Is it just me, or has Jim Leyland...

...offered "unsolicited praise" for almost every young Royals player with even the most miniscule amount of promise over the past several years? Did he not once compliment Kyle Davies---or Betancourt or Buck or Teahen? Apparently Leyland enjoys killing the Royals softly. - TL

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It is not just you.

by kansasjohn on Aug 8, 2011 12:37 PM EDT reply actions

This is just like every single year (literally every single year I've been watching baseball)

when the first time the White Sox play the Royals, Hawk Harrelson goes on and on and on about how “KC played us so tough last year” and how “oh boy this team is gonna surprise some people this year.” Literally every single season he just can’t stop raving about how tough the Royals are gonna be this year during that first game.

Doesn’t mean jack shit with Harrelson, Leyland, or any other old farts who just like to talk about them ballplayers.

Killing time until time kills me

by EspeciallyK on Aug 8, 2011 1:15 PM EDT reply actions

I will be a happy man if someday Hawk Harrelson complains in a broadcast that the Royals don’t “play the game the right way” and don’t look like a bunch of gritty gamers.

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Aug 8, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions

So long as ...

…we’re winning while he notes that we’re wining the “wrong way.”

"Sir,--It has been wittily remarked that there are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third and most aggravated is statistics." *The National Observer* (June 13, 1891): p. 93-94.

by timlacy on Aug 8, 2011 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions