The Royals just traded one of their better pitching prospects, J.P. Howell for Joey Gathright of the D-Rays........ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.......I'm not so sure about this trade. Howell has reportedly been having a lot of shoulder problems lately..so maybe this is a good trade if that is true.....but this seems to be a bit of a wierd trade. He'll probably help our offense because of his speed and probably our outfield defense too.......but still....seems to be a wierd move, but for now, I'll trust Dayton.

Gathright is one fast ************....

As an aside, congrats on 500 replies.

Yeah....our outfield defense has become infinitely better with him in CF, DeJesus in LF, and no more DEAD TO ME (LF) playing defense....so that's good. I don't like the idea of trading away one of our better pitching prospects to get him, but then again, Howell doesn't have that great of stuff and will likely never be more than a #4 or #5 pitcher.....so we'll see how it goes. I'm cautiously optimistic about it......


Also, whatever happened to greatwhite's proclamation that this thread would be nothing more than a Royal's bashing thread??

Thank you, thank you.

When you set goals in life, you gotta go balls to the wall until you get there...lol.



06/20/06--Pittsburgh Pirates (26-45) vs. Kansas City Royals (19-49); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Kip Wells (0-0, 0.00) vs. Mark Redman (3-4, 5.68)

Starting Lineups:

Pirates

CF Jose Bautista (32 G, .231 BA, .336 OBP, 8 HR, 20 RBI, .864 OPS)
SS Jack Wilson (63 G, .280 BA, .314 OBP, 6 HR, 22 RBI, .721 OPS)
3B Freddy Sanchez (68 G, .353 BA, .391 OBP, 4 HR, 36 RBI, .895 OPS)
LF Jason Bay (71 G, .300 BA, .424 OBP, 20 HR, 53 RBI, 1.009 OPS)
DH Joe Randa (27 G, .221 BA, .261 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .563 OPS)
1B Craig Wilson (64 G, .272 BA, .354 OBP, 9 HR, 30 RBI, .836 OPS)
2B Jose Castillo (66 G, .283 BA, .332 OBP, 11 HR, 39 RBI, .800 OPS)
C Ronny Paulino (51 G, .315 BA, .366 OBP, 2 HR, 15 RBI, .771 OPS)
RF Nate McLouth (68 G, .220 BA, .292 OBP, 3 HR, 9 RBI, .615 OPS)

Royals

CF David DeJesus (27 G, .260 BA, .351 OBP, 2 HR, 7 RBI, .761 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (61 G, .294 BA, .331 OBP, 3 HR, 16 RBI, .731 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (64 G, .267 BA, .347 OBP, 2 HR, 25 RBI, .725 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (51 G, .254 BA, .298 OBP, 9 HR, 36 RBI, .770 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (46 G, .250 BA, .329 OBP, 6 HR, 25 RBI, .783 OPS)
LF DEAD TO ME (62 G, .270 BA, .337 OBP, 5 HR, 29 RBI, .747 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (38 G, .234 BA, .272 OBP, 3 HR, 15 RBI, .655 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (64 G, .248 BA, .266 OBP, 4 HR, 24 RBI, .616 OPS)
C John Buck (50 G, .229 BA, .274 OBP, 4 HR, 18 RBI, .640 OPS)

Game Recap: Pittsburgh 6, Kansas City 10

Winning Pitcher: Redman (4-4, 5.95)
Losing Pitcher: Wells (0-1, 16.20)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...pitmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: After Redman spotted the Pirates four runs in the top of the first inning, it was a great game for Kansas City from that point onward. Ten runs on nine hits and eleven walks...pretty balanced attack including a big RBI double from Buck (along with his two walks) and a 2-for-3 effort from Teahen (with a walk). Mark Teahen has really been hitting much better since being called back up from Omaha....in 18 games since returning he's batting .315 with a .351 OBP and a .796 OPS.....so hopefully he continues to improve. Also pretty solid pitching after the first inning, with Redman settling down to give us five innings, Peralta good for two, and Dessens and Burgos worked an inning each to close it out.

I think every team in the AL Central won. Nice job Royals, you should play the Pirates every game and you'll do fine.

I e-mailed Bud Selig and proposed exactly this, but I haven't heard back yet.

Should be a good matchup tonight. Both teams are putting someone on the mound with under a 5 ERA.

I guess that's some kind of shot at Royals pitching?? You are saying our pitching is bad?? Awesome insult......except it doesn't have much sting coming from a fan of the team who's depending on a guy who is currently being outpicthed by all of these current Royal's pitchers....Todd Wellemeyer, Brandon Duckworth, Bobby Keppel, Elmer Dessens, Jimmy Gobble, Joel Peralta, Mike Wood and Scott Elarton. Good luck riding that near 43 year old 5.21 ERA arm to anything meaningful this year.....

06/21/06--Pittsburgh Pirates (26-46) vs. Kansas City Royals (20-49); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Ian Snell (7-4, 4.71) vs. Mike Wood (3-2, 4.69)

Starting Lineups:

Pirates

CF Jose Bautista (33 G, .225 BA, .338 OBP, 8 HR, 20 RBI, .852 OPS)
SS Jack Wilson (64 G, .279 BA, .312 OBP, 7 HR, 23 RBI, .726 OPS)
1B Sean Casey (30 G, .295 BA, .363 OBP, 3 HR, 13 RBI, .827 OPS)
LF Jason Bay (72 G, .297 BA, .418 OBP, 20 HR, 54 RBI, .996 OPS)
RF Jeremy Burnitz (62 G, .238 BA, .285 OBP, 11 HR, 32 RBI, .729 OPS)
3B Freddy Sanchez (69 G, .355 BA, .395 OBP, 4 HR, 37 RBI, .904 OPS)
DH Joe Randa (28 G, .233 BA, .271 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .582 OPS)
2B Jose Castillo (67 G, .280 BA, .335 OBP, 11 HR, 39 RBI, .799 OPS)
C Rudy Paulino (52 G, .316 BA, .369 OBP, 2 HR, 15 RBI, .772 OPS)

Royals

LF David DeJesus (28 G, .265 BA, .370 OBP, 2 HR, 9 RBI, .782 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (62 G, .290 BA, .328 OBP, 3 HR, 17 RBI, .723 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (65 G, .262 BA, .344 OBP, 2 HR, 25 RBI, .715 OPS)
RF DEAD TO ME (63 G, .265 BA, .335 OBP, 5 HR, 29 RBI, .737 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (47 G, .252 BA, .338 OBP, 6 HR, 25 RBI, .790 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (39 G, .244 BA, .286 OBP, 3 HR, 16 RBI, .675 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (65 G, .256 BA, .273 OBP, 4 HR, 25 RBI, .631 OPS)
C Paul Bako (29 G, .257 BA, .295 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .579 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (55 G, .201 BA, .305 OBP, 0 HR, 13 RBI, .545 OPS)


Why the f*ck is Paul Bako playing......what, our retard manager can't let a player who has a good night play the next night??? How can a batter ever get hot if he isn't allowed to play three f*cking games in a row...rediculous. Broke-Bako Mountain strikes again.

No sting. It's a good matchup between two teams that should be competitive against one another.

Mark Teahen has apparently decided he doesn't need a glove tonight.....two bad defensive plays have let the Pirates score 2 more....thanks Mark.

06/21/06--Pittsburgh 4, Royals 6 (THE GATHRIGHT ERA BEGINS?)

Winning Pitcher: Dessens (4-6, 3.89)
Losing Pitcher: Torres (2-4, 4.60)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...pitmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Good win again for the Royals, who have been playing fairly well lately. Wood was let down big time by the defense in the first couple innings and thus was charged with four runs (two earned). However, he pitched fairly well, inducing a lot of ground balls. The offense was pretty good in the comeback, especially Mark Teahen, who hit a big go-ahead home run and newcomer Joey Gathright, who got on base twice in three at-bats...including a beautiful bunt single.....Burgos got the save in the 9th by getting Jason Bay to ground into a double play with the tying run on base....good game all around except for the defense in the first two innings.

06/22/06--Pittsburgh Pirates (26-47) vs. Kansas City Royals (21-49); 1:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Paul Malholm (2-5, 4.50) vs. Scott Elarton (2-8, 5.09)

Starting Lineups:

Pirates

CF Jose Bautista (34 G, .235 BA, .348 OBP, 8 HR, 20 RBI, .870 OPS)
SS Jack Wilson (65 G, .282 BA, .317 OBP, 7 HR, 23 RBI, .733 OPS)
1B Sean Casey (31 G, .287 BA, .364 OBP, 3 HR, 14 RBI, .817 OPS)
LF Jason Bay (73 G, .292 BA, .415 OBP, 20 HR, 54 RBI, .984 OPS)
2B Freddy Sanchez (70 G, .353 BA, .393 OBP, 4 HR, 37 RBI, .901 OPS)
RF Craig Wilson (66 G, .271 BA, .355 OBP, 10 HR, 32 RBI, .848 OPS)
DH Joe Randa (29 G, .226 BA, .270 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .571 OPS)
2B Jose Castillo (68 G, .284 BA, .337 OBP, 11 HR, 40 RBI, .806 OPS)
C Humberto Cota (21 G, .213 BA, .273 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .502 OPS)

Royals

DH Esteban German (44 G, .310 BA, .405 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .765 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (63 G, .294 BA, .331 OBP, 3 HR, 18 RBI, .728 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (52 G, .255 BA, .300 OBP, 9 HR, 37 RBI, .770 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (64 G, .270 BA, .337 OBP, 5 HR, 30 RBI, .746 OPS)
1B Tony Graffanino (47 G, .233 BA, .290 OBP, 3 HR, 17 RBI, .637 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (40 G, .254 BA, .299 OBP, 4 HR, 18 RBI, .717 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (66 G, .256 BA, .273 OBP, 4 HR, 26 RBI, .628 OPS)
C John Buck (51 G, .232 BA, .286 OBP, 4 HR, 20 RBI, .660 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (56 G, .210 BA, .311 OBP, 0 HR, 13 RBI, .559 OPS)

Wow, the Pirates suck. Too small of a sample size, but the Royals might be better than one team.

No, the Royals are definitely a better team now that we've improved out outfield defense, changed our pitching staff around significantly, and a lot of our younger hitters are starting to come on strong....we're better than the Pirates. We still suck overall though..but maybe we'll be able to build our record up to being somewhat respectable.




I'm going to the Omaha Royals vs. Iowa Cubs game tonight, so I'll get to see some prospects in action.

My almost hometown Omaha Royals you say?

Yeah, they are in Des Moines tonight..and that's where I live now, so I'm gonna go check out Huber, Guiel (a personal fave of mine) and Denny Bautista is pitching....so it will either be a really really good game or really really horrendously bad....either way, I'll report what I see.

Observations from Omaha Royals-Iowa Cubs game....

A. Holy sh*t Denny Bautista's legs are tiny. His deliverly is all shoulder/arm..that's not a good thing....he struggled again today and he's just flat out gotta change some things if he ever wants to be a good major league pitcher. He's got the stuff...he was unhittable the 4-5 batters last night where he was "on," but he is just way too inconsistent.

B. Justin Huber is in a huge slump....just looks lost up there right now.

C. 22-year old reliever Leo Nunez looked lights out...he's been pitching awesome in Omaha at a pretty young age....very impressive stuff from him. He made the first two batters he faced look like Little Leaguers.

D. Aaron Guiel rules.

06/24/06--Milwaukee Brewers (37-37) vs. Kansas City Royals (22-50); 6:10 pm

Starting Pitchers: Doug Davis (4-4, 4.69) vs. Brandon Duckworth (0-1, 3.18)

Starting Lineups:

Brewers

2B Rickie Weeks (69 G, .291 BA, .375 OBP, 7 HR, 22 RBI, .797 OPS)
3B Corey Koskie (64 G, .268 BA, .352 OBP, 9 HR, 26 RBI, .849 OPS)
DH Carlos Lee (74 G, .273 BA, .343 OBP, 23 HR, 59 RBI, .915 OPS)
1B Prince Fielder (72 G, .298 BA, .353 OBP, 14 HR, 40 RBI, .895 OPS)
SS Bill Hall (65 G, .270 BA, .319 OBP, 15 HR, 36 RBI, .898 OPS)
RF Geoff Jenkins (71 G, .261 BA, .332 OBP, 7 HR, 41 RBI, .734 OPS)
C Damien Miller (54 G, .257 BA, .328 OBP, 5 HR, 24 RBI, .774 OPS)
LF Gabe Gross (64 G, .224 BA, .320 OBP, 6 HR, 16 RBI, .790 OPS)
CF Brady Clark (71 G, .281 BA, .375 OBP, 2 HR, 16 RBI, .719 OPS)

Royals

CF David DeJesus (29 G, .257 BA, .361 OBP, 2 HR, 9 RBI, .761 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (64 G, .292 BA, .331 OBP, 3 HR, 20 RBI, .724 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (53 G, .255 BA, .306 OBP, 9 HR, 37 RBI, .771 OPS)
LF DEAD TO ME (65 G, .272 BA, .338 OBP, 5 HR, 33 RBI, .755 OPS)
3B Tony Graffanino (48 G, .247 BA, .301 OBP, 3 HR, 20 RBI, .665 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (67 G, .262 BA, .345 OBP, 2 HR, 25 RBI, .718 OPS)
C John Buck (52 G, .242 BA, .306 OBP, 5 HR, 21 RBI, .708 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (67 G, .252 BA, .272 OBP, 4 HR, 26 RBI, .621 OPS)
DH Esteban German (45 G, .327 OBP, .421 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .806 OPS)


Why is Joey Gathright not playing? Who the f*ck knows. Why isn't Mark Teahen playing? Who the f*ck knows. What has Graffanino done to deserve so much playing time? Who the f*ck knows.

his solid .301 OBP of course

Buddy Bell doesn't know what OBP stands for.






















I THINK I am joking....but I 100% honestly wouldn't be surprised......

06/24/06--Brewers 5, Royals 6

Winning Pitcher: Duckworth (1-1, 4.96)
Losing Pitcher: (4-5, 4.82)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...milmlb_kcamlb_1


Game Recap: Great win for KC tonight. Duckworth was shaky but at least got through five with the lead. DeJesus had a nice game, going 3 for 5 with a huge two run double and the bullpen was excellent...as Dessens, Gobble, and Burgos combined for four innings of shutout relief on only two hits. Burgos was particularly good in working through the heart of the order to protect the one run lead. Good stuff tonight, besided the one four run inning for the Brewers. Would be nice to get the series win tomorrow...Redman has won four straight..so it's possible.

06/25/06 -- Milwaukee Brewers (37-38) vs. Kansas City Royals (23-50); 1:10 pm

Starting Pitchers: Rick Helling (0-1. 11.81) vs. Mark Redman (4-4, 5.95)

Starting Lineups:

Brewers

DH Rickie Weeks (70 G, .290 BA, .376 OBP, 7 HR, 24 RBI, .797 OPS)
SS Chris Barnwell (3 G, .250 BA, .400 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .650 OPS)
LF Carlos Lee (75 G, .275 BA, .342 OBP, 23 HR, 60 RBI, .906 OPS)
1B Prince Fielder (73 G, .292 BA, .348 OBP, 14 HR, 40 RBI, .876 OPS)
2B Jeff Cirillo (50 G, .319 BA, .396 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .832 OPS)
3B Corey Koskie (65 G, .265 BA, .346 OBP, 10 HR, 29 RBI, .843 OPS)
RF Corey Hart (26 G, .371 BA, .421 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .850 OPS)
CF Brady Clark (72 G, .279 BA, .379 OBP, 2 HR, 17 RBI, .720 OPS)
C Chad Moeller (25 G, .200 BA, .253 OBP, 2 HR, 5 RBI, .559 OPS)

Royals

CF David DeJesus (31 G, .270 BA, .364 OBP, 2 HR, 11 RBI, .781 OPS)
2B Tony Graffanino (50 G, .248 BA, .305 OBP, 4 HR, 21 RBI, .690 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (69 G, .263 BA, .346 OBP, 2 HR, 26 RBI, .721 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (49 G, .246 BA, .329 OBP, 6 HR, 26 RBI, .766 OPS)
RF DEAD TO ME (66 G, .268 BA, .333 OBP, 5 HR, 33 RBI, .743 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (42 G, .252 BA, .294 OBP, 4 HR, 19 RBI, .700 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (68 G, .253 BA, .275 OBP, 4 HR, 27 RBI, .625 OPS)
C Paul Bako (30 G, .244 BA, .280 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .550 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (60 G, .209 BA, .314 OBP, 0 HR, 13 RBI, .559 OPS)

Pathetic that Graffanino is starting at 2B over Esteban German. Why play your younger and potential future starting 2B for years to come who is sporting a .421 OBP when you can give old utilityman Graffanino more at-bats. Wow our manager is f*cking retarded. Pathetic. Funny how he's punishing German for having a "poor glove" despite judging the second baseman ONLY on his performance in center field..a position he had NEVER, not ONCE, played before Bell throws him out there this season..and then punishes him when he makes an couple mistakes out there....just retarded. Put Mark Grudzielanek in LF and lets see how he does....oh, he misjudged one ball, guess he's a defensive liability and had better never play regularly again.

06/25/06--Milwaukee 0, Kansas City 6

Winning Pitcher: Redman (5-4, 5.35)
Losing Pitcher: Helling (0-2, 8.64)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...milmlb_kcamlb_1


Game Recap: Great win for the Royals today..to win our third straight series, all against NL Central teams. Got 7 shutout innings from Redman today as he won his 5th straight game and the offense was very balanced and very effective, as only Teahen and DEAD TO ME (SS) were hitless. 13 hits and 7 walks for the other seven guys, including Mientkiewicz going 3 for 3 with a walk, a sacrifice fly, 3 RBIs overall and a double. Peralta and especially Gobble were great from the pen and overall the Royals have really started to play better in winning 8 of their last 11, so that's nice to see.


Question. The Royals are now 7-5 against the National League this year...what would our record be if we were in the National League. Based on recent events, I'd have to think it'd be noticably better....perhaps we'd be 30-46 or 32-44 or something like that....maybe even better. We play Cincy and St. Louis on the road the next two series though, so that Interleague record could drop to .500 or below, but hopefully we can steal a series on the road again.

Good question. There's a discussion of the difference between the leagues over at SoSH and it's been suggested that moving an AL team over the the NL would add ten wins to the team over the course of a season. So a 52-110 Royals team would only lose 100 in the National League. I would guess that improvements wouldn't be uniform for all teams and that a team like the Royals would actually benefit more than those 10 games, but I can't really back that up with anything.

It's a good dicussion and the Royals get some love on the second page....not much, but some.

I'd say 10 wins a year would be a pretty good number to start at, but the AL Central is arguably the toughest division (pretty close with the AL East anyways as of now) and the NL Central may be the weakest right now in the NL...I mean...the Cards are good..but the Reds as the second best team in that division?? Ehh...I don't know..I might be inclined to think that if the Royals were in the NL Central instead of the AL Central there might be an even bigger difference...but really it's too tough to say. We'll see what our record ends up being this year, because if we keep playing like we are right now the rest of the way (which is a longshot, but still, there's hope) then we may even be able to avoid 100 losses. That's unlikely, but it'd be nice to just improve as the year goes on..b/c when Gordon and Butler and others get here....the offense is gonna be enormously better...along with getting a lot healthier with DeJesus and MacDougal and Grienke and adding more time for Gathright and German..and no more Berroa hopefully....future is definitely brighter in KC than most people think....hopefully it's starting to produce some results soon.

Royals pwn the Pirates

GO AL CENTRAL!

Ho hum..Ho hum..another win for the Royals over the NL Centrall..yet with a twist..it was on the road.

Funny all those Royal bashers seem to absent the past couple weeks. The Royals are really playing some 'ball....despite their retarded manager.


06/27/06 -- Cincinnati 7, Kansas City 8

Winning Pitcher: Affeldt (3-5, 6.99)
Losing Pitcher: Coffey (3-2, 2.61)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...kcamlb_cinmlb_1

Game Recap: Royals down 5-1 after three innings....we had them right where we want them. Royals came back to take a 7-5 lead with a great offensive effort (most notably by DEAD TO ME (LF)) and then after the Reds tied it..Matt Stairs hit a huge two out pinch hit two run home run to take the lead..and Burgos got the save. Royals really been playing some good baseball lately....our record for June is 12-12 (pretty good for a team with a sub .250 winning percentage not too long ago) and our last ten games we are 8-2....all against the NL Central..so hopefully we can carry this on to the AL and keep improving our record. At least we've gotten to the .333 winning percentage now..hopefully we'll keep playing well.

you wanna check that score again? Sure it wasn't 9-8. Still, nice win. AL Central continued our dominance yesterday going 5 for 5, just like my boy Joe

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I'm not gonna change it...mistakes in artwork increase their value.


AL Central is smacking the sh*t out of the NL this year.....I just wonder how my Royals will fare once we get back to the AL....

nice, my pirates were doing ok there for awhile, but losing 12 straight (tying a franchise record) puts them at the .333 mark also (26-52). At least it's not so lonely at the bottom. Sweeping us musta got your guys on a role and the bleeding isn't gonna stop for mine with the White Sox followed by the Tigers coming to town.

.300 ball?

Going from .800 ball to .300 ball..that'd be a pretty harsh drop. We'll see....

Let's go KC!

hey koop hows that indians world series pick looking?

I still think the Indians are going to make a run. Their pitching is stabilizing a bit and their offense is just too good to not get hot. I'm keeping the faith...


...as for the Royals....looks like a good win tonight for the boys in blue. Bases loaded for the Cards in the bottom of the 9th, tie game, only one out...who do we bring in to save our asses?!?!?


St. Louis....meet Burgos. Ambiorix Burgos.



Back to back strikeouts to shut them down...awesome. He's been inconsistent a lot more than I'd like, but when he is on and can control his stuff somewhat..he's nasty...as seen tonight.

07/01/06--Kansas City Royals 26-52) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (43-35); 6:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Mark Redman (5-4, 5.35) vs. Sidney Ponson (4-3, 4.95)

Starting Lineups:

Royals

LF David DeJesus (36 G, .294 BA, .389 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .859 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (70 G, .279 BA, .316 OBP, 3 HR, 23 RBI, .690 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (74 G, .270 BA, .348 OBP, 4 HR, 34 RBI, .749 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (59 G, .249 BA, .302 OBP, 9 HR, 38 RBI, .745 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (47 G, .252 BA, .298 OBP, 5 HR, 20 RBI, .707 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (73 G, .243 BA, .264 OBP, 4 HR, 27 RBI, .602 OPS)
C Paul Bako (33 G, .244 BA, .300 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .568 OPS)
CF *Joey Gathright (8 G, .389 BA, .522 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 1.022 OPS)
P Mark Redman (0 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)

* Kansas City numbers only

Cardinals

SS David Eckstein (74 G, .320 BA, .379 OBP, 1 HR, 18 RBI, .755 OPS)
LF Scott Spiezio (56 G, .279 BA, .373 OBP, 3 HR, 22 RBI, .808 OPS)
1B Albert Pujols (61 G, .304 BA, .432 OBP, 26 HR, 67 RBI, 1.138 OPS)
3B Scott Rolen (67 G, .347 BA, .414 OBP, 10 HR, 50 RBI, .988 OPS)
RF Juan Encarnacion (75 G, .283 BA, .308 OBP, 10 HR, 44 RBI, .776 OPS)
2B Hector Luna (57 G, .322 BA, .370 OBP, 3 HR, 14 RBI, .820 OPS)
C Yadier Molina (62 G, .210 BA, .261 OBP, 2 HR, 27 RBI, .555 OPS)
CF So Taguchi (70 G, .285 BA, .344 OBP, 2 HR, 26 RBI, .709 OPS)
P Sidney Ponson (10 G, .273 BA, .429 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .701 OPS)

Tied 7-7 going into the bottom of the 10th. Have had two runs lost at home plate..so that sucks, but we could have this game won anyways, if not for our super-retarded manager. Bases loaded with two outs in the 8th inning, we have just taken a 7-6 lead...and DEAD TO ME (SS) comes to the plate. With Stairs, who hits righties VERY well on the bench AND Graffanino on the bench, who can play SS, does he make the extremely obvious move of letting Stairs hit? Hell no...our retard manager lets the guy with the sub .600 OPS hit with the game on the line.

F*cking retarded.

UNREAL.

The Cards loaded the bases against Luke Hudson in the 10th..and the Royals got out of it..including Eckstein trying a squeeze bunt with two strikes and fouling/striking out....holy sh*t what a game this has been.

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What a f*cking game...Royals win 8-7 after escaping that incredible jam (bases loaded in 10th, noone out....) and Mark Teahen with the game-winning Homerun off of Izzy....wow. No game recap or anything tonight...I'm exhausted..this is surreal how we just won this game. What an amazing win..we didn't play that well..we lost two runs at the plate, our manager did whatever possible to force us to lose...but we found a way. Not used to that here in KC....pretty special win for us tonight. We are becoming a pretty decent team right now...don't know how long it will last....but I'm enjoying it now.

Congrats to Mark Redman, 2006 American League All-Star



:looks up at the bacon flying over my head:

Mark Redman is a poor choice..it likely should be Emil Brown...even though I dislike him, he has been hot lately.

However, in Redman's defense, he was injured for all of spring training and came back and pitched in KC without much work and thus, his first few starts were expectedly pretty bad due to not having a spring training..and then when he finally became 100% he has been pretty decent (example, in June he was 5-0 with a 3.68 ERA..pretty solid). So while he is not a great pick, I will say that he's been a lot better for us than his overall numbers indicate.

07/03/06--Minnesota Twins (45-35) vs. Kansas City Royals (27-53); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Johan Santana (9-4, 2.59) vs. Scott Elarton (3-9, 5.13)

Starting Lineups:

Twins

2B Luis Castillo (70 G, .268 BA, .327 OBP, 2 HR, 29 RBI, .668 OPS)
3B Nick Punto (58 G, .289 BA, .385 OBP, 0 HR, 11 RBI, .761 OPS)
C Joe Mauer (71 G, .392 BA, .458 OBP, 5 HR, 40 RBI, .995 OPS)
RF Michael Cuddyer (68 G, .274 BA, .372 OBP, 11 HR, 48 RBI, .891 OPS)
1B Justin Morneau (75 G, .291 BA, .344 OBP, 21 HR, 68 RBI, .916 OPS)
CF Torii Hunter (79 G, .266 BA, .345 OBP, 13 HR, 48 RBI, .789 OPS)
LF Shannon Stewart (37 G, .318 BA, .374 OBP, 2 HR, 20 RBI, .773 OPS)
DH Jason Kubel (37 G, .311 BA, .341 OBP, 6 HR, 23 RBI, .841 OPS)
SS Jason Bartlett (17 G, .328 BA, .426 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .840 OPS)

Royals

CF David DeJesus (38 G, .320 BA, .405 OBP, 3 HR, 13 RBI, .888 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (72 G, .279 BA, .314 OBP, 3 HR, 25 RBI, .695 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (61 G, .248 BA, .305 OBP, 9 HR, 40 RBI, .743 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (72 G, .288 BA, .350 OBP, 6 HR, 38 RBI, .793 OPS)
1B Tony Graffanino (55 G, .254 BA, .316 OBP, 4 HR, 27 RBI, .706 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (49 G, .260 BA, .308 OBP, 6 HR, 25 RBI, .746 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (74 G, .239 BA, .262 OBP, 4 HR, 27 RBI, .593 OPS)
C John Buck (58 G, .251 BA, .318 OBP, 7 HR, 23 RBI, .748 OPS)
DH Esteban German (53 G, .336 BA, .432 OBP, 1 HR, 11 RBI, .848 OPS)

(That's right, Emil Brown has played his way off of my "DEAD TO ME" list...for now. His defense has been better (from horrid to mediocre) and he's had a hot bat lately. I still don't think he should be on our team...but he hasn't done anything extraordinarly stupid lately...so I'll tolerate him for a little while).

07/04/06--Minnesota Twins (46-35) vs. Kansas City Royals (27-54); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Boof Bonser (WHAT THE F*CK!?!)(2-1, 4.68) vs. Jimmy Gobble (3-2, 3.67)

Boof Bonser..lol. Awesome....quote from Buddy Bell.."Boof Bonser? That's his name?? Huh...I don't think I've known anyone named Boof...I don't even think I've ever even accidentally said the word 'Boof.'

Starting Lineups:

Twins

CF Lew Ford (64 G, .215 BA, .291 OBP, 2 HR, 11 RBI, .585 OPS)
2B Nick Punto (59 G, .281 BA, .380 OBP, 0 HR, 11 RBI, .746 OPS)
C Mike Redmond (23 G, .378 BA, .387 OBP, 0 HR, 13 RBI, .832 OPS)
RF Michael Cuddyer (69 G, .274 BA, .370 OBP, 11 HR, 48 RBI, .889 OPS)
1B Justin Morneau (76 G, .298 BA, .349 OBP, 22 HR, 71 RBI, .934 OPS)
DH Torii Hunter (80 G, .264 BA, .344 OBP, 13 HR, 48 RBI, .783 OPS)
LF Shannon Stewart (38 G, .318 BA, .377 OBP, 2 HR, 20 RBI, .781 OPS)
3B Terry Tiffee (15 G, .265 BA, .342 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .783 OPS)
SS Jason Bartlett (18 G, .306 BA, .403 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .790 OPS)

Royals

LF David DeJesus (38 G, .320 BA, .410 OBP, 3 HR, 13 RBI, .900 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (73 G, .282 BA, .319 OBP, 3 HR, 25 RBI, .705 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (77 G, .274 BA, .359 OBP, 4 HR, 35 RBI, .761 OPS)
RF Emil Brown (73 G, .286 BA, .352 OBP, 6 HR, 38 RBI, .791 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (55 G, .255 BA, .335 OBP, 7 HR, 30 RBI, .791 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (50 G, .262 BA, .312 OBP, 6 HR, 26 RBI, .748 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (75 G, .239 BA, .262 OBP, 4 HR, 30 RBI, .595 OPS)
C John Buck (59 G, .246 BA, .312 OBP, 7 HR, 24 RBI, .733 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright #(10 G, .259 BA, .375 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .708 OPS)

# - numbers with Kansas City only

07/04/06--Twins 2, Royals 7

Winning Pitcher: Gobble (3-1, 3.66)
Losing Pitcher: (2-2, 5.30)


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


Game Recap: Really solid win for the Royals tonight, who continue to be a significantly better team and flat out a tough team to beat lately. Five solid innings for Gobble who finally gets a shot in the rotation, good balanced offense, sparked by the white hot David DeJesus (batting .490 over the past 11 games) who was 2 for 3 with two walks and a home run. Four shutout innings from Peralta and Dessens from the bullpen...good win. Should have won last night's game but had a real ugly inning to give it away, it's good to see that we can put that behind us and move on...whereas earlier in the year that loss might have sparked a losing streak. Good game.

When did they get Gathright Koop? And for whom?

About two weeks ago. Traded AAA pitcher J.P. Howell for him. Howell is a decent prospect...just average stuff really...could be a #4 or #5 guy in a year or so...it's a bit of a risky trade I think...if Gathright can learn to get on base more than it will be a good one as his speed is devastating....but he hasn't hit so far in his short career...though he hasn't really gotten regular playing time ever I don't think..so we'll see. At the very least he makes our outfield infinitely better with him roaming CF and forcing Emil Brown to not be in the field as much.