The Royals

[AppleJack]

I hate this team.

[EMAWmeister]

This sucks

[sys]

 

['taterblast]

never allowed myself to be optimistic about this season. feels good.

[k-state87]

I don't blame Yost too much about the bullpen because he doesn't have much to work with. Although he is a dumbass for making Davis the 8th inning set up guy, he just plain rough ridin' sucks. We got Shields for 2 years in the Myers trade & Tampa Bay not only got Wil but they got two lumps of human crap off their payroll in Elliot Johnson & Wade Davis.

I was tired of hearing the Royals have the best bullpen before the season started. Hochevar was a big loss, Luis Coleman was hurt to start this season & last year Yost didn't want to use Coleman as much even though he had an ERA & a WHIP under 1. Tim Collins has regressed the last couple of years & I have never been sold on Aaron Crow. Anytime Crow pitches he rarely has a 123 inning (his WHIP last year was 1.48), he always gives up a hit or a walk pretty much every time he pitches.

That said Dayton made the right move in bringing Duffy up to be in the pen, but this is where Yost has to get his head out of his ass & pitch Duffy later in a competitive game & not pitch him in a blow out loss. Duffy & Coleman need to switch roles with Crow & Davis but we know that won't happen.

['taterblast]

i refuse to constantly blame Yost for everything. these players simply don't produce.

[The Big Train]

[k-state87]

i refuse to constantly blame Yost for everything. these players simply don't produce.

That part is true, but Yost doesn't ever want to shake things up. Why is Butler still batting clean up? What has he done? Yost wants to keep with this lefty-righty-lefty lineup which is fine but shake it up. Move Butler down in the order or put Maxwell in as DH & see what he can do.

I just wish this team would have a true leader that would hold a players only meeting & say they are sucking & letting the fans down.

['taterblast]

i refuse to constantly blame Yost for everything. these players simply don't produce.

That part is true, but Yost doesn't ever want to shake things up. Why is Butler still batting clean up? What has he done? Yost wants to keep with this lefty-righty-lefty lineup which is fine but shake it up. Move Butler down in the order or put Maxwell in as DH & see what he can do.

I just wish this team would have a true leader that would hold a players only meeting & say they are sucking & letting the fans down.

he was adjusting the roster constantly last year and it didn't work. he's made a couple changes early on and i hate to say it, but we really are just 11 games in. you have to let a lineup prove in more than 11 games that it's going to suck before you start making big changes.

and for the record i don't think they will improve so changes will need to be made, but for now i'm not going to fault him for wanting to establish a consistent lineup.

[Dugout DickStone]

i refuse to constantly blame Yost for everything. these players simply don't produce.

That part is true, but Yost doesn't ever want to shake things up. Why is Butler still batting clean up? What has he done? Yost wants to keep with this lefty-righty-lefty lineup which is fine but shake it up. Move Butler down in the order or put Maxwell in as DH & see what he can do.

I just wish this team would have a true leader that would hold a players only meeting & say they are sucking & letting the fans down.

The players play grab ass when they are losing to the Twins.  Everyone of these guys knows they will move on except Moose who will be out of baseball in a few years

[Powercat Posse]

Davis has had 6 appearences.  4 of them he did this ...
1) 2 walks 2) walk and hit a batter 3) walk and hit a batter 4) walk and throwing error . Cant do this when you are pitching 1 inning

Herrera has a WHIP of 1.62.  Collins walked 4 batter in his brief 1.0 innings of work this year
Crow walks the first 2 batters he faced today. Those runners scored the tying and winning runs.   First game of the year, he inherited 2 runners of Sheilds and allowed both of them to score after giving up a triple.  Those 2 runs were the tying runs and KC eventually lost

[slimz]

I would trade moose for 2012-2013 Miguel Cabrera

At this point, I'd trade him for a mint box of 88 Topps.   (And you know that gum is super mummified by now so you can't even figure that into the equation.

Hmm. I might go for the 87 Topps with that classy wood grain.

[PIPE]

The Royals just find ways to lose

This organization is a mess.   

[Dugout DickStone]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

[ksupamplemousse]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

[bones129]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find the right GM or the right field manager. Glass' son, who had no previous experience in running basbeall teams that I know of, seems to be in charge. On the other hand, Mr. Kauffman put much of his personal money into the team because he loved the Royals and the town, and that made such a difference. It was when the Kauffmans' role decreased that the Royals went south. I don't sense that the Glass family has Kauffman-like committment, or anything approaching it. That said, I understand the Glass family may be willing to sell the team to an entity that is willing to keep the team in KC. Maybe the Brett Family (I mentioned that in an earlier thread) could put their band back together, with a few more local investors, and give this team back to KC?

[jtksu]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

[bones129]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show. May have worked with the Yankees, but won't work here.

[jtksu]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show.

crap.   At least Jones throw money around.

[bones129]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show.

crap.   At least Jones throw money around.

And it hasn't worked for Jones because true football people aren't making the critical decisions.

[jtksu]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show.

crap.   At least Jones throw money around.

And it hasn't worked for Jones because true football people aren't making the critical decisions.

Wasn't arguing that.  Also, why the word filter?

[bones129]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show.

crap.   At least Jones throw money around.

And it hasn't worked for Jones because true football people aren't making the critical decisions.

Wasn't arguing that.  Also, why the word filter?

Word filter?

[jtksu]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

Kinda different situations but I believe the Dallas Cowboys have proven that a bad owner can taint everything.   I don't know the Royals sitch well,  is it a bad owner who won't spend or a bad owner that won't spend and tries to run the team?

It's an owner who won't spend the necessary money and appoints family members with no baseball experience (his son) to run the show.

crap.   At least Jones throw money around.

And it hasn't worked for Jones because true football people aren't making the critical decisions.

Wasn't arguing that.  Also, why the word filter?

Word filter?

For curse words.   Yours appears to be on.   I didn't say crap, I said crap.   No big deal anyway, I was just curious.

[TownieCat]

I'm a Cowboys fan and a Royals fan. Been a lot of  the last two pages. The situations are very different, but the results are more or less the same.

[Dugout DickStone]

No sporting organization needs a #bid like the Royals

It's hard to be too excited about #bid for the Royals. We have a shitty TV contract that is going to limit the amount of money available to whoever we bring in to be the next general manager. Obviously the right guy could succeed regardless, but I don't have much faith that the Glass family can find that guy.

There is a cockload of money in MLB and the Royals are not at all hurting.  They could spend easily but the Glass family simply doesn't care about winning, doesn't care about be embarrassed and doesn't care about anything but making money.