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Plus ça change...
So much roster turnover, so little difference. Here are the Royals' records after 51 games in recent years: 2011: 23-28 2010: 21-30 2009: 23-28 2008: 21-30 2007: 19-32 Now, in 2005-2006 the Royals were a different level of really bad. The Royals were 13-38 through 51 games in '06 and 14-37 in...
Kansas City Royals Legend George Brett Honored for Being Honored for the Thousandth Time
KANSAS CITY - In a special on-field ceremony the Kansas City Royals honored George Brett for being honored for the thousandth time. According to team historians, prior to 2011's Opening Day, Brett had been honored 999 times since retiring from baseball at the end of the 1993 season. "This was a...
Forgotten Royals: Dean Palmer
You never hear about Dean Palmer anymore. That's quite the vague and anecdotal statement, but it certainly feels true. His name rarely comes up in broadcasts and the internet is no different: ole Dean has been mentioned on this site just four times (in stories) and in just 22 comments. Dude. Dean...
How Good Would the Royals All-Decade Team Be? Part 2: The Pitchers
The official team site recently announced the All-Decade Team. In Part 1, we evaluated the lineup, here we look at the pitching staff. SP1 - Zack Greinke: The 2009 Cy Young Award Winner headlines the rotation. Greinke made 136 starts in the '00s, posting a 3.73 ERA over that span, good for a 120...
So How Good Would the Royals All-Decade Team Be? Part 1: The Lineup
There was a recent story on the official site announcing the all-decade team. The selection panel was the following: Art Stewart, Denny Matthews, Mike Sweeney, Mike Swanson (VP of broadcasting) and Dick Kaegel. Looking through their selections, I wondered just how good the all-decade team would be...
Hal McRae, Racism, and the Disputed 1976 Batting Title
I'm teaching a course on the 1970s and the first assignment of the semester asked my students to analyze a magazine advertisement from the period. To make things a little easier, I picked up a box full of old magazines from a few Goodwills and a used bookstore. Probably ten yellowed copies of The...
Looking Back at the Top Royals Prospects for 2005
In 2004 Baseball America rated Billy Butler as the top prospect in the Royal system. Nice call. Butler has developed into a nice young hitter for the Royals, and still appears to have room to grow. (It's weird that no one ever talks about how Dayton Moore and his men told the Royals to take Butler,...
The Mystery of John Wathan's 1980 MVP Vote
I may need to create a "Notes & Queries" section on this site... I was working on a post discussing the worst catchers in Royals history (this came up in the game thread today) and I discovered that in 1980, someone gave John Wathan a tenth place vote for AL MVP. (George Brett, of course, won...
The David DeJesus Era
Have you been enjoying the David DeJesus Era in Kansas City? Did you even know it had been going on? I haven't been above sarcastically celebrating inconsequential players on this site before and in fact, most of the Honoring & Remembering Section might fall into that category. This post is a...
Early Nominees for the 2007 Andy Sisco Award
While certainly stripped of the romance of Cubs of Red Sox fandom, following the Royals means being preconditioned to disappointment. As Christopher Ricks once said of Philip Larkin, disappointment is one of the saddest words in our commonplace speech because unlike other dis words (disagree,...
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