Royals Amaze World With Three Game Winning Streak, Set Sights on October

by royalsreview on Sep 9, 2009 11:53 PM EDT in News Comment 30 comments

Yea, Detroit is still not very good. Especially big ups to all the boys tonight for beating Justin Verlander and upping Greinke's Cy Young chances 1% or so.

Thanks to the three game winning streak, the Royals are now at 54-85. Still 31 games under .500, but a 100 loss season is now much less likely. If that sort of thing matters to you.
Robinson Tejeda now has a 3.21 ERA, and is likely to finish the season with a higher WAR than Joakim Soria. Dayton knows pitching again.
Billy Butler is silly hot right now. Of course, he's still not good on the 3-6-2 double play, which as Royals Authority pointed out this week, gets turned about three times a season by most players. So a mixed bag I guess.
Does Hillman make late-inning PH, PR and defensive replacement moves more than anyone else in the game? It sure seems like it. I actually kind of dig this sorta of thing, except when it always seems like Willie Bloomquist and Josh Anderson are involved.
The Tigers are not good.

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My bet with NYRoyal is getting tighter. Teahen down to .739

Halfway thru the season I didn’t think there was anyway he would be close to .735 but a poor second half has his numbers shrinking. UGH Mark

Any chance Billy gets to 50 2b’s and 20 Hr’s? How many 23 year olds have done that?

I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.

by kcscoliny on Sep 9, 2009 11:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

not many, b/c of the doubles

I would guess

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't Pujols

hit like 30 home runs?

by NotAHippie on Sep 10, 2009 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

age 23 season for Pujols

51 doubles, 43 HRs, hit .359

insane

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Braves obviously knew something when their development machine took hin in the 12th round

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

shouldn't there be a "most boring dominant athelete" contest

between Pujols, Pete Sampras, and Tim Duncan?

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

duncan seems so bitchy to me

he’s out

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wish I’d taped Shaq. vs. Pujols. Pujols comes off as totallly nice, of course, but (I meant to blog about this) doesn’t respond to Shaq’s trash talk at all, which makes Shaq more subdued… weird unintentional comedy there.

Also — about halfway through Season 2 of Mad Men… are they really trying to make us feel sorry for Draper because of his childhood? And why do I always have a feeling something horrible is about to happen to Betty everytime she’s on screen and Draper isn’t around?

“My people are Nordic.” One of the best lines ever. Gordon should try that one out when people ask him why he’s moping around.

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

just looked up teahen's numbers...

he was hitting .227 /.270/.333 in his last 37 games coming into tonight

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's what happens when you underperform you "accustomed" levels

/Daytoned

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i love how the royals somehow beat verlander and king felix recently

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Anderson + Yuni = wins

its so simple

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

old school baseball

our middle is strong

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A rule of thumb:

if Dayton says somethign is really important, with a year that role will be filled by someone who is terrible at it

“defense up the middle”

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

or :

on-base percentage

I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.

by Warden11 on Sep 10, 2009 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Missed the game and thread

did the team seem to be weathering Alex Gordon’s terrible atttitude well?

It’s too bad about the double. Sam Mellinge said he needs to hit like Ryan Shealy this month. Because, you know, the next three weeks of PAs will definitelly be a significant data point for the future.

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hopefully

they just ignore him

lets just get through 3 weeks of his garbage and then part ways

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

not sure who screwed this season up moore

Gordon, John Buck, or David DeJesus

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

buck killed the pitching staff

DDJ the offense

and Gordon the team espirit de corps

by royalsreview on Sep 10, 2009 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jacobs and Guillen were fighting over who would get to give Alex his first "welcome back" hotfoot

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by devil_fingers on Sep 10, 2009 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

which is why we need TPJ back as soon as possible to put gum on peoples hats

Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures

by averagegatsby on Sep 10, 2009 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

gasp!

not my boy! Oh please, not my boy!

The Alex Gordon era - www.number4thesmirk.com

by CollininCalifornia on Sep 10, 2009 4:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

treydaddy manager of the year

dayton executive of the year. book-it, dan-o.

where's ross gload to explode the process?

by blue bandwagon on Sep 10, 2009 12:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Is that for the Royals end of season team awards?

by AxDxMx on Sep 10, 2009 1:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, but

don’t mortgage yourself to place the bet. I hear that it’s a tight race between Trey and Gibbons for the former, and Dayton’s fighting a furious 5-way battle for the latter.

This space for rent.

by jonfmorse on Sep 10, 2009 2:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love it when the Royals are winning.

63 wins, here we come!

www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage

by James Quinn on Sep 10, 2009 9:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

According to recent discussion on all the ESPN shows (and sadly, those people have votes)...

Sabathia will be the runaway Cy Young winner, “best pitcher on the best team.”

by andrewmiller on Sep 10, 2009 11:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

YOU LIE!

"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 Sep 10, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry, that was inappropriate

and actually was not even in reference to your comment.

"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 Sep 10, 2009 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why didn't anyone yell that during the Bush Admin...

Because they knew they would be picked up off the street and whisked away to some foriegn land never to be seen again. ALL politicians lie…. that is how they stay in office.

by grudz96 on Sep 10, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs