Royal Link Roundup: Actually Jose, You Are Done
by Will McDonald on Mar 17, 2010 11:09 PM EDT
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Royals:
- Guillen showing moxie this spring | royals.com: News
- Colón making a bid for top setup role in Royals' bullpen - KansasCity.com
- Royals Prospects " Minor League profile Brandon Sisk
Baseball:
- Fastballs and Change-Ups: Jimmy Rollins | FanGraphs Baseball
- Spring Cleaning – Players You Do Not Want to Go To WAR With - Beyond the Box Score
- Colby Rasmus and Dues-Paying - Viva El Birdos
- It's Time for Lastings Milledge to Produce - Bucs Dugout
Grab Bag:
- The Age Of Tackiness | The New Republic
- New Statesman - The End of the Party: the Rise and Fall of New Labour
- Scouting Report: Lehigh Mountain Hawks - Rock Chalk Talk
- Memorable Mizzou Postseason Moments (Part Eight): 1994 - Rock M Nation
- Changes in British Shipbuilding, 1455-77, What Worked and What Didn't
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I guess the Rockies had a lot of spring training injuries to thier relievers and
are looking to pry Cruz from the Royals.
Go Royals!
I guess their closer is gone.
Jerry Dipoto, the front-runner to be the Colorado Rockies’ closer, will miss at least four weeks and might be out for the season after being diagnosed Friday with a bulging disc below his neck.
Dipoto, a right-hander, had been pitching with pain in his left shoulder, and Rockies general manager Dan O’Dowd sent him to have a magnetic resonance imaging test to determine the cause. The results showed a C-6 bulging disc just below Dipoto’s neck.
Go Royals!
Blast from the past
Back in the present. Huston street is the closer, and although he might miss, I doubt they are going to panic buy because of it.
by kcbottom9th on Mar 18, 2010 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions
*miss a week
My typing has gone to shit recently
by kcbottom9th on Mar 18, 2010 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions
Let's do it.
Seriously. Anything. Just take the salary.
I'll bet they float well
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Ah, the British Navy
There’s a reason no one’s been able to capture that island in over 1000 years.
by billexgordler on Mar 18, 2010 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions
not 1000 years yet, it was 1066.
Go Royals!
William of Orange
successfully invaded and conquered England with a Dutch army in 1688, though 1) he faced little resistance as James II fled without a fight 2) he had some sort of claim on the throne since he was married to James’s sister Mary 3) he had a lot of supporters in England, including John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, who handled the palace coup part of the whole business.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
Family Legend Has
It that he is one of our ancestors.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 18, 2010 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
King Billy or Graham Chapman?
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
I looked it up on Wikipedia
William III can’t be one of your direct ancestors, since he had no legitimate children and no known bastards. That’s why he was succeeded by Anne, who in turn was succeeded by the Hanovers, who are still on the throne. In fact, he had no known mistresses, and may have been homosexual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
I Always Figured
It was bullshit, but it is still a family legend. There are plenty of other ways to be related to a person. It’s akin to disproving a conspiracy theory.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 20, 2010 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Sure, it's perfectly possible
that William III is a relative of yours without having been a direct ancestor. He must have had dozens of cousins and nephews and the like, and you could be descended from one of them.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
According To Burke's
Peerage, this guy is a relative, too.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/NORmontfort.htm
They trace every presidential candidate’s genealogy, and Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV. That’s my last name. His father was actually married in Kansas City at one point. We may well be shirt-tail relatives. It’s not a real common name in this country.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 23, 2010 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions
We've got no illustrious direct ancestors
The Confederate general Jeb Stuart was a first cousin of one of my great-great-grandfathers, who was himself an Confederate officer and the only slaveholder we know of in our family. The pitcher Claude Osteen is a very distant relative, something like my fourth cousin. None of us has ever met him. The Kansas City DJ Max Floyd is my dad’s first cousin once removed. When we moved to KC my dad looked him up, and he made it pretty clear that he wasn’t interested in any family reunions.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
or the way of "Moxie"
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 18, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
My charter supplied DVR is a Moxi
Its slow, but reliable. Gets the job done, does the best with what its got etc…
I agree
It takes a lot of spunk to call for a ban on the word moxie. I like that.
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by RoyalsRetro on Mar 18, 2010 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
By calling for a ban on moxie
you’re really showing your mojo.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on Mar 18, 2010 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
The piece on Colon is interesting
Hopefully his vastly improved slider is not a mirage and he becomes a dominant 8th inning guy. I had no idea he was capable of throwing 100 – glad that he doesn’t think velocity is more important than movement/location. I actually have high hopes that he’s the real deal this year.
Dear god...
the write-up on KC Hot Corner is go damn accurate I threw up in my mouth. Callaspo is going to be left out of the line up and Hosey is going to be squeezed in and there’s nothing fans can do but watch and weep. Like watching the 2nd WTC tower smoldering on live tv and you just knew it was going to crash to the ground like the one just before it had. Sickening.
Yeah
in retrospect, that comparison is unfair. I have watched the entire first season of Rescue Me in the last few days and it’s obviously skewed my judgement a little. The Royals shortcomings do not compare to that act of hatred, but the feeling of helplessness is where the analogies intertwine. I really think Callaspo is going to get less than 250 ABs to Guillen’s 400+. Someone tell me I’m wrong, please!
Oh, I also have to apologize to my friend, hcoguy, whose screen name was mistakenly used for my ill-thought opinion.
by i before e except after Grrr on Mar 18, 2010 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Jose called himself a "tough missile"
There is no way that doesn’t become a new nickname for him.
by Soria's Unibrow on Mar 18, 2010 2:28 AM EDT reply actions
maybe he's more like a "Nerf missle"
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 18, 2010 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
More like
a V-1 Rocket…short-range, largely ineffective at hitting anything, and seems to cause more trouble than it’s worth.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on Mar 18, 2010 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Callaspo has to play somewhere
His UZR/150 isn’t that bad, and indicates that he can handle 2B. Or 3B, if Alex busts this season, or gets moved to the outfield. Or DH. Doesn’t matter. I want to see him batting second in the lineup, advancing DDJ ahead of him and getting advanced by Baby Face Butler behind him.
It's pronounced Poo-ZHOLS in Catalan.
uh-oh....
“I’m going to DH sometimes but I’m going to play a lot in the outfield. And that’s something in my mindset, to show Trey I can play in the field and I think so far I have proven that. And I’m confident that I’m going to play, I’m going to get my 500 at-bats. I guarantee that.”
500 AB’s maybe. Some DH, a lot of OF, highly unlikely. Early signs of our next blow-up?
we've got to help him get his next contract I guess
by Will McDonald on Mar 18, 2010 9:10 AM EDT up reply actions
is it totally crazy to think that if he's back in shape and healthy he could be a decent outfielder?
wasn’t he an OK outfielder at one time? i’m not saying he IS in shape or WILL stay healthy — just a hypothetical.
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 18, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
He hasn't been a decent defensive OFer for quite a while
His last season in Seattle he was pretty healthy and his defensive stats were crappy. Even healthy, he’s still very slow. His range is gone.
The immoderate moderator
DM said that his days in the OF were done
So maybe this will be Guillen’s next blowup. And maybe that blowup will convince DM (or give him a public excuse) to release Guillen. (fingers crossed)
The immoderate moderator
Is there anything we can do to encourage that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vlCf-bz2X4
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on Mar 18, 2010 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Whatever our players want, they get!
If Miguel Olivo grumbles about starting, then he’s the starting catcher! If Rick Ankiel wants to play CF, then why not let him? If Moose doesn’t want to catch – why make him? This is all about making our players comfortable, not doing what is best for the team. I say we try to accomodate Jose as much as possible. If he wants to play shortstop while lying in a bed made of dollar bills, what’s the harm?
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by RoyalsRetro on Mar 18, 2010 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Guillen showing "moxie"
I guess Kaegel couldn’t bring himself to use the superlative “grit” with regard to Guillen. But moxie is almost as good.
The immoderate moderator
Michael McKenry for Jaun Cruz!
And maybe they toss in an A ball arm.
Coffee. The NEW Performance Enhancing drug for Sport's Writers. Just ask Ken Rosenthal.
Nothing about the $500,000,000 getting cut from Medi Care?
Where are the SR Citizen’s who always bring that up as an issue in the election year? This health care bill passes and all of Education goes Federal and Medicare loses $500 million…
Coffee. The NEW Performance Enhancing drug for Sport's Writers. Just ask Ken Rosenthal.
I like
That some of the critics of the bill decry the government takeover of health care (which I would actually prefer, but this bill doesn’t actually do), and at the same time decry cutting Medicare – the most popular government takeover of health care in American history.
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by RoyalsRetro on Mar 18, 2010 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions
I also like
that the 500 mil number comes out often without the context — 500 mil that was largely an ineffective giveaway to companies, not necessarily a way to help people with their health care. Let’s see if that cut actually has much of an impact on patient satisfaction in the medicare system before we fuss about it. It’s not like the drug companies are going to fight if we add “part D” again…
Jihad Jane was my Grandma's Neighbor...
I’ve stayed there before!
Coffee. The NEW Performance Enhancing drug for Sport's Writers. Just ask Ken Rosenthal.
.
banned ; )
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 18, 2010 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Roster predictions
I don’t think the Blake Wood piece in the Star was an accident. I think the Royals brass is for real. I think he makes the team. I think Brad Thompson makes the team. Not making the team – either Hughes or Colon, or possibly a trade.
End result? Plaza parade.
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End result? Plaza parade.
That’s all that matters.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
by Sweep_the_Leg on Mar 18, 2010 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions
So You're Saying
There’s a chance I could be the SS on this team?
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 18, 2010 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
With the possibility of Juan Cruz leaving
I think the bullpen gets younger. We have room for Wood and another lefty in addition to Osuna.
I like Thompson too, but the more I think about it and look at his career, I see him going to AAA, but being 1st in line to come to the show (where it all happens).
If you are choosing between guys with options and a guy on a MiLB contract and it is a push, I think you go with guy with options, because you can send him down later without subjecting him to waivers.
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