Outsider Musings and Oddball Fantasy Baseball League Invite.
Before my true subject, I'd like to comment that I've been a lurker on Royals Review for the last couple seasons. My best friend lives in Lenexa (I'm in West Plains myself) and I go up and catch a game or two at Kauffman every year and I try to keep up with the Royals via this blog and Gameday Audio... and by the way.. BEAUTIFUL stadium. It has all the modern amenities yet remains cozy and almost has a minor league park homeyness to it. Don't think there's a bad seat there.
Anyway, It really seems that the tone in the last 12 months on here has REALLY gotten black. I mean last year, it seems nobody liked the moves but there was guarded optimism that things could conceivably fall together and a decent season might emerge from the chaos. I mean, even the Second Law of Thermodynamics admits that in a statistically freak circumstance, things can buck entropy and randomly become ordered.
This year it seems like people are expecting a 120 loss season. I'm not saying the mood isn't warranted, it's just ... odd. The two posts Dark Thoughts and Worst Decisions Possible are almost artistic pessimism. It almost seems that your blogizens are anticipating witnessing something - first hand and in the neighborhood - a calamity of Olympic proportion. Kind of like if you were in the suburbs of a city hit with a 10 MT thermonuclear device -you know you are doomed from the approaching shock wave, but damned if you can't keep staring at that mushroom cloud.
Anyway...
We've created a yahoo fantasy baseball legue, named in honor of Reds offseason pickup Aaron Miles. It's called the True Grit Baseball League, and is a retro roto league, if you will. Full writeup of the thinking behind the league is in a fanpost over here.
League settings summary: 12 team, NL only, 5x5 traditional roto scoring, auction draft at 9PM Eastern/10PM Central, Sunday, March 28.
So if you have Sunday night and Monday morning off, got a league that is tailor-made for people... well... who have Sunday night and Monday mornings off.
True Grit Baseball League
league ID: 273321
password: grit
We now return you to your regularly scheduled gloom.
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does it favor grit stats over normal stats?
like dirt stains or scrapes?
also, in the spirit of Darkness, FYP
and almost has a minor league parkhomeyness tobaseball team in it
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 2, 2010 5:27 PM EST reply actions
You wonder why we're so negative?
Maybe this will help explain it:
I mean last year, it seems nobody liked the moves but there was guarded optimism that things could conceivably fall together and a decent season might emerge from the chaos.
And that bit of hope was met with unrelenting failure. Included in that was a horrendous trade which saddled the Royals with a big downgrade at SS for years to come. And then we experienced another horrible offseason which confirmed that our GM sucked and wasn’t learning anything.
We’re negative because we recognize that the current team sucks and the front office is too incompetent to probably ever put together a contender.
And no, we’re not expecting a catastrophic season. We recognize just how bad this team is, and it is approximately a 73 win team (give or take).
So if your point is, “gee, why so negative?” Why the hell do you think?
Finally, as a moderator, from now on, put any “please join my fantasy baseball league” posts in fanshots, not fanposts. This is prime real estate.
The immoderate moderator
I do see why there is negativity, and It's definitely warranted.
I wasn’t trying to down anybody or anything like that. It was more an observation and I did go a bit overboard with it. Sorry ’bout that.
From reading the posting guidelines, I was under the impression that FanShots were for linking news/video/off-site articles that the poster thinks the community would find interesting. If I misplaced the FanPost here, I apologize.
Baseball Fever....WPS!
It's not misplaced
You used a topic that should be here to open you post, thus, it’s acceptable to non-moderators like ourselves.
Coffee. The NEW Performance Enhancing drug for Sport's Writers. Just ask Ken Rosenthal.
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I bought MLB 2K10 today… ITS FREAKING HARD!!! Opening day, Greinke gets shelled, and Verlander throws a 53 pitch perfect game
I love this time of year.... The Royals are always in first place!!!
Yeah, baby!
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 2, 2010 11:39 PM EST up reply actions
As far as the negativity here...
It eats at you. A lot of the optimistic guys get shelled and would rather just not offer any content. Thus, the negators, as your favorite radio show host Kevin Keitzman calls them, run the place. My comparison? A prison in Yemen that houses terrorists and normal criminals. You have your guys praying to Allah five times a day and the others making fun of them. The biggest bully wins. (If you have seen Traitor, that’s what I’m comparing this too)
My opinion: Royals board. Share opinions either way. Don’t attack people or opinions from a personal I must win this battle behind Dayton’s computer screen that I stole to have memorabilia in my moms basement. Instead, don’t make things personal. Other than that, debate, talk positives/negatives, but don’t attack fandom or person. Even though I’d like to break the legs of a few guys on here once in a while…
Coffee. The NEW Performance Enhancing drug for Sport's Writers. Just ask Ken Rosenthal.
As far as I'm concerned...
…you’re not an outsider, skcabrozar. You’re just as much one of us as any of these posters. There are moderators, bloggers, idiots, and lurkers… but we’re all fans. Thank you for posting. I am primarily a “lurker” as well, so I appreciate it anytime I see a new screen name and/or a new perspective on things.
The truth is, the team has improved in certain areas and there is some reason for optimism. If the Royals have as much good luck this year as they had bad luck last year, they are likely to make the playoffs! So based on that alone, I am optimistic… or at least hopeful.
Despite the so-called “darkness” of this site, there is a genuine loyalty to the team here. Sometimes you just have to use a bit of a filter. We despise DM for a reason, and I think perhaps there’s a universal, unspoken fear that if the “Second Law of Thermodynamics” freak season were to happen and the Royals advanced to post-season play, we’d be stuck with him for years to come because he’d somehow look like a genius to the FO. It’s just an observation.
Anyway, thanks again for posting.
by i before e except after Grrr on Mar 4, 2010 10:22 PM EST reply actions
Thanks - and I definitely wasn't trying to stir up crap...
…though reading the post again I can definitely see how it could bee seen as trollish. Didn’t mean for it to come off that way.
Baseball Fever....WPS!

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