3-0 Royals ahead after 3 innings. So....we only need 11 more runs before our lead is safe.

douggggggieeee

5-4 Boston...thanks in large part to one of the cheapest hits I've seen in a while by Ortiz...bad break for us there. Now we gotta face Papelbon...lol. Good luck us...oh well. They're that good for a reason, at least we hung with them pretty fairly at their place.

Was it a duck snort? I hate cheap hits..

I'd expect the Sox to take two of three. They aren't playing their best baseball, but this last series aside, their tough at home. Winning the first one changes my perception a bit. In the last two games, you have to face Lester, who's been supurb when not walking guys, and Beckett. Beckett pitches like Jose Contreras some nights and Jose Canseco others. At home, he's been stellar....again, last series aside.

Snyder's pitched way better than that ERA indicates. He pitched a decent 5 IP, 3 R game that we won, and started the last game excellently with four scoreless. However, the fifth he got into trouble and with some tough luck, ended up letting in a bunch of runs. Right now I don't hate trotting him out there, but don't like the idea of him being any long term solution.

I missed the game (I'll be watching the replay), but it looks like it was a good one. Wakefield's back has been acting up, so this may have been the best shot for the Royals.

Just a chopper that took a redonkulously high hop over Minky's head..set up the winning run perfectly. It isn't the reason we lost..but it sure was a bad break.

07/21/06-- California Angels (48-47) vs. Kansas City Royals (33-62); 7:05 CT

Starting Pitchers: Bartolo Colon (1-4, 4.56) vs. Runelvyz Hernandez (1-4, 7.44)

Angels

CF Chone Figgins (93 G, .268 BA, .336 OBP, 5 HR, 32 RBI, .698 OPS)
2B Maicer Izturus (43 G, .288 BA, .373 OBP, 1 HR, 13 RBI, .738 OPS)
SS Orlando Cabrera (91 G, .292 BA, .354 OBP, 7 HR, 50 RBI, .786 OPS)
RF Vladimir Guerrero (93 G, .320 BA, .359 OBP, 20 HR, 76 RBI, .890 OPS)
DH Garret Anderson (82 G, .265 BA, .310 OBP, 8 HR, 50 RBI, .719 OPS)
LF Juan Rivera (62 G, .290 BA, .347 OBP, 14 HR, 43 RBI, .890 OPS)
C Mike Napoli (54 G, .271 BA, .408 OBP, 12 HR, 29 RBI, .970 OPS)
1B Kendry Morales (48 G, .250 BA, .309 OBP, 5 HR, 21 RBI, .712 OPS)
2B Adam Kennedy (87 G, .262 BA, .315 OBP, 2 HR, 33 RBI, .675 OPS)

Royals

LF David DeJesus (53 G, .303 BA, .386 OBP, 4 HR, 26 RBI, .836 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (80 G, .286 BA, .327 OBP, 3 HR, 28 RBI, .724 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (87 G, .283 BA, .359 OBP, 4 HR, 42 RBI, .772 OPS)
RF DEAD TO ME (86 G, .275 BA, .337 OBP, 6 HR, 47 RBI, .749 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (68 G, .262 BA, .350 OBP, 8 HR, 31 RBI, .800 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (64 G, .269 BA, .337 OBP, 9 HR, 35 RBI, .817 OPS)
SS Tony Graffanino (67 G, .271 BA, .345 OBP, 5 HR, 31 RBI, .756 OPS)
C John Buck (71 G, .237 BA, .301 OBP, 8 HR, 32 RBI, .703 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (21 G, .230 BA, .368 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .664 OPS)

Royals taking it to the Anaheim of Californial Angels again tonight....8-1 after 7.

Oh, but I forgot that we are horribly below average at every position, every player sucks so badly and we can never actually outplay any team...so I guess the Angels should be ashamed that they are losing and etc. etc...

07/21/06 -- Los Angeles/Sacramento/LAX Angels 3, Royals 8

Winning Pitcher: Runelvyz Hernandez (2-4, 6.75)
Losing Pitcher: Bartolo Colon (1-5. 4.55)

Box Score: http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/NASApp/ml..._1&c_id=mlb


Game Recap: Kansas Sh*tty embarrasses themselves again, with another perfomance that just proves that we are nothing more than a minor league team. Oh yeah, that's right, we whipped the red-hot (formerly) Angels for the second game in a row. Fluke I guess.

07/22/06--Sancramento Angels (48-48) vs. Kansas City Royals (34-62); 6:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Kelvim Escobar (6-9, 3.88) vs. Luke Hudson (2-3, 5.40)

Starting Lineups:

Angels

CF Reggie Willits (2 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)
3B Maicer Izturis (44 G, .287 BA, .370 OBP, 2 HR, 15 RBI, .755 OPS)
SS Orlando Cabrera (92 G, .289 BA, .351 OBP, 7 HR, 50 RBI, .778 OPS)
RF Vladimir Guerrero (94 G, .320 BA, .361 OBP, 20 HR, 76 RBI, .889 OPS)
DH Garret Anderson (83 G, .266 BA, .312 OBP, 8 HR, 50 RBI, .720 OPS)
LF Juan Rivera (63 G, .289 BA, .346 OBP, 14 HR, 43 RBI, .887 OPS)
1B Kendry Morales (49 G, .244 BA, .303 OBP, 5 HR, 21 RBI, .697 OPS)
2B Adam Kennedy (88 G, .263 BA, .315 OBP, 2 HR, 33 RBI, .679 OPS)
C Jose Molina (45 G, .227 BA, .271 OBP, 2 HR, 13 RBI, .605 OPS)

Royals

LF David DeJesus (55 G, .304 BA, .388 OBP, 5 HR, 29 RBI, .851 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (81 G, .289 BA, .329 OBP, 4 HR, 31 RBI, .736 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (88 G, .281 BA, .360 OBP, 4 HR, 42 RBI, .771 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (69 G, .262 BA, .348 OBP, 8 HR, 31 RBI, .794 OPS)
3B Tony Graffanino (68 G, .267 BA, .343 OBP, 5 HR, 31 RBI, .749 OPS)
RF Shane Costa (39 G, .248 BA, .280 OBP, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .664 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (85 G, .246 BA, .273 OBP, 6 HR, 37 RBI, .628 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (22 G, .231 BA, .363 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .686 OPS)
C Paul Phillips (3 G, .222 BA, .222 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .556 OPS)

3-3 in the bottom of the 9th..Gathright on 1st with one out..DeJesus up. Good game either way...got another pretty solid starting effort.

07/23/06 -- Fransisco of Anaheim Angels (49-48) vs. Kansas City Royals (34-63); 1:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Jered Weaver (6-0, 1.12) vs. Brandon Duckworth (1-3, 4.78)

Starting Lineups:

Angels

CF Chone Figgins (95 G, .265 BA, .336 OBP, 5 HR, 32 RBI, .696 OPS)
1B Howie Kendrick (13 G, .216 BA, .293 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .590 OPS)
SS Orlando Cabrera (93 G, .286 BA, .349 OBP, 7 HR, 50 RBI, .771 OPS)
RF Vladimir Guerrero (95 G, .316 BA, .357 OBP, 20 HR, 77 RBI, .880 OPS)
DH Garret Anderson (84 G, .263 BA, .309 OBP, 8 HR, 50 RBI, .712 OPS)
LF Juan Rivera (64 G, .284 BA, .340 OBP, 14 HR, 43 RBI, .872 OPS)
C Mike Napoli (56 G, .270 BA, .405 OBP, 12 HR, 29 RBI, .959 OPS)
2B Adam Kennedy (89 G, .264 BA, .318 OBP, 2 HR, 33 RBI, .684 OPS)
3B Robbie Quinlan (47 G, .298 BA, .312 OBP, 5 HR, 16 RBI, .791 OPS)

Royals

CF David DeJesus (55 G, .311 BA, .392 OBP, 5 HR, 29 RBI, .858 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (82 G, .284 BA, .324 OBP, 4 HR, 31 RBI, .725 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (89 G, .280 BA, .358 OBP, 4 HR, 43 RBI, .768 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (70 G, .263 BA, .354 OBP, 8 HR, 31 RBI, .798 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (66 G, .265 BA, .335 OBP, 9 HR, 36 RBI, .806 OPS)
RF DEAD TO ME (87 G, .278 BA, .339 OBP, 6 HR, 48 RBI, .758 OPS)
LF Shane Costa (40 G, .254 BA, .285 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .669 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (86 G, .242 BA, .269 OBP, 6 HR, 37 RBI, .618 OPS)
C John Buck (72 G, .232 BA, .296 OBP, 8 HR, 32 RBI, .691 OPS)

Wow...what an amazing steal the Royals just got away with. We trade away Elmer Dessens, an average relief pitcher (4.50 ERA this year...) who is 35 years old and get in return a 29 year old starter in Odalis Perez with a career ERA of 4.24 and two minor league pitching prospects.......wow...I can't imagine what the Dodgers could POSSIBLY thinking with this trade......Elmer is okay...but giving away a decent starter (though of course he's been bad this year) and two prospects (Blake Johnson...a 21 year old decent prospect..and Julio Pimentel..another okay prospect)......I'm not saying any of these three guys will be great pitchers at any point....but even if only one turns into a servicable pitcher...this is a great trade for KC.

The MacDougal trade was also pretty good for us.

Royals beat the Orioles 7-5...led by our horribly below average 24 year old third baseman and his two HRs and 5 RBI...our horribly below average catcher, our crappy closer who has a decent at best ceiling/potential..and the rest of what makes us Kansas Sh*tty.

Koop, don't forget that LA also gave us $8 mil to offset Perez's salary for the next 2 years. He's owed the pro-rated amount of his $7 mil salary this year and $7.25 mil next year. So we're basically getting him for free. I guess LA really, really, really wanted to get rid of him.

I'm not sold on the Graffanino trade. De La Rosa has been horrible during his career with 74 BB in 95.1 career innings and a career WHIP of 1.92! Yeah, he's supposedly doing better in the minors now, but those are some pretty bad stats. I guess the plus is that Graffanino wasn't even a starter and we got anything at all for him.

Getting De La Rosa for Graffy is a great trade..regardless of whether he ever works out. We get pitching potential/organizational depth for almost nothing....and De La Rosa supposedly has sick stuff..so if he can learn to harness it a bit..it will be a major steal. It's no certainty that he'll work out...but there is almost zero risk...as we lose nothing whatsoever.

..and yeah, this is KowboyKoop.

why the alias?

Just a retarded joke account

I thought you had finally cracked and were finally ashamed to be associated with the Royals. jk

I purchased my tickets tonight for the 4th and 5th against the Twins at Kauffman.

No way....Royals are on the way up. The worst years are over.

if you saw, not only am I seeing the Royals, Im going to omaha the day before to see their AAA club

Awesome...but the AA club is the club to see in our system. AAA club is alright..but the AA club is loaded with some hitting prospects......hope you have fun though....assuming you can still have fun during a Royals victory...

I'll be sure to die a little inside watching the Royals play. Were going to AAA cause its so close, it works out so well

Royals win second straight on the road against Texas. Jorge De La Rosa impressive in his first start for us..I can't believe we got a young starter with such nasty stuff for..for..Tony Graffanino. Wow..thanks Milwaukee. I guess we owe you one...lol...what could they possibly be thinking. Tony Graffanino?!?!?

Oh yeah..I also forgot to mention that all of our young players are horribly horribly below average, especially Mark Teahen..and we are at least 4 years away from ever coming close to playing .500 ball..what a joke we are.

Well I'm glad that you can admit th....wait, your expressing sarcasm.

Yes, I am expressing sarcasm when saying that 24 year old Mark Teahen and his .860 OPS and good defense and pretty decent power are horribly below average. Also, yes, our .500 record over the past couple months is not to be noticed, only our horrible record when we were a pretty injured ballclub, that is all that counts. Forgot all our prospects, we will never be good. Alex Gordon and Billy Butler, overrated.

Would also like to point out that Mark Teahen has the 3rd highest OPS of all AL third baseman..and is closing in on A-Rod...and over a full season..his current numbers project him to hit about 25-30 HRs.....100+ RBI...24 years old..man does that guy suck.

07/30/06 -- Kansas City Royals (37-66) vs. Texas Rangers (51-53); 7:05 CT

Starting Pitchers: Mark Redman (7-5, 5.03) vs. John Koronka (6-6, 5.02)

Starting Lineups:

Royals

LF David DeJesus (61 G, .298 BA, .375 OBP, 5 HR, 31 RBI, .823 OPS)
DH Esteban German (66 G, .322 BA, .426 OBP, 1 HR, 12 RBI, .811 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (88 G, .286 BA, .328 OBP, 4 HR, 32 RBI, .731 OPS)
RF DEAD TO ME (93 G, .277 BA, .344 OBP, 6 HR, 51 RBI, .758 OPS)
1B Matt Stairs (76 G, .260 BA, .353 OBP, 8 HR, 32 RBI, .779 OPS)
C John Buck (77 G, .244 BA, .305 OBP, 8 HR, 36 RBI, .703 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (72 G, .276 BA, .353 OBP, 12 HR, 45 RBI, .859 OPS)
SS DEAD TO ME (90 G, .247 BA, .273 OBP, 6 HR, 40 RBI, .622 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (28 G, .221 BA, .340 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .631 OPS)

Rangers

CF Gary Matthews Jr. (91 G, .320 BA, .372 OBP, 10 HR, 49 RBI, .877 OPS)
DH Michael Young (104 G, .308 BA, .351 OBP, 8 HR, 67 RBI, .793 OPS)
LF Carlos Lee (2 G, .625 BA, .667 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 1.417 OPS)
1B Mark Teixiera (104 G, .282 BA, .366 OBP, 14 HR, 62 RBI, .832 OPS)
C Gerald Laird (41 G, .347 BA, .380 OBP, 5 HR, 15 RBI, .958 OPS)
3B Hank Blalock (100 G, .279 BA, .340 OBP, 12 HR, 65 RBI, .758 OPS)
2B Ian Kinsler (63 G, .292 BA, .358 OBP, 7 HR, 28 RBI, .825 OPS)
SS Mark DeRosa (80 G, .308 BA, .364 OBP, 7 HR, 36 RBI, .837 OPS)
RF Nelson Cruz (2 G, .250 BA, .250 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .500 OPS)

Teahan, thats the guy in Moneyball, correct? How'd he get moved from the A's to the Royals?

The Beltran trade. We got Teahen, our starting 3B, Buck, our starting C, and Mike Wood, a relief pitcher for us. All young, all decent potential (with perhaps great potential from Teahen). You remember this trade, right?? The one that is nationally known as one of the worst trades of all time, right? You know, because Beltran is so good and Teahen, Buck, and Wood are, and I quote numerous sources here: "completely worthless players who will never amount to much." Look it up...that's pretty much what everyone has written about the trade, up until Teahen started "out of nowhere" playing well.

....basically....everyone thinks that just because our young prospects haven't immediately become good players..that they all suck and thus we got the short end of the trade....but in reality...we got three significant players in exchange for a guy that we 100% had to get rid of.....all three are fairly young and have at least decent potential to get better..and as of now they are all okay ballplayers.

Edit: ..and yeah, he's the Moneyball guy.

I don't see how that can qualify for "worst trade ever" when, like you said, Beltran HAD to go. Worst trade ever=AJ Pierzynski for Nathan, Liriano, and the Boof

I don't see how either...but not surprisingly...I hear it all the time.

The worst trade ever was Scott Kazmir for Victor Zambrano.

07/31/06-- Chicago White Sox (61-42) vs. Kansas City Royals (37-67); 7:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Jose Contreras (9-3, 3.52) vs. Runelvyz Hernandez (2-5, 6.80)

Starting Lineups:

White Sox

LF Scott Podsednik (95 G, .270 BA, .344 OBP, 3 HR, 37 RBI, .734 OPS)
2B Alex Cintron (56 G, .279 BA, .316 OBP, 2 HR, 20 RBI, .679 OPS)
C AJ Pierzynski (91 G, .319 BA, .360 OBP, 8 HR, 36 RBI, .804 OPS)
1B Paul Konerko (98 G, .299 BA, .374 OBP, 26 HR, 75 RBI, .932 OPS)
RF Jermaine Dye (92 G, .319 BA, .395 OBP, 28 HR, 76 RBI, 1.028 OPS)
1B Ross Gload (46 G, .286 BA, .300 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .690 OPS)
3B Joe Crede (98 G, .290 BA, .326 OBP, 21 HR, 69 RBI, .849 OPS)
SS Juan Uribe (89 G, .248 BA, .271 OBP, 13 HR, 52 RBI, .712 OPS)
CF Brian Anderson (82 G, .213 BA, .286 OBP, 6 HR, 25 RBI, .639 OPS)

Royals

LF David DeJesus (62 G, .302 BA, .379 OBP, 5 HR, 31 RBI, .831 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (89 G, .286 BA, .327 OBP, 4 HR, 32 RBI, .728 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (73 G, .275 BA, .351 OBP, 12 HR, 45 RBI, .857 OPS)
DH DEAD TO ME (94 G, .276 BA, .343 OBP, 7 HR, 52 RBI, .763 OPS)
RF Shane Costa (46 G, .266 BA, .296 OBP, 3 HR, 16 RBI, .705 OPS)
1B Esteban German (67 G, .327 BA, .431 OBP, 1 HR, 12 RBI, .819 OPS)
CF Joey Gathright (29 G, .211 BA, .327 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .605 OPS)
C John Buck (78 G, .240 BA, .300 OBP, 8 HR, 36 RBI, .692 OPS
SS Andres Blanco (9 G, .280 BA, .357 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .717 OPS)

Worse trade ever = Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio

The awesome walk, bloop single, broken bat infield single combo to open the game for Chicago.....wow...do they really need luck on their side as well??? They are good enough as is.....

...and we strike out Dye on three pitches...but then we find out that there is a delayed call balk on our guy..WTF!??!

Alright, game over the umps say. Everyone go home...gotta make sure the ChiSox blow this open early.....2nd balk call already...even though his delivery is the same every single time...they decide to call two balks...simply wow.

...and another perfectly placed soft hit infield single for the ChiSox....how lucky can a team possibly be. Score 3 runs on three poorly hit balls and two bullsh*t balks....pitiful.

I missed most of the first so I can't comment on the balks.

Two crap hits so far. but Gruds has killed us all year.

The balks weren't balks...don't worry...two pretty bad calls. Royals announcers went over the replay over and over to try and find them..but unsuccessful.

Also...two crap hits for the Royals, or the ChiSox?? The ChiSox had three...Emil Brown's hit was crap for us..but Grudz's was a smash right through the hole. The ChiSox hits were slow rollers that didn't have enough steam to leave the infield. Be objective here.

ouch Contreras looks like shit. Gruds has hit us all year but if you call allt hose sox hits dinky then I would call Gruds like that. Contreras does not look like his old self after losing his last three...

Whew nice and necessary DP

You said you didn't even see the 1st inning..yet you are comparing a ground ball that rolls all the way to the RF to two ground balls that did not leave the infield?? Come on....you said you didn't see them.....now you are saying they are same when they oh so clearly were not?? Grudz's hit was a solid single to RF...the two ChiSox hits were ground balls that bounced 10 times each and didn't leave the infield..but were just perfectly placed. Don't be blind.

At least the ChiSox earned their two runs this inning. Fat Fatterson sucks like a mofo..no one even knows why this fool is on our team.

bwahahahahha....taste of own medicine...

I was in and out of the kitchen and did not see some of the plays. I happened to not see the balks. It appeared to me that Grud's hit didn't look like anything special. I am half blind right now trying to get these contacts in but... Wow we are hammering Hernandez. First Cintron, then Dye, then Crede.. Time to take him out.

Lol..the time to take Hernandez out was 2004. He, at no point, has ever shown he can be a major league pitcher. He's one of the last of "Baird's guys" and hopefully tonight has pitched his way off the team. Amazing how we've held the ChiSox down immediately after he left....funny thing that. Too bad one player had to play so badly to ruin the game for the rest of the team..everyone else on our team has been fine...but Hernandez's sh*ttyness prevails. Oh well...it'll be interesting to see what Perez can do tomorrow.

It will also be interesting to see Buehrle shut down a team for once in a while. Yeah Hernandez has certainly lost lots of velocity after his injury. Good luck tomorrow and Wednesday.

You're just assuming Buehrle is going to shut us down???? I know you don't pay much attention..but for about the past two months now we've been averaging about 5.5+ runs a game or something like that...and your best pitcher even gave up 4 to us......and Buehrle has been struggling....I know our record is bad...but we've been playing near .500 ball for a couple months now and aren't nearly as bad as you think. Buehrle may pitch well and hold us down and maybe he won't...it isn't just a given.

I think I may have typed what I meant incorrectly. I meant to say " I hope Buehrle can actually shut down or not suck against another team". I do realize that the Royals have had one of the better if not best offense in the last few months. Sorry if this changes your view but it was a typo.


FMP

Fair enough. I believe you. Hey, you know I gotta defend my team every chance I get...I know we suck...but when we do do something right..I gotta make sure we don't get criticized for that too, that's all. No harm, no foul.

Also..it will be interesting to see Odalis Perez tonight....

I understand. So far Perez has some nice stuff but can be a little wild (aka walks, throws lots of pitches). That HR by Sanders was CRUSHED. Too bad Tada couldn't field that groundball to end the inning before the HR.

Perez is decent. Don't expect anything more..or anything less. Decent is a good step for us...our GM has done a great job just stockpiling guys with pretty decent potential (Perez not included in this group...)...so that's good.

Say what you wish about how crappy some/a lot of our players are...but one thing is for sure...Mark Teahen is emerging as a very very good hitter...24 years old and his OPS threatening to crack the .900 mark.....that's good. Funny how Teahen is so "worthless" and "useless" according to...to..well, pretty much anyone else.

Stupid bloop hit, I'm surprised that you guys didn't score another to take the lead. The Sox luck with bloop hits this year has been horrible. Buehrle pitched pretty well besides the one HR in the first. He only gave up four hits which is unlike him. It's too bad he gets a ND for that. Our bullpen is so shaky and it will need change if we want a chance in the playoffs.

The Royals certainly look like they have a lot of good hitters but they really need some pitching. Once they get a few more pitchers I think they will certainly improve, but what do I know?