They are bad, but the Cubs and White Sox guys are worse. "C'mon Paulie, get a clutch hit..... Yes! High five!"

Royals down 3-2 in bottom of 8th.....Sweeney hits a two run shot to make it 4-3. Regardless of whether we win or lose this game, we're clearly playing MUCH better baseball than we did last year..and that is encouraging. Except for a couple bad innings here and there so far...we've actually had some good pitching..especially Bautista today. We're getting better.

I'm sorry..what was that?? I couldn't hear you...the sounds of your hitters crying because they stood no chance against the entity known as Ambiorix Burgos closing your *** out was drowning you out. Yeah..that's right...I told you we were getting better...but you keep on taking us for granted.

Oh, but good luck trying to avoid the sweep tomorrow and "climb" to 2-4.

OWNED!!!!!

You can put it on the booooooard...YES!

04/08/06 -- Game Recap

White Sox 3, Royals 4

Winning Pitcher: Dessens
Losing Pitcher: Pollite
Save: Ambiorix "Get the f*ck out of my batter's box" Burgos

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...chamlb_kcamlb_1

Game Summary: Great game for Kansas City. Got six extremely good innings from 25 year old Denny Bautista. Allowed one hit and one run over six innings, though he did walk five. Very encouraging performance though..as he has pretty nasty stuff and can realistically be our ace if he stays healthy. From the 'pen, Luke Hudson was impressive, Sisco struggled a bit by not being able to keep the ball down, Elmer Dessens got out of a big jam with a double play and was awesome for the third straight outing...and to close it out, Ambiorix Burgos struck out the first two batters with perfect 97 mph fastballs on the outside corner at the knees...and retired the side in order for the save. Defensively, Minky bobbled a ball..but other than that it was pretty solid defense...including two double plays. Offensively, Vazquez pitched very well..but we were able to stratch out two runs off of him with a key double from Sanders...and then down 3-2 in the 8th..Sweeney hit a two run homerun after Grudz's third hit of the game to give KC the lead for good. Only 7 hits altogether..but we got the big hits when we needed them. All-around good ballgame....which makes three good ballgames we have played now out of four..which is very encouraging. Also...Shane Costa batted leadoff and despite only going 1-for-4, had three very good at-bats and looked very good today.

Keep on taking us for granted ChiSox...good luck trying to avoid the 1-5 start.

(Gotta get my bragging in while I can....)



Surprisingly, they were stunningly silent when Sweeney "put it on the board" to give KC the win...funny thing.

lol~

btw...only reason KC won because white sox are not even as good as what everyone think them to be~

everyone think they the champ and since they improved their lineup...they would go back to the world series..

that is sooo far off~ it was the most miracle sox season last year so anyone that believes in garland or garcia or contreras will actually see the truth this year..

and oh yeah...konerko sukks, so does podsednik~

only guy that is any good on the lineup is thome..lol~

iguchi sukks too

so does uribe

and dye

umm...pretty much everyone

oh and the new guy brian anderson

oh..wait...and jenks

and cotts..

and politte

and lastly...guillen~

Yeah...that kind of goes without saying....

Saying Jim Thome is the only good player in that lineup is like saying Scott Podsednik would be best in the cleanup spot.

Except even more retarded than that.

But hey, keep on truckin'.

Koop you are KILLIN me lately. Who knew you had such comedic talent? I'm definitely gonna have to be a regular in this thread.



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Game Preview: Chicago White Sox (1-4) vs. Kansas City Royals (2-2); 1:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Buehrle (CWS, 0-0, 6.75 ERA) vs Elarton (KC, 0-1, 3.18 ERA)

Starting Lineups:

Chicago

LF Scott Podsednik (4 G, .059 BA, .111 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .170 OPS)
2B Tadahito Iguchi (4 G, .385 BA, .526 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .988 OPS)
DH Jim Thome (5 G, .333 BA, .565 OBP, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 1.365 OPS)
1B Paul Konerko (5 G, .250 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .633 OPS)
RF Jermaine Dye (3 G, .429 BA, .500 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .929 OPS)
C A.J. Pierzynski (5 G, .375 BA, .444 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .882 OPS)
3B Joe Crede (4 G, .214 BA, .250 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .607 OPS)
SS Juan Uribe (5 G, .235 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .627 OPS)
CF Brian Anderson (4 G, .267 BA, .313 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .713 OPS)

Kansas City

1B Tony Graffanino (1 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (4 G, .313 BA, .353 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .853 OPS)
DH Mark Sweeney (4 G, .154 BA, .353 OBP, 1 HR, 2 RBI, .814 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (4 G, .286 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .690 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (4 G, .214 BA, .313 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .813 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (4 G, .417 BA, .417 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .1.000 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (4 G, .067 BA, .067 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .133 OPS)
C John Buck (3 G, .333 BA, .400 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .1.067 OPS)
CF Shane Costa (3 G, .286 BA, .286 OBP, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1.000 OPS)

KK's Prospect Watch:

Alex Gordon: Went 3-for-5 with a double in his last game at Wichita, which puts him at 7-for-16 in three games. Has shown good power and a great approach at the plate, as well as showing a good arm and good range to both his left and right.

J.P. Howell: In his first start of the year for Triple-A Omaha, he pitched six innings, giving up zero runs on two hits and no walks while striking out five. Got some time with Kansas City last year, but is now getting some much needed time in the minors. Has very good potential..and will probably be with KC after 15 or so starts in the minors.

1B Tony Graffanino (1 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)


Koop - you should join Rob & Rany since they've been slacking off.

Is this really the best 1B that the Royals can put into their lineup? Unless Graff has some awesome historical performance against Buehrle that I'm not aware of - either that, or he wants to get as many righties into the lineup as possible.

Well...first off...Graffy is a fairly solid utility player for us..and those numbers are just from one at-bat this year.......so let's not get too carried away about that.

Also...he is just giving Doug Mientkeiwicz a rest...he's our regular 1B.

Graffy is fine as a MI utility guy - but you usually want to reserve 1B for your sluggers. That being said, I just looked them both up on Baseball Prospectus - Graffy had a higher OPS last year than Mienky even adjusting for their ballparks.

Maybe Graffy should be the starter..

Minky has a much better glove than Graffy...that's why he starts over him..and Sweeney has been our regular 1B, and he's a pretty good hitter...but he's pretty injury prone..so he's just the DH for now. We're fine in that position for this year...only "slugger' we could put their is 38 year old Matt Stairs....and we don't need that.

Game Recap -- White Sox 3, Royals 1

Winning pitcher: Buehrle
Losing pitcher: Elarton

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...chamlb_kcamlb_1

Game Summary-- Pretty good ballgame. Even though the Royals only scored one run...they actually hit a lot of balls pretty well, including three very well hit balls by Sweeney, that the ChiSox made some pretty good plays on, including two great plays by Crede to take away two ninth inning hits from us, two great running catches by Dye to take away two potential doubles, and two shots up the middle that deflected off the pitcher and right to an infielder...so that is six hits right there that were taken away by good defense and bad luck. However, Buehrle pitched pretty well..and our only run came on Sanders first homerun in the ninth. Defensively we played okay..a few real good plays but two errors by Berroa and Teahen. Scott Elarton pitched really well today, giving up only three runs on five hits in eight innings for his second straight good outing..yet resulting in his second loss. Even though we lost, we still played pretty well and didn't really beat ourselves..so I'm not disheartened by it at all. Nothing wrong with taking two of three from the ChiSox...hopefully we can keep playing well, and if we do keep playing like this, we'll be fine. We've faced five pretty good pitchers thus far (Rogers, Bonderman, Garland, Vazquez, and Buehrle) and came out 2-3 and played pretty well in four of those games..so at least we're progressing.

04/11/06--Game Preview: Kansas City Royals (2-3) vs New York Yankees (2-4)
12:05 CT

Starting Pitchers: Mays (KC, 0-1, 12.46 ERA) vs. Wang (NYY, 0-0, 3.86 ERA)


Starting Lineups:

Kansas City

CF Shane Costa (4 G, .300 BA, .300 OBP, 1 HR, 1 RBI, .900 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (5 G, .300 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .783 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (5 G, .118 BA, .286 OBP, 1 HR, 2 RBI, .639 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (5 G, .333 BA, .368 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .924 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (4 G, .143 BA, .133 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .348 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (5 G, .222 BA, .300 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .744 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (5 G, .111 BA, .111 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .222 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (5 G, .313 BA, .313 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .750 OPS)
C John Buck (4 G, .273 BA, .385 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .930 OPS)

New York

CF Johnny Damon (6 G, .308 BA, .379 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .841 OPS)
SS Derek Jeter (6 G, .348 BA, .464 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1.030 OPS)
RF Gary Sheffield (6 G, .250 BA, .308 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .808 OPS)
3B Alex Rodriguez (6 G, .320 BA, .398 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .953 OPS)
1B Jason Giambi (6 G, .167 BA, .423 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .590 OPS)
LF Hideki Matsui (6 G, .400 BA, .444 OBP, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 1.244 OPS)
C Jorge Posada (6 G, .261 BA, .370 OBP, 2 HR, 7 RBI, .936 OPS)
2B Robinson Cano (6 G, .280 BA, .280 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .680 OPS)
DH Bernie Williams (6 G, .222 BA, .300 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .578 OPS)

Mays needs to get his **** together fast.

Lol..he's out of the game now. He is an altogether sh*tty pitcher...and quite frankly, noone has a clue as to why he is on our team. He has pitched horrible EVERY single time in spring and in the season.......once Redmen comes back..hopefully he'll be gone. He actually only gave up two hard hit balls (Damon's double and Giambi's homerun.), but all those walks are just inexcusable. Basically..he sucks and has no place on our staff...we have better arms than him...he needs to be gone.

REGGIE SANDERRRRRRRRSSSS. Homerun. 4-2 now. If we can just keep this game close and get to the Yankee pen...we'll have a fair chance at winning this game...and quite frankly I'd be happy with just winning one game in this series.

Heh...just saw that he was taken out. Good to see that the manager has a short leash on him. Also good to see that Sanders is on his way to another fluke season...heh.

3-4 now....still batting. I'm tellin' ya....we're a better team...not gonna just lay down and go away after falling behind this year. Still a long way to go towards becoming a "good" team, but we're looking better and better...as long as we can just get rid of Joe Mays.

4-4 now with a base hit by John Buck. Jesus.....I am DEFINITELY not used to this kind of play from my team....I think I like it. Not that we are going to win...but just an entirely different feel to this year's team that last year's team.

Also, when we were down 3-1, I was watching ESPN News..and during their update on the game they said "well..the Yankees are up 3-1..it appears as if once again the Royals are struggling and it looks like the Yanks have this one all but wrapped up" IN THE SECOND INNING!??! WTF!??! Let's see what those mother f*ckers say now.

WE GET NO RESPECT!!

They do seem to be playing very well. Good series against Chicago and then come right back against the Yankees. Good stuff.

Well...we're playing BETTER anyways...too bad our pitching is pretty crappy today. That's what Joe Mays will do to ya I guess....lol. I just want to keep this close....

DOUBLE PLAY TO GET OUT OF THE BASES LOADED ONE OUT JAM!! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!

On a pop fly to shallow left field too...don't know how Bernie Williams got doubled off on second..but I'll take it. They aren't even hitting the ball THAT well against us...we just keep walking them. If we can cut those down I actually think we'll be okay....but that's easier said than done.

After five innings..it is still 4-4. Mike Wood has thrown 2.1 scoreless innings...looked very good except for 2 walks. I'm telling you..New York had better not let us hang around for too long...once we get into their bullpen........business could really pick up.

Bernie's going senile, that's why.

6-4 Royals on a homerun by young stud Shane Costa...we're in their bullpen now in the Top 7th.....I've been telling everyone we're a better team and vastly improving.......why doesn't anyone listen to me? We still may lose..I'm not getting ahead of myself..but we are clearly a WAY better team than last year and have a very good amount of young talent on the way.

And I'd also like to note that we're playing this well with our best hitter Mike Sweeney in a dreadful slump to start the season. He'll come around soon enough.

Heh...I've listened. I haven't talked smack about the Royals since the unfortunate Dejesus comment.

This game is fun to follow. I would love to see the Yankees blow another lead. Great for my fantasy team too. If the game's close, Arod won't do crap.

Another "fluke" RBI for Reggie Sanders. 7-4 Royals.




Eh..I'm not directing my comments toward you...just so you know. I know you aren't really one of those who was cracking on my Royals too badly. I can handle it for the most part, of course, but when we do well...those that make fun of me had better be ready for some retaliation..lol.

ELMER DESSENS IS A GOD!!

Two more scoreless...PERFECT innings....including striking out Gay-Rod looking.

This man has been rediculously good for us thus far. 7-4 Royals after 7.

You know things are going your way when Angel "swing like Vlad" Berroa draws a walk.

and now our usually reliable Andrew Sisco is in the process of blowing our lead. Just great......two walks and a ground ball single and the bases are loaded with no outs in the 8th. Well....we were playing great up until this point.

7-6 now..with runners on 1st and 2nd with one out. Sisco has struggled so badly so far...after being so good last year. God this will be a disappointing game to lose after playing so well.

And in comes the relief ace. I almost picked him up for my fantasy team, but somebody released Jenks and I had to take him.

And Jeter homers to give the Yanks a 9-7 lead. F*cking great. Thanks for all those walks Sisco. So disappointing. We game them a run for their money and are clearly a much better team....but holy sh*t Mays and Sisco were dreadful today.

Son of a *****. Oh well...not over yet.

Giving up 5 runs in the 8th. That's just inexcuably atrocious. Guess that's what happens when you decide to give them nine f*cking walks. Maybe those two guys will get it through their f*cking heads to quit being pussies and throw some f*cking strikes. F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK!!!!!

and the Royals offense continues to mount threats..which is extremely encouraging. Two on one out with Reggie coming up.

Ugh...I hate it when the Yankees win games like that.

The Yanks didn't win it. The Royals handed them the game. We hit better than them, and we played defense better than them, and we ran the bases better than them, and even when we threw strikes...we pitched better than them. The one thing we did wrong was walk too them.....but we went ALL OUT on that f*cking screwup. Mays and Sisco were ATROCIOUS with their control. The Yanks probably only hit six or seven balls well..but with all the free runners we gave them...those few well-hit balls cost us big time.

Game Recap--Royals 7, Yankees 9.

Winning Pitcher: Scott Proctor
Losing Pitcher: Andrew Sisco
Save: Mariano Rivera

Box Score: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/...7_boxscore.html

Game Recap: SUCH a disappointing ending...but still encouraging at the same time. Joe Mays and Andrew Sisco were atrocious...as all the walks they gave up cost us the game. However, our offense was great from top to bottom except for Mike Sweeney, and our defense and baserunning were fine. We outplayed the Yankees in their home opener in every aspect of the game and scared the sh*t out of them...but then Sisco decided to come in and walk the bases loaded and it was over from there. In their five run inning, they only had two well hit balls altogether..but got five runs thanks to us just handing them baserunners. That is flat out inexcusable. Elmer Dessens and Mike Wood (who will be our fifth starter on Saturday at Tampa Bay) were incredibly good..and once again the offense was very good......the team is clearly a much better team and with a lot of talent in the minors...we're definitely going in the right direction...but this would have been a HUGE win for us..so pretty disappointing in the short term. Hopefully we can get one win in this series though. Tomorrow's a new day.....

Just saw the KC/NY game highlights...I think they said the word "Royals" a total of one time....and said one of our players names incorrectly...lol...who the f*ck is Jeremy Buck!?!?

Boy..if I didn't know any better...from the way the highlights were shown/spoken of....it was just another "dominant" performance by the Yankees...and they sure "outplayed" us Royals..boy...their pitching was awesome and their offense was just "hitting the snot" out of the ball all day.....lol. F*cking ESPN....wouldn't want to show that the Yankees got pushed and had the sh*t scared out of them and that they really didn't win the game as much as the Royals just handed it to them.....

John Kruk on today's game...

"New York sent a message to Kansas City today. They said 'you aren't coming into our house and winning.'"

Yeah...some "message" they sent us there. Give them nine walks and a three run lead to start with and they'll pitch horribly and play a bad game in general and hit maybe six balls well all game and barely beat a team that they clearly overmatch...oh boy...you're right, New York was awesomely dominant today...the way they barely won despite Joe Mays and Andrew Sisco practically begging to give the game away...lol.

It is extremely obvious that the guys at ESPN did nothing more than look at the final score at the end of the game and just assume that the Yankees were "dominant." They won the game, but they didn't beat us...I wasn't all that impressed with them quite frankly....we gave them all their offense today. If we don't walk SOOO many guys they only score three runs at best.

Did you honestly expect them to say something bad about the Yankees? That's why I have pretty much given up on ESPN. I really hope that MLB does that the NFL and the NBA did and create a baseball only television network, and place it somewhere else besides New York.

John Kruk is a retard.

He'd probably admit that too. He always claims that he is nothing but "a hick from West Virginia"

Wow I certainly hope the Royals win 22-0 tomorrow in NY.

No, I was really just hoping someone would give enough of a sh*t to throw a compliment the Royals way for actually playing them tough on their Opening Day ANDDD taking two of three from Chicago over the weekend. I don't recall one positive comment about any of our games this year so far, even though we clearly outplayed and scared the sh*t out of the Yanks today.

04/12/06--Royals (2-4) vs. Yankees (3-4); 12:05 CT

Starting Pitchers: J. Affeldt (0-0, 13.50 ERA) vs. S. Chacon (0-1, 7.71 ERA)

Starting Lineups:

Royals

CF Shane Costa (5 G, .267 BA, .267 OBP, 2 HR, 2 RBI, .933 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (6 G, .320 BA, .346 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .826 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (5 G, .167 BA, .200 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .422 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (6 G, .348 BA, .375 OBP, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 1.027 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (0 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (6 G, .273 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .833 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (6 G, .190 BA, .227 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .465 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (6 G, .316 BA, .350 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .771 OPS)
C Paul Bako (1 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)

Yankees

CF Johnny Damon (7 G, .310 BA, .394 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .877 OPS)
SS Derek Jeter (7 G, .333 BA, .455 OBP, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 1.045 OPS)
DH Gary Sheffield (7 G, .207 BA, .258 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .672 OPS)
3B Alex Rodriguez (7 G, .296 BA, .406 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .925 OPS)
1B Jason Giambi (7 G, .211 BA, .500 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .868 OPS)
LF Hideki Matusi (7 G, .393 BA, .452 OBP, 3 HR, 8 RBI. 1.202 OPS)
C Jorge Posada (7 G, .269 BA, .387 OBP, 2 HR, 7 RBI, .926 OPS)
RF Bernie Williams (7 G, .273 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .652 OPS)
2B Miguel Cairo (2 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)

As long as we're on the same page.



Sportscenter was a little more complimentary.

If the Royals are improved and keep playing teams tough, taking series from stronger teams, then people take notice. They'll become a story and get the attention they deserve. Until then, most will be reluctant to go against conventional wisdom.

i'm actually watching this game on the YES network. look forward to seeing the Great Matt Stairs connect for 5 or 6 homers.

costa looked terrible in his first at-bat.

HOMERUN Reggie Sanders. And the Royals are rallying...

Yeah..the game is on ESPN today....but OOPPPPSSS....I live in "Cardinals country" or some sh*t like that and we're not allowed to see Royals games on TV....so I can't watch it. F*cking bullsh*t.

Anyways, yeah..3-0 after Top of 1st. We ain't a great team...but we're gonna play anyone tough this year and steal our share of wins.

quoted for truth

i put a finspot on the game when i saw Stairs starting, so GO ROYALS!

yankees suck yankees suck yankees suck yankees suck

And two leadoff walks. Just great. Yank Affeldt now. He's done. Mark it. Get Elmer Dessens in there and let him throw 9 innings..he seems to be the only one right now that realizes that it is okay to throw a strikes and allow them to hit the ball.

Told you. Affeldt is flat out atrocious. Good stuff with zero clue how to pitch..doesn't have the mindset to be here. Get him off the team.

....and its 3-3.

does affeldt even have stuff? i've never seen it. he doesn't throw hard and his location is crap. not a good combo.
at least dessens' name is elmer, and thats sweet.

He has a VERY good 12-to-6 curve...but he falls behind to every batter that he doesn't get to use it that much. Trust me, he has very good stuff...just no ability to pitch a good ballgame and thinks it isn't that big of a deal to fall behind 2-0 to every single hitter. He has SAID this in the past...don't know why he hasn't learned otherwise and why we allow him to do it over and over.

Finally Offeldt is out after 3 1/3 pitched..giving up six runs. If he would just throw some f*cking strikes the damage wouldn't have been that bad..two or three runs probably and a WAY less pitch count. It seems as if he will never learn....GOD I can't wait until Mark Redmen comes back and replaces one of these douches (hopefully Mays).

Royals offense continues to put pressure on them though...RBI doubles by Grudz and Minky make it 6-5 in Top 5th.....this would never have happened last year...so I am encouraged by that...but we need some pitchers to just throw strikes and pitch "decent," instead of giving high-octanc offenses free baserunners every single inning.