Royals Hold On Late Against A's

by Freneau on Sep 2, 2009 1:28 AM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

Yes, the Royals won a game that Kyle Davies, Roman Colon, Jamey Wright, John Bale and Kyle Farnsworth all pitched in.

Thank you, Joakim Soria and a flukey Royals offense that managed four runs somehow.

In an amazing/predictable turn none of the Colon-Wright-Bale-Farnsworth foursome was actually effective, but they cobbled together three outs between the four of them. Clearly, Gibbons is a better manager of insanely horrible bullpens than Trey Hillman.

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Gibbons doesn’t fuck around. If you’re a reliever and you suck, he will pull you a lot quicker than Trey would

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by BHWick on Sep 2, 2009 1:42 AM EDT reply actions

the million man pen pays off like that

i would not miss with gibbons

by Freneau on Sep 2, 2009 1:46 AM EDT up reply actions

I was at the game tonight...

I applaud Gibbons for the way he handled the bullpen. How many times in the past has Hillman left a pitcher in one batter too many and ended up giving the game away?

Having Soria in for six outs was a gamble, and he probably won’t be able to pitch again for a few days, but he does the team no good when he sits in the pen for days on end anyway.

A win is a win, and if it takes unorthodox strategies to achieve that, so be it.

by CaseyRoyal on Sep 2, 2009 2:12 AM EDT reply actions

he definitely had a short leash

maybe it worked

maybe it was all irrelevant… i’m not sure subbing in and out identically bad guys does much, especially since they all kept failing

props for hitting the game

by Freneau on Sep 2, 2009 2:19 AM EDT up reply actions

John Gibbons is Billy Bob Thornton in the re-remake of Bad News Bears

Gibby would be a lot more fun for a little bit. Let’s face it, Hillman has lost this team

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by BHWick on Sep 2, 2009 2:35 AM EDT up reply actions

after having my username on here mentioned on the postgame, one thing is for certain…

i’m going into the witness relocation program so Robert Ford can’t find me.

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by BHWick on Sep 2, 2009 2:48 AM EDT reply actions

what die Ford say about you?

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 2, 2009 12:00 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

he didn’t say anything, but Greg referred to me as “your friend BHWick” to Rob and I suspect that they saw the heart photoshop of Mike Jacobs and Robert Ford from a few weeks ago

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by BHWick on Sep 2, 2009 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions