Koop, I think it is time for you to write an angry letter:

Worst Franchise: Royals

While I think that things are getting better in terms of having a lot of talent in the minor leagues that is getting pretty close to breaking through to the Big Leagues and making this team much better, I can't say I disagree too much with their assessment. Our owner and GM have been pretty cheap/stupid in the past and continue to do dumb things, such as giving Joe Mays all the chances in the world when it's obvious his arm is dead, and by keeping guys like Steve Stemle, who is rediculously horrid, in the bullpen over a proven entity in Joel Peralta. With guys such as J.P. Howell, Alex Gordon, Justin Huber, Billy Butler, Andres Blanco, Mitch Maier, and Angel Sanchez showing themselves to be closer and closer to the MLB level (and Grienke and Runelvyz Hernandez can be thrown in this group too)...things will get better. However, we obviously expected to better so far this year, and thus far we haven't. Things are looking a lot better overall this year than last year, though so far it hasn't shown in terms of wins and losses. I was expecting/hoping to be a better team this year, and it still can happen, but realistically, I am just hoping we follow through with our plan to trade off Reggie Sanders, Grudz, and others for some MLB ready starting pitching come trading deadline time and then call up all of our prospects to get them prepared to be starters next year. In that plan, we are going well so far...but of course a few more wins this year would be nice as well..and that isn't going so well. So I would say we've been a pretty horribly run franchise the past 8-10 years or so, but I think we are finally getting better.

Yeah but how can they rate Kansas City below Tampa Bay? That just doesn't make sense.

Tampa Bay is getting a little better. They have a lot of good young offensive players...only one decent pitcher though. Really though.....the reason we are #1 is just b/c we are in the middle of a 9 game losing streak. If Tampa Bay were in that streak...they'd be #1...if it were football season and the Cardinals were 1-7...they'd be #1 worst....you get the idea. I don't really put too much stock into what ESPN says really......they generally don't have a clue. They RAVE about other team's prospects all the time as a sign of other organizations being good....but I don't recall them saying a word EVER about Alex Gordon and Justin Huber and others when talking about our minor league system.

The two NFL teams they suggested on the main page were the Cardinals and...the Lions?????? Because, you know, the Lions have suffered for so long and didn't have a solid run with Barry Sanders or anything.

ESPN had, has, and will always have a bunch of what-have-you-done-for-me-lately idiots on their staff. Hell, after making the playoffs for 20 straight years, the Blazers have missed the last three postseasons...they must be the worst franchise in the NBA too.

The Oakland A's didn't make the playoffs last year. THEY SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WORST FRANCHISE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yeah...ESPN is basically kinda retarded. They have some okay stuff...and I watch PTI and all that a good bit......but most opinions that come from that network are just kinda clueless/ignorant. Unless it is about a New York/Boston market or some other huge market..it seems as if they mostly just look at the final score/record and look at nothing else about a team and just say "sucks", "sucks," "good," "sucks," "horrible," and so on and so on.

Seriously, KC had a winning season like 3 years ago. Tampa Bay has never had one. They also suggest Detroit is one of the worst franchises around, and yet people ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE pick Detroit to make a run at the playoffs.

Yeah, it's retarded.

Do I think our franchise has made a lot of dumb mistakes in the past 6-8 years? Yes.

Do I think our GM should be fired? Yes, I would be in favor of that.

Do I think we are THE worst franchise in sports. No.

Also, Detroit isn't making the playoffs....or really get even close to it. Cleveland and Chicago are WAY too strong in their own division.

10 in a row.

how is this thread still alive when the royals are that shetty with a 2-11 record ?

Don't worry, this thread will be alive until the end of the season. I never claimed the Royals were gonna be a great contending team this year, I am just interested in seeing the organization as a whole progress, and even though we're playing extremely sh*tty right now, we are going in the right direction in terms of our youth (mostly in the minors) getting better. Of course I would like to win more games, but really, all I want this season is for our young players of the future getting better.

I am still upset that KCs only two wins are against the Sox... It kills me.... Any team besides the Sox: let KC beat you, PLEASE!!!!

2-12 eh, and I thought my pirates were bad. Um well I think I'm still right.

DAMN KOOP 2-12!!! even my A's are sucking but at least 7-9 in second place,

AHAHHAHAHAHAAH

wow this cubs guy is so clever...

04/21/06--Cleveland Indians (9-7) vs. Kansas City Royals (2-12); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Cliff Lee (1-1, 2.89 ERA) vs. Mark Redmen (0-0, 5:40 ERA)

Starting Lineups:

Indians

CF Grady Sizemore (16 G, .301 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .744 OPS)
LF Jason Michaels (15 G, .258 BA, .310 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .598 OPS)
SS Jhonny Peralta (16 G, .246 BA, .284 OBP, 2 HR, 7 RBI, .661 OPS)
DH Travis Hafner (16 G, .383 BA, .493 OBP, 7 HR, 14 RBI, 1.310 OPS)
C Victor Martinez (16 G, .413 BA, .449 OBP, 4 HR, 15 RBI, 1.148 OPS)
1B Eduardo Perez (9 G, .333 BA, .407 OBP, 3 HR, 9 RBI, 1.119 OPS)
2B Ronnie Belliard (14 G, .286 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .708 OPS)
3B Aaron Boone (15 G, .246 BA, .317 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .739 OPS)
RF Casey Blake (15 G, .412 BA, .500 OBP, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 1.127 OPS)

Royals

1B Tony Graffanino (6 G, .118 BA, .118 OBP, 1 HR, 1 RBI, .412 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (13 G, .280 BA, .315 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .735 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (12 G, .125 BA, .255 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .480 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (12 G, .239 BA, .255 OBP, 3 HR, 9 RBI, .734 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (14 G, .188 BA, .291 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .624 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (13 G, .233 BA, .261 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .679 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (14 G, .229 BA, .245 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .516 OPS)
CF Shane Costa (12 G, .263 BA, .263 OBP, 3 HR, 5 RBI, .763 OPS)
C John Buck (13 G, .233 BA, .314 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .681 OPS)

04/21/06 -- Indians 6, Royals 5

Winning Pitcher: Graves
Losing Pitcher: Dessens

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...clemlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Still a loss, but at least our offense showed some signs of life with 5 runs and 14 hits (including four by Sweeney...finally) and everyone pitched pretty well except for Elmer Dessens...who turned a 3-3 tie in the 7th to a 6-3 disadvantage. At least in this game it felt like we had a chance the entire game..hopefully we can at least keep playing competitive games...I don't really care about our record as long as we don't beat ourselves over and over with walks and stupid plays..and at least for today we did not do that.

04/22/06-- Cleveland Indians (10-7) vs. Kansas City Royals (2-13); 6:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Paul Byrd (2-1, 7.02 ERA) vs. Joe Mays (0-2, 11.68 ERA)

Starting Lineups:

Indians

CF Grady Sizemore (17 G, .308 BA, .337 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .748 OPS)
LF Todd Hollandsworth (4 G, .455 BA, .455 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 1.182 OPS)
SS Jhonny Peralta (17 G, .264 BA, .317 OBP, 2 HR, 11 RBI, .719 OPS)
DH Travis Hafner (17 G, .359 BA, .474 OBP, 7 HR, 14 RBI, 1.240 OPS)
C Victor Martinez (17 G, .388 BA, .432 OBP, 4 HR, 15 RBI, 1.089 OPS)
1B Ben Broussard (14 G, .349 BA, .404 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .846 OPS)
2B Ronnie Belliard (15 G, .300 BA, .344 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .727 OPS)
3B Ramon Vazquez (7 G, .167 BA, .167 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .333 OPS)
RF Casey Blake (16 G, .400 BA, .484 OBP, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 1.084 OPS)

Royals

CF Shane Costa (13 G, .268 BA, .262 OBP, 3 HR, 6 RBI, .750 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (14 G, .309 BA, .339 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .775 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (13 G, .200 BA, .308 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .641 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (13 G, .260 BA, .269 OBP, 3 HR, 10 RBI, .749 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (14 G, .222 BA, .265 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .554 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (15 G, .176 BA, .267 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .580 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (15 G, .269 BA, .283 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .610 OPS)
C Paul Bako (5 G, .200 BA, .273 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .473 OPS)
3B Esteban German (6 G, .444 BA, .444 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 1.000 OPS)

04/22/06--Cleveland Indians 5, Kansas City Royals 11

Winning Pitcher: Wood (2-0, 4.26)
Losing Pitcher: Byrd (2-2, 9.15)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...clemlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Great game tonight, finally. We've been playing a bit better the past few days, but it's about time we picked up a win. Offense was outstanding, lots of hits, drew some walks, and got a lot of big timely hits to score 11 runs on 11 hits. Mays started and actually threw four outstanding innings, before faltering in the fifth and giving up 4 runs and giving way to long-reliever Mike Wood. Wood then proceeded to take it the rest of the way in good fashion, only giving up one unearned run. Hopefully Mays can build off his good innings and get better and maintain longer, and hopefully we can learn from only walking two batters total tonight and cut down the walks permanently....as we only had one bad inning. Hopefully we can win tommorow's game and start to climp back up in the standings a bit (record-wise).

it's about time..

Go KC

04/23/06 -- Cleveland Indians (10-8) vs. Kansas City Royals (3-13); 1:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Jason Johnson (2-0, 1.83) vs. Jeremy Affeldt (0-2, 8.10)

Starting Lineups:

Indians

CF Grady Sizemore (18 G, .321 BA, .356 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .776 OPS)
LF Jason Michaels (16 G, .257 BA, .316 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .602 OPS)
SS Jhonny Peralta (18 G, .250 BA, .301 OBP, 2 HR, 11 RBI, .683 OPS)
DH Victor Martinez (18 G, .380 BA, .423 OBP, 4 HR, 15 RBI, 1.071 OPS)
1B Eduardo Perez (10 G, .346 BA, .400 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, 1.208 OPS)
2B Ronnie Belliard (16 G, .281 BA, .324 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .683 OPS)
3B Aaron Boone (16 G, .233 BA, .303 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .703 OPS)
RF Casey Blake (17 G, .397 BA, .478 OBP, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 1.081 OPS)
C Kelly Shoppach (3 G, .333 BA, .500 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .833 OPS)

Royals

RF Shane Costa (14 G, .289 BA, .298 OBP, 3 HR, 7 RBI, .809 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (15 G, .317 BA, .344 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .777 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (14 G, .188 BA, .298 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .611 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (15 G, .245 BA, .296 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .664 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (16 G, .189 BA, .281 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .602 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (16 G, .268 BA, .281 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .602 OPS)
3B Tony Graffanino (7 G, .095 BA, .095 OBP, 1 HR, 1 RBI, .333 OPS)
CF Esteban German (7 G, .455 BA, .538 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 1.084 OPS)
C John Buck (14 G, .242 BA, .316 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .679 OPS)



KK's Prospects:

Alex Gordon: Through 16 games for Double-A Wichita is batting .328 with a .405 OBP and a .999 OPS. Has 3 homeruns and 7 RBI. Continues to look very strong on both offense and defense, and is on pace for a September callup.

Billy Butler: Through 16 games for Double-A Wichita, is batting .310 with a .333 OBP and an OPS of .840. Has 3 homeruns and 8 RBI. Just turned twenty years old and already has what is close to an MLB-level bat, needs to get better defensively in left field...will likely also be a September callup.

Angel Sanchez: Through 14 games for Double-A Wichita, the shortstop is batting .327 with an OBP of .429 and an OPS of .890. Has 1 homerun and 8 RBI. Known for his good glove and weaker bat, he has had 7 errors already, yet is hitting much better. A good performance could make him trade bait for a good arm, as I don't think he has much chance at overtaking Andres Blanco for the future MLB shortstop position.

Justin Huber: Through 17 games for Triple-A Omaha, is hitting .352 with an OBP of .470 and an OPS of 1.173. Has 6 homeruns and 8 RBI. The only concern with Huber is his defense at first base....but he'll be brought up soon more than likely. He's ready.

Andres Blanco: Through 17 games for Triple-A Omaha, is hitting .362 with an OBP of .383 and an OPS of .883. Has 1 home run and 13 RBI. Known for his Gold Glove caliber fielding at shortstop, his hitting has been a pleasent surprise, and if he keeps it up, could seriously challenge Angel Berroa for the starting shortstop position in KC next year.

FYP

LOL...YES! How could I forget?? He'll be a starter for us for the next 30 years!!!







04/23/06 -- Cleveland 1, Kansas City 5

Winning Pitcher: Affeldt (1-2, 6.27)
Losing Pitcher: Johnson (2-1, 2.81)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...clemlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Great victory today to win the series. Affeldt pitched a great 5.1 innings, except that he fell behind too many hitters and drove his pitch count up too fast...but still only had two walks. After him, Dessens was magnificent for a couple innings, Sisco got his out, and Burgos faced the minimum in the 9th. Offensively, pretty good effort, with German looking good at the plate again, getting on base twice and scoring from first on a double by Buck. Also, Berroa had a 4 for 4 day and Graffanino was 3 for 4. On the other side, Sweeney and Grudz and Costa, our top three in the lineup, only went 1 for 12. Costa is still hitting .286 though with 3 HR's, so he is starting to make a bid for a full-time starting job...perhaps replacing Brown in LF. Hopefully with the Twins coming to town for three games, we can win another series against a division opponent, as they have looked pretty beatable so far this season.

In my MVP 2005 xbox game Andres Blanco is the starting shortstop for the Red Sox, and is pretty sick. He hits like .325 with maybe 20 homers and 20 steals a season. It's like 2011 or something at this point.

wow 2 in a row... Cleveland sucks haha

FYP. We're a better team than our record says, I truly believe that, especially if we can not walk so many batters, which we didn't the last two games.





If Blanco could even hit .300 with 15 HR ane 15 steals...that would be good enough for me....

haha of course you are a little better than 4 and whatever.. hard not to be.

What's with Sweeney batting like .170?

Just struggling..I don't really know. He's had a ton of line drives hit right at infielders and deep fly balls caught on the warning track..so maybe some bad luck too....but he's just in a slump. He'll snap out eventually...I'm not really worried about it.

04/25/06--Minnesota Twins (7-11) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-13); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Kyle Lohse (1-1, 11.57) vs. Scott Elarton (0-4, 4.07)

Starting Lineups:

Twins

LF Shannon Stewart (14 G, .333 BA, .377 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .833 OPS)
2B Luis Castillo (13 G, .404 BA, .481 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .950 OPS)
C Joe Mauer (16 G, .316 BA, .403 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .824 OPS)
DH Rondell White (17 G, .149 BA, .157 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .321 OPS)
CF Torii Hunter (18 G, .229 BA, .280 OBP, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .751 OPS)
1B Justin Morneau (17 G, .215 BA, .271 OBP, 4 HR, 14 RBI, .687 OPS)
3B Tony Batista (17 G, .279 BA, .353 OBP, 2 HR, 8 RBI, .812 OPS)
RF Lew Ford (12 G, .250 BA, .341 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .703 OPS)
SS Juan Castro (16 G, .280 BA, .308 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .608 OPS)

Royals

CF Shane Costa (15 G, .286 BA, .294 OBP, 3 HR, 7 RBI, .804 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (16 G, .297 BA, .324 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .730 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (15 G, .173 BA, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .567 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (14 G, .278 BA, .298 OBP, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .798 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (16 G, .264 BA, .310 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .688 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (17 G, .193 BA, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .595 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (14 G, .213 BA, .255 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .638 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (17 G, .317 BA, .328 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .711 OPS)
C John Buck (15 G, .250 BA, .317 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .706 OPS)

Get ready to get your bats healthy tonight with Lohse in the lineup, he is an abomination of a starting pitcher I wish we would dump him and put ANYBODY in as a replacement

edit -- if we can get past this rain delay

Pretty shaky first inning from Lohse..but he escaped. If Elarton struggles with control again...it could turn out to be a slugfest.

I thought you said Lohse wasn't good!?! He's looking fairly sharp at times today...we keep mounting threats and he keeps getting out of them....

I am shocked he's into the 5th with 1 run, career highlight for Lohse -- not over yet though -- he'll kill it soon enough

I hope so..he's given up 11 baserunners total through 5 innings, but he keeps getting the big out..lol.

04/25/06--Minnesota 2, Kansas City 1

Winning Pitcher--Liriano (1-0, 0.71)
Losing Pitcher--Hudson (0-2, 7.00)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...minmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Pretty frustrating game today. Got a great outing from Elarton, throwing seven shutout innings, but Hudson from the bullpen let in two to blow it. Other than him, great pitching the entire game. Offensively, we mounted offensive threats in seven of nine innings, so that's pretty encouraging, but we couldn't pick up the big hit whatsoever, led by Sanders, who was 0 for 5 with 3 strikeouts and 8 runners left on base. Much rather lose a well-played 2-1 ballgame though than a sloppy game with bad pitching. Been playing much better the past four games, and I still say we are a much better team than last year and getting better, but that 4-14 record is saying otherwise for now. We're getting better though, just need to keep getting good pitching, as we've only given up 22 runs over the past 6 games....so that 3.60 ERA over that span is much better than it has been.

04/26/06--Minnesota Twins (8-11) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-14); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Scott Baker (1-1, 3.31) vs. Runelvys Hernandez (0-0, 0.00)

Starting Lineups:

Twins

LF Shannon Stewart (15 G, .333 BA, .385 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .835 OPS)
2B Luis Castillo (14 G, .373 BA, .448 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .880 OPS)
C Joe Mauer (17 G, .322 BA, .408 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .832 OPS)
DH Rondell White (18 G, .155 BA, .162 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .331 OPS)
CF Torii Hunter (19 G, .216 BA, .266 OBP, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .712 OPS)
1B Justin Morneau (18 G, .203 BA, .257 OBP, 4 HR, 14 RBI, .648 OPS)
3B Tony Batista (18 G, .266 BA, .347 OBP, 2 HR, 8 RBI, .785 OPS)
RF Lew Ford (13 G, .250 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .683 OPS)
SS Juan Castro (17 G, .288 BA, .315 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .642 OPS)

Royals

CF Shane Costa (16 G, .302 BA, .321 OBP, 3 HR, 7 RBI, .850 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (17 G, .294 BA, .329 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .726 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (15 G, .254 BA, .274 OBP, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .732 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (6 G, .000 BA, .364 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .364 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (18 G, .210 BA, .288 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .610 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (17 G, .246 BA, .302 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .652 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (15 G, .220 BA, .273 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .653 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (18 G, .313 BA, .323 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .698 OPS)
C Paul Bako (7 G, .143 BA, .200 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .343 OPS)

The return of Runelvyz "Fat" Hernandez is going pretty well so far...four scoreless innings, one hit and no walks. Retired 12 in a row after a leadoff single. Very unexpected strong stuff thus far....we've actually been getting some good starting pitching the past few games, nice to see.

Going into the Bottom of the 7th, 3-1 Royals.

Elvis is looking INCREDIBLE tonight...only one run given up on 3(?) hits and zero walks......just an awesome and unexpected start from him....he's starting to look like the early 2003 Runelvyz.....that'd be nice to have for an entire year.

Let's see if we can hold onto this lead....encouraging stuff from our pitchers the last few days though...that's better than losing with horrible pitching.

04/26/06--Twins 1, Royals 3

Winning Pitcher: Hernandez (1-0, 1.29)
Losing Pitcher: Baker (1-2, 3.47)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...minmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Extremely great game tonight. Winning routs are great, but these are the games we've fallen short in over the past few years, and it is awful nice to get a close win in a well-pitched, well played game. Game was very similar to last night's game. In Hernandez's first start of the year, he was flat out awesome. Not that many strikeouts (1), but he just pounded the zone with fastballs and used a ton of well-times off-speed pitches to keep the hitters off balance for seven innings, giving up one run on two hits and most importantly, zero walks. Offense wasn't "great," but we scratched out three runs with a few big hits, which we couldn't do yesterday, so they got the job done. Great pitching, including a save from Burgos, timely hitting, and great defense (including a spectacular diving catch from Mientkiewicz) is a great way to win a ballgame. As I've said before, we are a much better team than last year, even though our record doesn't currently reflect that. 3-2 over our last five games, so hopefully we can keep playing well and just play some .500 ball for a little while.

04/27/06--Minnesota Twins (8-12) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-14); 1:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Santana (0-3, 4.81) vs. Redmen (0-0, 4.91)

Starting Lineups:

Twins

DH Shannon Stewart (16 G, .328 BA, .377 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .814 OPS)
2B Luis Castillo (15 G, .345 BA, .419 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .819 OPS)
C Mike Redmond (4 G, .438 BA, .438 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, 1.063 OPS)
LF Rondell White (19 G, .147 BA, .154 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .314 OPS)
CF Torii Hunter (20 G, .208 BA, .256 OBP, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .685 OPS)
RF Lew Ford (14 G, .256 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .682 OPS)
1B Michael Cuddyer (12 G, .185 BA, .267 OBP, 2 HR, 3 RBI, .711 OPS)
SS Nick Punto (13 G, .273 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .742 OPS)
3B Luis Rodriguez (7 G, .375 BA, .444 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1.132 OPS)

Royals

1B Tony Graffanino (8 G, .200 BA, .200 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .560 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (18 G, .319 BA, .351 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .795 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (16 G, .170 BA, .318 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .601 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (16 G, .238 BA, .258 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .686 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (19 G, .215 BA, .289 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .613 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (19 G, .299 BA, .309 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .667 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (16 G, .226 BA, .276 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .653 OPS)
C John Buck (16 G, .231 BA, .295 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .654 OPS)
CF Esteban German (8 G, .429 BA, .529 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 1.029 OPS)

04/27/06--Twins 7, Royals 3

Winning Pitcher: Santana (1-3, 4.45)
Losing Pitcher: Redmen (0-1, 7.82)

Box Score:
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...minmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Fairly ugly game today, but I guess we were due for one after playing much better for the past week or so. Horrible start for Redmen, but as a whole, our pitching was okay outside of that one horrible inning. The bullpen at least kept it respectable and did okay after Redmen bombed out of the game in the 2nd. Offense was decent, which isn't too bad against Santana. Defense was pretty horrible today, which combined with a lot of walks in the early part of the game and a lot of ground balls that found holes for the Twins resulted in too big of an early hole. Still a better game than the losses during our 11-game losing streak though, so nothing to get too down about. Hopefully Redmen can bounce back in his next outing and hopefully Reggie Sanders can break out of his God-awful hitting slump....on the bright side, Esteban German was good offensively and Sweeney had a couple hits and Shane Costa continues to look great.

God I hate ESPN.

Last night, Runelvyz Hernandez two-hits the Twins over seven innings, giving up only a solo HR. 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER. Hardly any mention whatsoever anywhere.

Today, Santana gives up THREE runs over 8 innings against us and all over ESPN it's "oh, Santana dominated the Royals today," and "Santana shuts down the Royals" and "the Royals had no chance against Santana today," and blah blah blah.

What bullsh*t. Since when is giving up THREE runs "completely dominating" some team. Since when is that an "outstanding" performance. Yeah, he pitched well today, but he wasn't "lights out' like they are saying....but I guess they have to manufacture all the Royals putdowns that they can. Funny they don't even care to mention that in the previous 7 games before today's, our team ERA was 2.66 (approximately) or anything like that. Can't bother to mention that one of our better pitchers returned last night and "dominanted" MUCH more so than Santana did. Wouldn't want to give up any props whatsoever when things are clearly getting better.

I'm done.

I can say I know how you feel, like last year.
I am surprised the Sox haven't been on espn more after their title. Boston is still on espn almost every day... I agree, Hernandez pitched a good game but today Santana got the recognition... There's not much you can do. Sorry

Yeah, ESPN is pretty much all about Boston and New York...pretty disgusting.

And it's not like I expect them to go nuts about Hernandez's performance, I mean, it was good and worth mention, but nothing too extraordinary, but just after watching Baseball Tonight, it's like Santana's performance today was the most dominant three run given up performance in the history of mankind...I mean...if he was SOOOOO dominant against our SOOOOO bad offense..then why did Angel Berroa take him deep?? And how did he end up just ONE run away from not even registering a quality start!??!?! Just retarded. I can handle them making their jokes about us, but when they gotta go to these lengths to try and make us look bad...it's just stupid.

http://www.progressiveboink.com/dugout/arc...ut4-25-06x1.htm


Funny Indians-Royals bit...check it out. (Read entire thing..not too long)

04/28/06-- Oakland Athletics ( - ) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-15); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Danny Haren (0-2, 5.60) vs. Joe Mays (0-2, 10.59)

Starting Lineups:

Athletics

CF Mark Kotsay (20 G, .266 BA, .348 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .741 OPS)
LF Nick Swisher (21 G, .333 BA, .422 OBP, 9 HR, 20 RBI, 1.186 OPS)
3B Eric Chavez (21 G, .293 BA, .386 OBP, 8 HR, 17 RBI, 1.066 OPS)
DH Frank Thomas (20 G, .194 BA, .266 OBP, 5 HR, 11 RBI, .696 OPS)
RF Jay Payton (14 G, .179 BA, .179 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .393 OPS)
SS Bobby Crosby (16 G, .224 BA, .250 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .595 OPS)
1B Dan Johnson (17 G, .145 BA, .230 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .466 OPS)
C Jason Kendall (18 G, .214 BA, .328 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .578 OPS)
2B Mark Ellis (19 G, .181 BA, .234 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .498 OPS)

Royals

CF Shane Costa (18 G, .310 BA, .328 OBP, 3 HR, 8 RBI, .845 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (19 G, .307 BA, .338 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .764 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (17 G, .193 BA, .329 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .629 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (17 G, .224 BA, .243 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .646 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (18 G, .250 BA, .303 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .653 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (20 G, .203 BA, .275 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .579 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (17 G, .232 BA, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .672 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (20 G, .296 BA, .306 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .700 OPS)
C John Buck (17 G, .214 BA, .277 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .610 OPS)

whoa, if I throw different pitches at different places, the batter won't know what to expect! why didn't I think of this before??

I found parts of it funny like the above part.