My Wife Would Like to Clarify

… and I thought to myself that some things are better left unmentioned.

yabuta? or is she talking about jin wong?

brayan pena, alex gordon
“i can’t think of who plays first base” – two minutes later “OHHHHHHHHH, Billy Butler!”
mike aviles (“but didn’t we get a new guy, some dominican”-betancourt)
fields, podsednik, maier, guillen, greinke, meche, banny
lenny dinardo?
“mike jacobs is no longer on the team, right?”
“joe randa is no longer on the team, right?”
kila kaaihue, kyle davies
“desi relaford isn’t on the team anymore, is he?”
“Ohhhhhhhh, the old catcher guy we just got…jason kendall”
“who played 2nd?” (me-Alberto Callaspo) “Oh, I like him!”
“that guy that was terrible from the Marlins” (Juan Cruz)
farny
“who was that guy that did a good job setting up for soria?” (totally stumped)

so, 16 of the 25 that will most likely be on this year’s team. one big miss (soria), a couple of little misses (getz and hochevar) and most of the bullpen, which to be honest is anybody’s guess at this point.

and this is why i married her…

Not sure what sport they were playing. She could watch football; she didn’t understand it at all, but Germans appreciate brutality.

says a lot about you, RR, I think.

Ummm…ok……..I don’t know the 2010 team yet, so these are all the Royals know:

Buck (he quasi flirted/spoke with her in Suprise, she’s smitten for life – Thank God he’sin Canada know, safely away from my lady)
Big guy with chin beard, Mike something………(Jacobs, I confirmed later)
Butler
Dejesus
Crisp
Guillen
Olivo
Sweeney
Frank White
George Brett
Soria
Greinke
Gordon
thats it, I can’t think of anymore"

Greinke?
“Executioner?” (sic)
Jones?
Smith?
Gordon (said with confidence)

ADORABLE.

Female sax player in my band for a few years. She was solely dependent on the band for income, so she hustled gigs all the time. The worst Super Bowl I ever watched was the Giants/Ravens, and not just because of the terrible game. My sax player booked us to play immediately after the game in Clam Gulch, so I had to set up and watch the game there. There were like 3 people in the bar and one woman had her kids with her, so they screamed and played with toy trucks and such on the damce floor the whole game. Incredibly, people did show up after the game and there was a good crowd for us to play to.

I said all that to set this up; when I tried to beg off the gig, explaining that I would rather go to a friend’s Super Bowl party, my sax player became very indignant and said “What, you’d miss a gig for a baseball game?” It must be nice in her world.

Greinke, Butler, DeJesus, Soria (who came out as “The Mexican”) and Hochevar (remembered mostly because we were there for his 80-pitch gem). In her defense, she’d probably do much better during the season; she does come along for 5-10 games, and did also come up with Buck and Crisp only to learn that they were now departed. Oh, and did remember Hillman’s name too.

I don’t think she was really paying attention.

When she asked if the smiley guy who flipped the bat when he hit was still one the team (Esteban German)

wait for it….
the Yankees. and could name seven or eight of their players, but only Greinke from the Royals.

sad panda

Zack Greinke, Gil Meche, John Buck, that guy who is a good hitter (Butler?), she can picture the shortstop, and Esteban German (that is a fun name to say – sadly no more).

When my 13 year old granddaughter stopped by I asked her to name the Royals. She started with the old guy from Pittsburgh (Kendall?), Butler, Callie, Aviles (she him in Omaha), Gordon, DeJ ( one of her favs.), MAIER… I think if they traded him she would drop the Royals, Pods, and Guillen. Then she hit the rotation perfectly… she thinks Kyle is dreamy. Soria and Farnsworth were the only relievers that she knew. She asked if Duffy had made it up yet. I think I have mentioned him once to often…maybe. She did pretty good. I think I might have a baseball fan on my hands.