Royals Pound Twins, Lose Ground in Bryce Harper Sweepstakes

by Freneau on Aug 12, 2009 12:08 AM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

So can we calm down on the rhetoric about people quitting?

How do you even quit in baseball? It's the most individualistic team sport in the world, and surely all the old-schoolers who think the Royals are failing just because they're a bunch of sissies also believe that our national innocence has been destroyed by selfish millionaires playin' for their stats. So guys are going up the plate not trying to hit? Not trying to get outs? It just doesn't make any sense.

The Royals completely dismantled the Twins tonight, in one of those stunning/typical baseball results we often see. In 2030, when MLB has a 24 team playoff format, with the first three rounds single elimination, we'll see some weird champions crowned.

All hail Miguel Olivo! All hail David DeJesus! All hail Yuni Betancourt! All hail Mike Jacobs! All hail Alex Gordon!

Hell, even Mitch had two hits and the Royals got some revenge on hated ex-Royal Bobby Keppel. Crazy.

This was clearly what Dayton envisioned all along and on nights when almost everyone in the lineup has a multi-hit game and the team draws eight walks, the offense really clicks.

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Wait, you're telling me that Josh Anderson is _trying_ to hit?

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by Matt Klaassen on Aug 12, 2009 12:11 AM EDT reply actions

good point

he may just be trying to play the game the right way and get his uniform dirty in the quickest manner possible

by Freneau on Aug 12, 2009 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions

he should just dive head first into the batters box

Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures

by averagegatsby on Aug 12, 2009 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs

Excellent

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Aug 12, 2009 6:43 AM EDT up reply actions

and yes, that DDJ picture was from a BASEBALL GAME

by Freneau on Aug 12, 2009 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions

I wanted to ask if it was him

between the shadow and the stockiness, he actually looks kinda gritty

which we know is impossible, sinec he and Buclk have been undermining The Process™ all season.

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by Matt Klaassen on Aug 12, 2009 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions

Buck and DDJ wearing matching shirts=priceless

is that Gil in the middle?

Are those shirts all from the Dayton Moore Spring Training Collection?

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by Matt Klaassen on Aug 12, 2009 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions

Willie maybe?

by Freneau on Aug 12, 2009 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions

WTF Could Tell?

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Aug 12, 2009 6:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Priceless pic right there

When super delayed gratification meets with underachieving veteran they laugh at the Royals, just a hypothesis though

by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 12, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Josh Anderson vs. Joey Gathright

Discuss amongst yourselves.

by Black and Gold on Aug 12, 2009 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions

It definitely reeks of The Process.

It clearly is WORKING!!!!!

Hopes fade once again from blue to red. Go New Chiefs!!

by kabrink on Aug 12, 2009 12:11 AM EDT reply actions

Mitch is hitting a robust .360 since the break.

How come it's a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Someone is making a penny.

by Grantastica on Aug 12, 2009 12:18 AM EDT reply actions

nice

I was not aware of that

good for him

by Freneau on Aug 12, 2009 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions

14 runs? 8 walks?

Hundred year flood? Alien invasion? Mixed results from the solid south?

I am stupefied.

Extremis malis extrema Soria.

by 2X2L on Aug 12, 2009 12:22 AM EDT reply actions

I'm sure there is an asteroid on the way also.

Hopes fade once again from blue to red. Go New Chiefs!!

by kabrink on Aug 12, 2009 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions

Perhaps even — and don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are overcompensated — a CEO of an investment bank with a modest income.

Extremis malis extrema Soria.

by 2X2L on Aug 12, 2009 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions

Empirically Proven Impossible.

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Aug 12, 2009 6:45 AM EDT up reply actions

After that game

doesn’t anything seem possible? Cats helping squirrels to cross busy streets? A terse blog posting by Joe Posnanski? The Royals front office admitting that mistakes were made — and learning from them?

Extremis malis extrema Soria.

by 2X2L on Aug 12, 2009 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Mixed results from the solid south?

I hope the Big 12 is that way

Phase 1: Assemble expensive, below average players
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: CHAMPIONSHIP!
-RoyalsRetro

by ratherfantastic on Aug 12, 2009 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd for that is the hope of all !!

When super delayed gratification meets with underachieving veteran they laugh at the Royals, just a hypothesis though

by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Aug 12, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

I would actually favor the 24 team playoff format

Though the regular season would have to be pared back to around 120 games. The new playoff round starts on Monday each week, and you play everyday until a team wins its 4th game, then you rest up for next week. It would at least be more interesting than late July and August are now.

by AxDxMx on Aug 12, 2009 12:43 AM EDT reply actions

Make it a 16 game schedule

The NFL is king, and we should all try to emulate them.

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by RoyalsRetro on Aug 12, 2009 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions

then MLB could beat them to the punch

by increasing it to 17 games

"The life of a (Royals) fan must be lived forward but can only be understood backward" -- Kierkegaard (more or less)

by benfunke on Aug 12, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions

One disadvantage to having a first-year non-Royals fan doing the postgame

610’s Robert Ford insisting that if Dayton Moore was the GM when Alex Gordon was coming up, he would have never had Gordon skip AAA.

Ford also opposes Hubertology (“AAAA”) and the Kaaihue cult (“Can’t catch up to fastballs”).

Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis

by BHWick on Aug 12, 2009 1:02 AM EDT reply actions

btw

just saw that Poz posted on Quitting etc.

I bow before the master

by Freneau on Aug 12, 2009 1:23 AM EDT reply actions

ironically, Frank was talking in the broadcast about how

Jacobs is starting to “use the middle of the field more” and Olivo is beginning to “show more patience” – basically, and perhaps without even realizing it, they are trying to become better hitters now that the Royals are out of it. Obviously, the royals will ride their hot bats to a near .500 record in remaining games and we will get to see both of them swinging for the fences again next year, thanks to the astute Royals brass – you have to focus on the first 40 games and the last 40 games…forget about those other 80, they don’t count, guys were injured…..

We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan

by Royal Kingdom on Aug 12, 2009 8:15 AM EDT up reply actions

The boys

always look good in the late months when there pressure is gone and the vacation plans have been made for October.

by BlueBloodRoyal on Aug 12, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Late months?

The pressure was gone in May.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Aug 12, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions

Lies!

We were 18-11 before injuries destroyed our season! We were still in it through May!

by kcbottom9th on Aug 12, 2009 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions

I know

the rest of the major league teams did not have injuries, but we did, it doesn,t seem fair, does it ?

by BlueBloodRoyal on Aug 12, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Butler's obviously a failure

He’s only hitting .167 since Monday, he hit into a DP, AND he had an error. Clearly the decision to allow Ross Gload to get away from us is coming back to haunt us.

This space for rent.

by jonfmorse on Aug 12, 2009 3:48 AM EDT reply actions

We Will Always

Remember the day…………………

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Aug 12, 2009 6:47 AM EDT up reply actions

don't forget Alex Gordon's 95 horrible plate appearances of destiny so far this season

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by Matt Klaassen on Aug 12, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions

A preview of this offseason

Alex Gordon to the Dodgers for Juan Pierre, Pierre to CF, Callaspo to 3B, Bloomquist to 2B.

Mission Accomplished!

by Gopherballs on Aug 12, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Gregg Zaun to Mariners

Branyan Langerhans Fingers to Orphanage

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by Matt Klaassen on Aug 12, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Have you figured out the difference in WAR

swapping out Jacobs, Guillen, Crisp, Bloomquist, Olivo, Cruz, and Farnsworth for offseason crushes Branyan, Juan Rivera, Langerhans, Orlando Hudson, Zaun, Leo Nunez, and Ramon Ramirez (I think the salary is a wash, not counting Guillen’s contract that would have to be eaten either way)?

by Gopherballs on Aug 12, 2009 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions