Hola. There are several things that are blatantly obvious about the current Kansas City Royals. They're not hitting very well, They're not defending very well, and they don't care about their lack of hitting or defense.

Barring a miracle, this season is over and the best opportunity to win a decision in six years will be squandered because of the fact that the wrong man is managing this team. There is no rational argument for Trey Hillman short of admitting that he sucks or asking people to wait longer. I'm not going to suffer through 4 more years of bad baseball to see Trey manage Mitch Moustakas or to see if Dayton's magic bean collection pans out.

You can keep waiting for Trey Hillman to manage a winning team, and I'll chop my hand off and put it in an oaken bucket. In four years, I will have something and you will still be waiting.

Trey Hillman was the wrong pick to manage the Kansas City Royals. Bringing a manager with ZERO experience in Major League Baseball at ANY level was a mistake. The entireity of Hillman's experience was at the minor league level and Hillman never played an inning in the major leagues. It's the sort of mistake that gets general managers fired. But fortunately for Dayton Moore, he will keep his job until the parade on the plaza or when his can't-miss prospects miss.

But firing Trey Hillman is not going to make this team worse.

For one thing, Trey Hillman does not make consistent decisions and he makes a wide variety of idiotic decisions. We're not expecting perfection, but when you blow a decision in almost every loss, it's not bad luck. It's a trend. Bad managers will remain bad managers. If you surrounded Trey Hillman with the 1927 Yankees, he will still be a bad manager.

It's hard to pick an example of the most frequent Hillman mistake. His dartboard mentality with relievers. His punchless lineups and refusal to put hot hitters in the place to hit and demote cold hitters. The fact that he even allows Tony Pena Jr to bat. The fact that he allowed Tony Pena Jr to bat with a broken hand. The fact that he batted Mike Jacobs cleanup while in the middle of an epic slump. The fact that he batted Mike Jacobs cleanup against John Danks. The fact that he continues to put Jose Guillen in the middle of the batting order. The fact that he banishes Alberto Callaspo to the bottom of the batting order. The fact that he puts Willie Bloomquist in the 2 spot. The fact that he talked of protecting Gil Meche's arm two days after throwing him out for 121 pitches. The fact that he started Ross Gload for 40+ games in a row.

Anybody using the "wait until he has more options" excuse is an apologist for bad baseball. I can respect the idea of waiting out the year with Trey. But 2010 will be just as bad as 2009 if Trey Hillman is managing this team.

There is no accountability on this team. Part of that lays on the shoulders of Dayton Moore. Before Dayton Moore came to Kansas City, most people thought the Braves way involved winning baseball. But so far under Dayton, it involves Braves rejects, a barren farm system, refusing to release the worst hitter in Baseball History, and a bathtub full of hope. Hope and Hype have a lot in common. But as noted, Dayton's idiocy with free agents is not enough to make it a good idea to fire him. Yet.

You could lay the blame on Kevin Seitzer. Does ANYBODY know what this guy's hitting philosophy is? One of the talking heads on 610 talked of hitters getting worse when they did what they always did, instead of what Seitzer wanted to do. Which is assuming a lot, mainly assuming that "What Seitzer advocates makes hitters better". Hitting coaches are only useful for finding mistakes and suggesting alternatives. They can't hold the bat and swing it too. That being said, the results so far suggest that Kevin Seitzer sucks at his job. Which doesn't make him unique amongst the Royals coaching staff. You could probably fire the Windmill and Rusty without really making much of a difference. As long as your third base coach has good vision and doesn't have a crayon lodged in his brain, he'll usually do his job well. Firing the third base coach would not have a damn bit of impact on this team.

But there is a short-term alternative for this baseball team. We actually have a manager on this team with major league experience and a winning record in major league games. I don't know a lot about the overall results we'd get with a John Gibbons, but let's compare Hillman and Gibbons.

Hillman trying to correct a player has not worked at any level. Do you really think a bunch of guys who got to the majors are going to be patronized by a failed middle infielder who never made it to the show before 2008? What does the manager of minor league teams have to show them that they don't know. If the players treat a veteran manager like that, by all means, trade them. But when it's a clueless rookie manager trying to be Cliff Clavin, they're justified. And let's just say that when the dilemna involves this dispute, removing the clueless rookie manager first can help in figuring out which smiling candyasses and moody losers need to get the hell out of Kansas City.

John Gibbons was a first rounder, made the show, has the track record in the major leagues, and he has a winning record as a big league manager in the toughest division in baseball. Also, when players smart off to him, they tend to go somewhere else. Ask Frank Thomas. Ask Shea Hillenbrand. I'm encouraged by his record of standing up to primadonnas. I'd imagine that a Jose Guillen pulling a fit in front of John Gibbons would end in a different result than when he pulled a fit in front of Trey Hillman. Granted, in the time that John Gibbons has been in the Royals dugout, Jose Guillen has actually behaved himself.

I will not advocate John Gibbons as a permanent manager until I see his work for myself and until I see how he mixes with this team.This team has a bench of puzzle pieces that don't fit together, thanks to Dayton. This team has a few candyasses who need to get traded. This team needs to know that smiling is reserved for when good things happen, Laziness & Whining is a ticket out of town, and that playing hard is the only option.

It doesn't mean that I want Torquemada, I just want a manager who gives a crap if this team wins or loses. Trey Hillman doesn't care, this team doesn't care, and it'd be easy for me to not care and start talking about the Chiefs. But I care, because Baseball is the best sport in the world and I want my team to be the best team.

We've had enough of this bad baseball, of losing every night, of this team being the laughingstock of baseball. We've had enough of seeing the same damn press conference from Trey Hillman, mumbling through the story of how the night went wrong for us again. Showing the passion of a poetry reader on Nyquil. We've had enough of mistake after mistake and a manager who lost his team a long time ago. And for the love of all that is holy, keeping Trey Hillman isn't going to help this team. Keeping Trey Hillman is waterboarding this teams fans.

In the last 15 years, we've suffered a lot. We suffered the pains of going from the best owner in Baseball (a man who should be in the Hall of Fame) a man who cared about Kansas City to one of the worst owners in baseball who doesn't live here or care about this city.

Bob Boone was a bumbling butcher who presided over the end of the Royals dynasty of the 70s to the 1990s. He took this team to a new low. The day that he was fired was a happy day for this teams fans.

Tony Muser was a mumbling gunnery Sgt. wannabe who shredded more arms, took this team down to the pits, and managed to lose with one of the best offenses that we've ever seen. The day that he was fired was a happy day for this teams fans.

Tony Pena is the only manager in the last 15 years who had any sort of personality or drive. Pena's presence was probably the difference between a winning season and a losing season in 2003. But the team in 2003 was put together with duct tape, random couch fluff, and a lot of luck. When Allard Baird opted for bittle old men in free agency in 2004, that was all. Tony Pena has the honor of being the only manager since 1995 who quit prematurely.

I don't know what Allard Baird was drinking when he hired Buddy Bell, but i'm sure the can had Sherwin-Williams on the side. But Buddy Bell looks better every day we're stuck with Trey Hillman. I was on the side of firing him for a good year and a half solid until he left his job after 2007. Bell was a lousy manager. And when he quit, that was a happy day for this team's fans.

I forget if Trey Hillman was hired before we signed roid-user Jose Guillen. That's only important because the event that happened first was the first big mistake of Dayton Moore's tenure and the other event was the second big mistake of Dayton Moore's tenure.

But unlike Jose Guillen, you can undo the mistake of hiring Trey Hillman without a negative impact on this team's finances.

Once upon a time, we fired managers during seasons where the team was .500. We fired managers with winning records.

And now I don't think there's enough fans or mediots who are willing to call for the firing of Trey Hillman. T-shirts, posters, and websites would have sprung up in other cities. Sports radio wouldn't be filled with mealymouthed apologists.

The Kansas City Royals fanbase is the smartest fanbase in baseball. Without a doubt. They've seen winning baseball, and they don't tolerate losing.

End the Suffering.
We've had enough.
Trey must go.
Fire Trey Hillman.