Royals Lose Late to Tigers

the real test will be once MLB pitchers develop a book on him. But the early signs are encouraging. Without a doubt an immediate improvement on Getz. I swear I could see Getz watching his career flash before his eyes when they showed him getting ready to pinch run for Billy.

I mean, really.

But this makes me very happy. They shouldn’t be a good team, a lot like the ’03 Royals.

on the pitching prospects.

I looked at numbers yesterday, but they were season numbers.

. . . we haven't been mathematically eliminated!

I still get emotionally invested in a game where I’m sitting in the stands in late September, scorecard in hand, with a few thousand other people scattered around me. For that moment, the rest of the Royals’ record doesn’t matter; I go home happy upon a successful win.

at anagrams. Stupid Scrabble.

Racoon War!

I’ve thought for awhile that he would exceed projections. For some reason, people have overstated his supposed “negatives” all year. The defensive reports have mostly come from people who haven’t even seen him play, are just repeating internet babble (people said the same about Hos and Moose defense, which has been at least adequate). Thanks mostly to the way we communicate today (internet, message boards, social media), sweeping and absolute generalizations are made that just get repeated into becoming accepted truth.

I’ll always take someone’s first-hand opinion of a player into consideration, with some salt. But these guys that just repeat what they heard someone else say drives me nuts. I’ve heard people state something about a Royals minor-leaguer as fact because “Greg Schaum said it.” Greg is entitled to his opinion- but I’d rather trust my own once I’ve had the chance to form it! Greg doesn’t automatically know ANYTHING about baseball, just because he runs a website. A good look at his website tells you that he’s just another fan.

Not a problem which will prevent him from being an effective reliever, but it’s something he needs to work on.