I’m completely in accord with this protest. I just think it’s better to omit the Bill of Rights in discussion of it.

by 2X2L on Jul 2, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I went a little overboard there to state my point

and I knew it when I did it.

Exaggeration is sometimes the key to effectiveness.

If you ask for 100% sometimes you get 10%, so ask for 10x what you really want, then you may have more chance of getting 100%.

or zero.

Since they’ve wiggled out, I’m back to Crash Davis quotes.

Christ, you don't need a quadrophonic Blaupunkt! What you need is a curveball! In the show, everyone can hit heat.

by BillyMojo on Jul 3, 2009 8:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree with this letter

Thanks for posting it, perhaps we can glean some thoughts and ideas down from this so that we can further the onslaught of mal-e-mails to the Royals.

This is utterly ridiculous. So the organization spends time looking for what fans are writing about the team, on blog sites. Rather than, oh I don’t know, running a professional baseball team!!!!

Then furthering the redicul-osity by actually banning a person (from what? watching the ineptitude) because he brought up a rather obvious albeit heated point and concern about the training staff.

A pox on this organization. Run a team, worry about what people say if they are unfounded, unwarranted, very public, and non-professional. None of these qualifiers was the case in Ranys blog.

For Shame Royals. For shame.

by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jul 2, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hope you don't mind

but I might just copy and paste this, change the name, and send it off to whatever Royals’ email addresses I can find. Excellent response.

"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 Jul 2, 2009 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

this should be a standalone post I think, rec'd

by royalsreview on Jul 2, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I will post it.

Waiting for April.

by DC Royal on Jul 2, 2009 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

“Rany needs to start pounding tequila, that’ll make him feel better about Dr. Nick’s training staff”

Still suffering from the greatest robbery of all time: The stealing of the 1994 AL Central title from the Royals

by BHWick on Jul 2, 2009 2:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Went back and looked at Rany's twitter posts:

Release The Hounds. http://bit.ly/3JALP8 Swartz will want to hurt me after reading this. If he were my trainer, he already would have.10:44 PM Jun 24th from TweetDeck

Apparently the Royals are EXTRAORDINARILY pissed off at me. I guess it’s my fault Crisp is out for the year. I’m just the messenger, guys.7:24 PM Jun 29th from TweetDeck

Just received word that Mike Aviles will have TJ surgery on Sat. Put this in the running for “least surprising news of the week.” Or year.9:46 AM Jul 1st from

TweetDeck

It’s official: I’ve been banned by the Royals. Yes, banned. I’m not sure if this is a punishment or a reward. http://bit.ly/ygFTWabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

by Top Ramen on Jul 2, 2009 4:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, the fans have been clammoring for the organization to hold somebody accountable...

by Top Ramen on Jul 2, 2009 4:17 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Dayton Moore was right:

we have to be better fans. And if you think about it, who else is responsible. David Glass had been a model owner. We have a great manager. Dayton Moore has assembled an extremely talented team with no help at all fro the previous administrations picks. The trainer is outstanding — he’s even a doctor, which almost two decades of experience serving the Royals.

The only possible source of the Royals problems is the fans, I guess.

We’ve been chastized.

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

by devil_fingers on Jul 2, 2009 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that news

is really saddening to me. obviously not worrying about improving the team but worrying about what people are saying. not smart.

Kansas City Royals - rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic since 1994.

by Home Run Tony Cogan on Jul 2, 2009 4:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Rany just updated the blog:

Just to be clear here, since I think everyone’s taking my words a little too literally: I don’t think I’ve been “banned” in the sense that they’re going to have security guards outside the stadium making sure that I don’t buy a ticket. It does mean that the Royals have cut off any access I may have from the team for my radio show, and – this is critical – have intimated that any other radio show which has me on as a guest faces the same penalty.

I see this as the equivalent of having my media credentials taken away, except of course that I don’t have media credentials, and the Royals have made it clear they don’t give media credentials to bloggers.

by The #1 Bockel on Jul 2, 2009 4:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Apologies if this has been posted already

but here’s Rany’s explanation of what being “banned” entails:

I’m also going to add what I’ve written below to the main text for clarification:

Just to be clear here, since I think everyone’s taking my words a little too literally: I don’t think I’ve been “banned” in the sense that they’re going to have security guards outside the stadium making sure that I don’t buy a ticket. It does mean that the Royals have cut off any access I may have from the team for my radio show, and – this is critical – have intimated that any other radio show which has me on as a guest faces the same penalty.

I see this as the equivalent of having my media credentials taken away, except of course that I don’t have media credentials, and the Royals have made it clear they don’t give media credentials to bloggers.

"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 Jul 2, 2009 4:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs